GOD -

***Nate*** · #31 05-28-2007, 02:40 AM

I've split off the crusades discussion that was building here to a different thread. It can be found here.

OANST · #32 05-28-2007, 09:28 AM

This is pointless. We all know Patrick is a man.

Patrick Vykkers · #33 05-28-2007, 02:56 PM

Just OOC, what gives you the idea I have a big ego? I don't think I do.

I like to state I'm Allah, but I don't seriously believe it.

Strike Witch · #34 05-30-2007, 01:00 AM

I believe it, Allah.

*prays in PVs' direction*

Okay, so I think the Abrahamic God is a man, because there is a lot of pointless posturing and ego-trips in the OT. Yay.

(Burial Grounds)

Patrick Vykkers · #35 05-30-2007, 03:41 AM

As Allah, I give you a command;

THOU SHALT NOT BEG ANYMORE FOR THE ALLAHDAMN BURIAL GROUNDS UNLESS THOU ADD IT TO THY SIG!

Wait, wouldn't this be a demonic command! Better call Battle Pope.

You are correct in saying my deity is canonically male. Thank you.

Strike Witch · #36 05-30-2007, 04:26 AM

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As Allah, I give you a command;

THOU SHALT NOT BEG ANYMORE FOR THE ALLAHDAMN BURIAL GROUNDS UNLESS THOU ADD IT TO THY SIG!

Wait, wouldn't this be a demonic command! Better call Battle Pope.

You are correct in saying my deity is canonically male. Thank you.

Then use yer Godly powers to giveth it to me, Allah.

Bullet Magnet · #37 06-06-2007, 04:53 AM

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The Bible says that God made man (Adam) in his own image.
Woman was made later, using one of Adam's ribs.
So yeah, God's male.

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Well, one interpretation of genesis has Adam created as a hermaphrodite, then the female side removed later to create Eve.

I always thought that the "own image" bit was creating a lucid, sapient being like Himself. I wouldn't have thought that an omnipresent, non-physical being doesn't have an "image" per se.

But we now know that that is an attribute granted to many other organisms in the animal Kingdom, to varying degrees.

***Nate*** · #38 06-06-2007, 05:57 PM

Oh, yes. I agree completely. I was just mentioning an interesting opinion there.

I would have said 'Devil's advocate but that would have been far too ironic.

Nemo · #39 06-07-2007, 12:13 AM

Edit:
In the bible, god refers to itself as "us," indicating that it is, infact, several gods.

26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

Edit:
Bah, then it goes to "I."
Screw it, I'm going back to agnosticism.

***Nate*** · #40 06-07-2007, 07:35 AM

From memory, at that stage he'd just created the Angels (I'm not sure if that's in the text or if it's commentary) and he's supposedly talking to them.

Infection Form 143 · #41 06-07-2007, 01:43 PM

God is described in the bible to be all. Which means God's gender remains unspecified. They do call God Him(note the capitol 'H', it is a name), as well as the Father(again capitalized).

God is everything, and is not to be labeled.

Patrick Vykkers · #42 06-07-2007, 02:26 PM

In the true original texts (Greek and Codex Vaticanus) it isn't. Greek has no lower or capital disctinction, and I'm pretty sure the Codex doesn't either, as it's a relatively recent convention.

Jacob · #43 06-08-2007, 03:08 AM

I'd say he was a Man considering what it says in the Bible. Howeve, i s'pose he could be sexless.

All this "He could be a She" idiocy is there just to satiate the idiots vying for 'Women's lib'.

Patrick Vykkers · #44 06-09-2007, 12:53 AM

Jacob, I'm so glad you're back I could marry you.

Arxryl · #45 06-09-2007, 08:38 AM

Meh... I pretty much agree with Jacob. Everywhere in the Bible it refers to God as a "he" not a "she", however they may call God a man in the Bible for lack of a better word, symbolic purposes, a more emotional drive.... the list could be quite endless.

So I voted for God being a Man.