Why?

[Sonic247]

Thief here...hey Sonic...
We humans have twelve pairs of rib.
We are born that way.
So yes...losing a rib doesn't mean your kids come up short.

Thanks for restating that. Now there are two witnesses.

 

[YmirGF]

Why does God have to be a He? I have noticed that lately... everyone says he when they refer to God. I try not to do that... Sometimes I slip because everyone says it and it is all I hear. Why is that? To me I always felt that God doesn't necessarily have a gender. What does everyone else think?

Actually I refer to what others call "god" quite frequently as "IT" as there is little point in ascribing gender based identification to such a concept. The main reason I think we use "He" in normal conversation and in scriptures is that is mirrors the patriarchal societies that the ideas grew out of. Besides, calling "god" IT doesn't sound warm and fuzzy. It is hard to warm up to an IT as we usually ascribe the term to an inanimate object.

 

[Azakel]

Aww, how naïve that you're only thinking of the Christian God... you're kidding, right?

What, you expect people to even think about any other god in this types of questions?
Doesn't seem like it, maybe it's just the Polytheist in me talking but I call god (any god) a he because that's what he is, if he wasn't he would be a female and that would make him a goddess.

 

[Tristesse]

What, you expect people to even think about any other god in this types of questions?
Doesn't seem like it, maybe it's just the Polytheist in me talking but I call god (any god) a he because that's what he is, if he wasn't he would be a female and that would make him a goddess.

Or it could be genderless(it) and god is just the title given to it.

 

[Azakel]

Or it could be genderless(it) and god is just the title given to it.

Or the way the god wishes to be referred as. Like I said, I'm a Polytheist, we see the Gods and Goddess in a different way then other. There's a reason that there are Male and Female deities.

 

[Buttons*]

What, you expect people to even think about any other god in this types of questions?
Doesn't seem like it, maybe it's just the Polytheist in me talking but I call god (any god) a he because that's what he is, if he wasn't he would be a female and that would make him a goddess.

I expect people to think, full stop.

Well yeah but that actually makes sense