# GOD is not a girl **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 15, 1999, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-is-not-a-girl/2113 "1999-08-15T18:06:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 1999, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-is-not-a-girl/2113/41 "1999-08-22T15:27:00Z")
> [@](#): > > According to a best-selling book on the subject, GOD created man in his own image…woman came later as an afterthought and was created from the rib of a man. So how could GOD possibly be a woman? > [@](#): > > Besides, as I stated above, GOD created man in his own image according to what I’ve read. Etc etc etc \NEWS FLASH!!!\ In today’s late-breaking news, this just arrived on my desk: it seems that there just might be … let me make sure I’m reading this correctly… yes, it says there might be OTHER religions out there, besides Christianity! It also says that many people may have their own ideas about god separate from any established religion. Wow. Imagine that! Now back to your scheduled thread… * * * **\>^,^\<** “Cluemobile? You’ve got a pickup…” OpalCat’s site: [http://fathom.org/opalcat](http://fathom.org/opalcat) The Teeming Millions Homepage: [fathom.org/teemingmillions](http://fathom.org/teemingmillions) ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 1999, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-is-not-a-girl/2113/42 "1999-08-22T15:32:00Z")
OpalCat For Goddess in 2000! ---
**Author:** ![moriah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@moriah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moriah)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 1999, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-is-not-a-girl/2113/43 "1999-08-22T18:41:00Z")
C#3 posted in his cocksure manner: > [@](#): > > I’m not religious, but I can tell you that if a GOD exists, it’s not a girl! The pretentious twit further trolled: > [@](#): > > According to a best-selling book on the subject, GOD created man in his own image…woman came later as an afterthought and was created from the rib of a man. C#3, if you’re “not religious”, then why are you quoting the bible as a source? Wouldn’t you have to be religious to use that as proof? Also, you need to actually open it up and read what the bible says: > [@](#): > > So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he _ **them.** _ (Gen 1:27, KJV, emphasis added) ‘Man’ refers to the human race. So does ‘him’, the pronoun for ‘man’ (in English, we would use the plural, but Hebrew uses the singular as part of their idiomatic expression). The author then specifies that ‘man’ (the human race) is made into two genders, and refers to the two genders in the plural, using ‘them.’ Therefore, the argument that God is male because he made ‘man’ in his image is fallacious. The author is clearly using the generic ‘man’ which is male and female. **They** are in God’s image. Now, being the trolling jerk that you are, you will undoubtedly rely on the Christian belief (though you’re not religious, you lying sack) of the divinity of Jesus to prove that God is male. Now just because God became enfleshed (incarnated) as a male human, doesn’t prove that God is a male. You need a body to be male. God had to pick a male or female body. Just because he picked a male gender doesn’t mean that God in God’s self is male. Jesus says in that same book: > [@](#): > > And Jesus answering said unto them, “The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage: But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage. Neither can they die any more for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.” (Luke 20: 34-36, KJV) Jesus is saying that there is no marriage and the sexual pairing that it implies in our resurrected bodies. It is almost as if we will become genderless, or transcend gender in heaven – just like God or the angels. In fact, one can argue that the risen Christ transcends gender as St. Paul implies: > [@](#): > > For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. (Gal 3:27-28, KJV) And, if you’re going to use religious belief (of which you claim to have none, but you nevertheless want to argue belief, you troublemaking dolt) to claim that God is male, let’s check in with the official position of the largest Christian denomination, Roman Catholicism in _The Catechism of the Catholic Church_: > [@](#): > > III. “MALE AND FEMALE HE CREATED THEM” > > Equality and difference willed by God > > 369 Man and woman have been created, which is to say, willed by God: on the one hand, in perfect equality as human persons; on the other, in their respective beings as man and woman. “Being man” or “being woman” is a reality which is good and willed by God: man and woman possess an inalienable dignity which comes to them immediately from God their Creator.[240] Man and woman are both with one and the same dignity “in the image of God”. In their “being-man” and “being-woman”, they reflect the Creator’s wisdom and goodness. > > 370 In no way is God in man’s image. He is neither man nor woman. God is pure spirit in which there is no place for the difference between the sexes. But the respective “perfections” of man and woman reflect > something of the infinite perfection of God: those of a mother and those of a father and husband.[241] > > [240] Cf. Gen 2:7, 22. > [241] Cf. Is 49:14-15; 66: 13; Ps 131:2-3; Hos 11:1-4; Jer 3:4- 19. C#3, if you were religious, it would be a scandal. ---
**Author:** ![GOD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/34f0e0/32.png) [@GOD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GOD)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 1999, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-is-not-a-girl/2113/44 "1999-08-23T02:49:00Z")
You folks are beginning to use your heads! I knew there was a reason I had you evolve… ---
**Author:** ![GOD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/34f0e0/32.png) [@GOD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GOD)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 1999, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-is-not-a-girl/2113/45 "1999-08-23T02:53:00Z")
BTW, I wouldn’t use “best-selling” as a criterion for authoritative wisdom. The best-selling periodical is TV Guide. ---
**Author:** ![BenDover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c77e96/32.png) [@BenDover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BenDover)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 1999, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-is-not-a-girl/2113/46 "1999-08-23T03:18:00Z")
“BTW, I wouldn’t use “best-selling” as a criterion for authoritative wisdom. The best-selling periodical is TV Guide.” Certainly my choice for authoritative wisdom! ---
**Author:** ![Contestant\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ce7236/32.png) [@Contestant\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contestant_3)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 1999, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-is-not-a-girl/2113/47 "1999-08-23T03:21:00Z")
Bite me Moriah. GOD is a man…he’s TennHippie and he lives of course in Tennessee. P.S. I’ve got your “cocksure” right here! * * * Contestant #3 ---
**Author:** ![GOD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/34f0e0/32.png) [@GOD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GOD)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 1999, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-is-not-a-girl/2113/48 "1999-08-23T05:37:00Z")
Question everything. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 1999, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-is-not-a-girl/2113/49 "1999-08-24T05:09:00Z")
Now I know how Brian felt. Brian: “I’m NOT the Messiah, I’m NOT the Messiah!” voice in crowd: “Only the TRUE Messiah would deny that he is the Messiah.” Brian: “All right, then. I AM the Messiah!” Multitude: “HE **IS** THE MESSIAH!” ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 1999, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-is-not-a-girl/2113/50 "1999-08-31T18:10:00Z")
I dunno 'bout you, but one day MINDING my own business eating lunch in a crowded deli, I overheard something really funny, sexist and racist. I didn’t say it…don’t flame me, I’m just sharing what made me spit out my drink. “I’m convinced that God is a black woman on her first day on the job off of welfare.” ---
**Author:** ![Mojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Mojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mojo)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 1999, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-is-not-a-girl/2113/51 "1999-08-31T19:28:00Z")
Am I the only one bothered by the fact that, according to the new e-mail addy, GOD is a AOL user? ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 1999, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-is-not-a-girl/2113/52 "1999-08-31T20:32:00Z")
Mojo…that’s OK. Remember, He checked out Sodom first, too! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 1999, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-is-not-a-girl/2113/53 "1999-09-01T03:00:00Z")
Can we then hope for the results? :). ---
**Author:** ![Eissclam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/2acd7d/32.png) [@Eissclam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eissclam)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 1999, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-is-not-a-girl/2113/54 "1999-09-01T13:13:00Z")
Hey TennHippie – I just noticed that you are from K-town. I’m an Oak Ridge boy myself. If you are, as C#3 contends, God, I am glad to see that God is a Vol. Eissclam ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 1999, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-is-not-a-girl/2113/55 "1999-09-01T15:51:00Z")
GOD (the poster) said: > [@](#): > > I throw contradictory messages out there now and then, just to see what you folks will do with them. Just like your predecessor? Must be it goes with the name! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![GOD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/34f0e0/32.png) [@GOD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GOD)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 1999, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-is-not-a-girl/2113/56 "1999-09-03T14:26:00Z")
predecessor? ---
**Author:** ![speakeasy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@speakeasy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/speakeasy)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 1999, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-is-not-a-girl/2113/57 "1999-09-04T08:04:00Z")
Back to the original subject, I don’t suppose it has crossed your radar screen that god might take a gender just so he / she could take part in the greatest game ever invented. Why should an omnipotent omniscient being sit on the sidelines while the rest of us get laid? Think about it, god would be able to hot on command (omnipotent) and would know right where it feels real good (omniscent). Boogie on down! Maybe I do feel the power after all… ---
**Author:** ![Nickrz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbce88/32.png) [@Nickrz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nickrz)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 1999, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-is-not-a-girl/2113/58 "1999-09-04T13:18:00Z")
What a stupid thread. Mere mental masturbation. ---
**Author:** ![GOD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/34f0e0/32.png) [@GOD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GOD)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 1999, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-is-not-a-girl/2113/59 "1999-09-05T05:17:00Z")
Remember that I am **all**. At any given moment, I’m experiencing millions of orgasms. And that’s on Earth alone. ---
**Author:** ![coffeecat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coffeecat/32/3405_2.png) [@coffeecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coffeecat)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 1999, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-is-not-a-girl/2113/60 "1999-09-05T05:52:00Z")
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