Female Gods. Is There Any Female Gods?

You just said to me earlier... however I don't agree with the belief you are trying to hold[ or something like that] and that is fair enough! In the meantime you are looking for a religion that would fit your way! fair enough again! but you know what? you will never find one. I for one do not believe in religion, and why? what religion had ever done for human kind? I tell you what![I'm sure you know what]but killing and burning a lot of innocent people! no my friend we do not need another religion [period.]

At the end of the day religion will never give you an answer...but more questions!!!!

How would you know what God thinks? And how did I know what God thinks? We only used faith and belief. We don't have "telephone" or "cellular phone" to talk to him physically and emotionally. We didn't see him since child so, we didn't know what God thinks. We only based on our faith and belief on a bible and on religion and of course, we inherit our belief from our parents... so, how would I know huh? I am not trying to find what God thinks because we don't see him and we don't talk to each other physically, but I am trying to find the true religion that teaches about God that is being 'fair' for both men and women, God that is really powerful and good to everyone and God that does not create sexism in the human society because if I would stay in my religion that teaches sexism, I would feel as if God is unfair to everyone and mostly, I would hate him and curse him that would result as blasphemy and because I believe that God is fair, it is better to find a religion that would teach people about God is being good and not being unfair. In short, I don't believe what christian people believe in the first genesis. In short, christian bible has a lot of contradictions.

Yup!Because there is no words in the bible that there is a women god...

E... father in heaven? Father e? That is a proof that he is a male.

Oh. That is sad. That is why; I lost faith in the Christian bible. I thought at first that God fair and perfect when it comes to his creation, but I realized that he is biased on both gender and I really do not like it.

Graptopetalum - I am not trying to put women down. I am content with God's ways revealed in His word and creation. I said "everything He has revealed to us about Himself is masculine.", and I am not sure I like that wording. He reveals Himself in the masculine gender, but it is not that he needs to demonstrate himself as masculine or feminine. What you say about female grammar being used for the Holy Spirit may be true, I do not know. It may make more sense since the Holy Spirit is the comforter. However we try to describe God, we know that within the Trinity is everything glorious and majestic, and far more than we can comprehend.

God is not a Deist and He has made that very clear in the Bible. All through the Bible, God is very involved in people's lives. He demonstrates that He has a master plan for mankind and that until that is fully accomplished, He will maintain sovereign control over the affairs of man. Here is a partial description of Deism, and it shows that if I was a Deist, I would need to write a new Bible. "Deists deny the Trinity, the inspiration of the Bible, the deity of Christ, miracles, and any supernatural act of redemption or salvation. Deism pictures God as ambivalent, uncaring, and uninvolved. Thomas Jefferson was a famous deist, referring often in his writings to “Providence.”"

@ djbtol For me, God should not revealed himself as masculine if he is neither a man or a woman. If people believed that God does not have a gender, then God is universal. Meaning to say, God does not need a revealed religion. If that is the case, it is better to be a deism than to involve in any revealed religion because Deism believed in God, but do not believe in Holy Bible. Deism is contrary to Atheism.

Unfortunately the Roman Catholic church is notoriously sexist (in spite of semi-deifying the Virgin Mary but holding a woman who's a mother and a virgin up as the ideal has its problems). It also doesn't follow the Bible very well. I suspect a lot of your questions weren't answered because you were pointing out things were the Bible contradicted the Church's teachings. However I don't agree with the beliefs you've now come to hold.

You are talking about human beings here, not about Gods. Apostles were men. I just today read an interesting explanation about God in Erich Fromm´s The art of loving. The God of the jews at the time of the 10 commandments was not a man-like God at all.

A female apostle, Junia e? Why does not she included in 12 apostles during the life of Jesus Christ? And 12 apostles are the most famous that I have always heard since the day I was born and baptized as a Catholic Christian. 12 apostles are all male. Of course, Jesus Christ is also included. How I wish that Jesus Christ would also include a female apostle in his group. It does not matter at all.

I'm not at all sure that the idea of God as male comes from "male centered societies" asking "painters to portray God as male". I don't see why shepherds would need a male God either. I'm not sure about women getting more power in the time of Jesus. Have you read Prov 31:10-31? Have you heard of the prophetess Deborah? Surely these speak of women having positions of power and respect in old testament times! However, in his day, Jesus was controversial for teaching women. He had many female followers and many of the leaders of the early church were women and there's even a passing mention of a female apostle, Junia(s), in Rome 16:7!

I am telling the times before christianity was followed popularly among people.A group of people worshiped nature as feminity and performed rituals and all.That group became smaller and smaller as christianity became more popular.I dont remember the exact years as you mentioned.I read it in some books regarding their culture and mode of worship and all.

Hmmmm. I have also read that kind of facts on the internet about people who worshipped female God. As Chrisitianity become popular, patriachal society is like a virus that spread all over the country. Jesus Christ is a male and God is a male because if he does not have any gender, Christian people would not call him 'God the Father' or Jesus Christ would not pray the 'Father's prayer' and it is also wrong to pray 'Mother's prayer' because it does not indicate on the bible.

I cannot know for certain that there female gods are older than male gods, I can only speculate on what I have studied over the years on what archeologists have theorized. One thing in Zen practice is to not know, but discover. To me it doesn't really matter that much whether male of female as the past is no more, and only holds interest for us, the future isn't yet, so that make only now, this moment as really real. Within each male, there is a female, and within each female there is a male. Is the sould male or female? I would think it could be either. And also I would think that God could be either. It is written that God is ominpresent - everywhere and in everything, so God must trascend gender don't you think? _Derek

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If God is neither male nor female like what the Christian people are trying to say, then why does he need to revealed himself as masculine? He could choose to be a female or maybe, a physical form without a gender, but who needs a physical form if God is neither male nor female... huh? Anyway, do not answer my question. Let us just forget it because I do not want to argue, he he he he.