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07-19-2010, 09:36 PM
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I would prefer that God was referred to as she.. <.<
You should investigate the World Mission Society Church of God. They believe in God the Mother together with the better known God the Father and God the Son. I believe the logic goes something along like this... "The bible refers to God as 'He' and 'Father'. In our world, anything that has a father also has a mother. Therefore there must be a mother god as well." This vaguely misses the point that ancient (and modern) Hebrew does not have gender neutral pronouns. There is not even an equivalent of 'it' - inanimate objects are given gender and are referred to as 'he' or 'she'. There is also no gender neutral term equivalent to 'parent'. So what else could they use to refer to God?

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why do ppl think god exists? where is the proof where is the picture where is he why doesnt he show up,i dont belive in god becouse i know that the universe became with math and chemistry,and humans evolved from microbes that landed on earth billions of years ago? so where is this god?where did he came from? how did he appear in the first place? anyone got an answer?
Okay, how about this; with all your math and chemistry, where did the universe come from? What existed the moment before the big bang? Scientists discussing such matters are acting on just as much faith as priests and rabbis.

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cheap rip off from an article on wikihow, but it sounds very rational to me.
Yes, the probability of life evolving from scratch is freakishly low. On the other hand, there are an estimated 9 billion trillion stars stars in the observable universe, which means that there are probably, if not trillions, of planets with the necessary conditions for life, which gives plenty of room for freakishly low probabilities of events to occur.

You may ask yourself "But what are the chances of such an unlikely series of things to happen to lead to the point where we're having this discussion?" The answer to that, of course, is that the only way that we could have this discussion is if those events had occurred, thus making it retroactively possible.
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