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All this talk about is God male or female is just that. As long as God and I are of one accord(communicating),thats all I care about. Shirley -----Original Message----- From: Mary Ann Ryan <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Date: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 1:43 PM Subject: Re: NON PD: God a woman? >> No way can anybody ever convince me that God is was or ever will be >> hermaphroditic. > >No, no, no, Bob. Ivan isn't saying that God is a hermaphrodite - obviously, >God is pure spirit and has no sex. But the language used to describe God is >gender related because we humans can't fathom a sexless God. We just gotta >'genderize' the spirit world. Hence, what Ivan is referring to (correct me >if I'm wrong, Ivan) is similar to the Christian understanding of 'Holy >spirit' and the Jewish understanding of 'the spirit of wisdom'. The >language describing this aspect of God is feminine in the OT. >----- >God bless >Mary Ann >> >> If you look very carefully, Goddess appears in the >> Old Testament- as the Sabbath Queen, or >> the "Shechina"-the female part of the Ruach Hakodesh, >> the Breath of the Most Holy. >>