| Apr 30, 2007 @ 9:53 AM |
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hammertime
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Who came up with this idea? Who decided God is male?
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| Apr 30, 2007 @ 10:17 AM |
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sail_dancer
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Don't look at me! 
Peace
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| Apr 30, 2007 @ 10:49 AM |
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hammertime
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I know its a funny question but its a serious one too. Who came up with creating God to look like a man? This is kind of dumbfounding.
Is God a species from an far more advanced civilization who came to earth or is this an extension of anthropomorphic earthly male ego? The same goes for the Goddess. At least the a God, Goddess motif we see an extension of what we see in nature. A male only God without a Goddess implies something very different.
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| Apr 30, 2007 @ 11:18 AM |
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sealacamp
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Then God said, Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness
Nuff said.
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| Apr 30, 2007 @ 11:27 AM |
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hammertime
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Nuff said. Only for an idiot who doesn't think or is incapable of thinking. I'm not saying you're an idiot but only those who don't question its reason for being written. Some men wrote that and created God in his image and likeness. Every wonder why Jews, who wrote the OT, pray to God thanking him they are not born as a woman?
"Blessed are you, Lord, our God, ruler the universe who has not created me a woman."
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| Apr 30, 2007 @ 12:15 PM |
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sealacamp
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Only for an idiot who doesn't think or is incapable of thinking.
Another slanderous,childish lie from a master that know not how to do anything but.
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| Apr 30, 2007 @ 12:16 PM |
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hammertime
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You're taking that a bit personal but maybe it describes you. You don't have a clue about many things. You just don't have answers. You don't even have questions. You're not dumb founded. You're founded dumb.
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| Apr 30, 2007 @ 1:45 PM |
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sealacamp
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You're taking that a bit personal but maybe it describes you
NO you applied it personally to every person that believes God's word to be true. Because you disagree with something does not make every person an idiot. You probably don't even know what the word means as many do not they just throw that word around not realizing what they are saying at all.
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| Apr 30, 2007 @ 1:46 PM |
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hammertime
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I know that the word genitals mean, do you? Do you have any? Why does God have a penis?
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| Apr 30, 2007 @ 1:54 PM |
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hammertime
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A psychoanalysis of men who wrote the OT is a must. What were on the minds of men to create a male God with the personality of a impulsive, angry, deal making, and even manipulatable being?
Carl Jung wrote
The Problem of Evil, which for so many people simply dehumanizes religion, and which Schopenhauer used to reject the value of the world, became a challenge for Jung in the psychoanalysis of God. The God of the Bible is indeed a personality, and seemingly not always the same one. God as a morally evolving personality is the extraordinary conception of Answer to Job. What Otto saw as the evolution of human moral consciousness, Jung turns right around on the basis of the principle that the human unconscious, expressed spontaneously in religious practice and literature, transcends mere human subjectivity. But the transcendent reality in the unconscious is different in kind from consciousness. As Jung said in Memories, Dreams, Reflections again:
If the Creator were conscious of Himself, He would not need conscious creatures; nor is it probable that the extremely indirect methods of creation, which squander millions of years upon the development of countless species and creatures, are the outcome of purposeful intention. Natural history tells us of a haphazard and casual transformation of species over hundreds of millions of years of devouring and being devoured. The biological and political history of man is an elaborate repetition of the same thing. But the history of the mind offers a different picture. Here the miracle of reflecting consciousness intervenes -- the second cosmogony [ed. note: what Teilhard de Chardin called the origin of the "noosphere," the layer of "mind"]. The importance of consciousness is so great that one cannot help suspecting the element of meaning to be concealed somewhere within all the monstrous, apparently senseless biological turmoil, and that the road to its manifestation was ultimately found on the level of warm-blooded vertebrates possessed of a differentiated brain -- found as if by chance, unintended and unforeseen, and yet somehow sensed, felt and groped for out of some dark urge. [p. 339]
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| Apr 30, 2007 @ 3:55 PM |
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Well I believe Jesus revealed His "Father" to us with no parable use and those that believe in "Jesus", for he is the bridegroom and the church is the bride.
That's what I know! 
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| Apr 30, 2007 @ 4:00 PM |
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hammertime
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Angel, this all began before Jesus.
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| Apr 30, 2007 @ 4:42 PM |
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God has to be man, he impregnated Mary didn't he, or was that the holy spirit, or did god drink the holy spirit before Mary. Or was it the holy ghost, floating by, of its tree on holy spirit.
SOC, tell me where it says god is a man, or was just one god. You have to remember that the original god, Yahweh was one of many gods, and 'our' image is plural, not singular. But then it is only a story, so you can expect it not to be plausible.
Referring to “in our image our likeness”, could mean god was a hermaphrodite Then we would all be made as part of his image, pure logic and he is up himself.
Only inadequate men believe in god, as their inadequacy is reflected in them needing to find an excuse to subordinate women and suppress others. Real men, see women as equal and a necessary asset in their lives, not just as their spiritual and physical underling, to administer to them. 
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| Apr 30, 2007 @ 5:28 PM |
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sealacamp
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Why does God have a penis?
I don't know why don't you ask God? BTW Carl is a bufoon of the first degree and his cohorts are all in the same pot. Of course that is your frame of reference which does not surprise me at all. That answer to your question has been given yet you continue to seek conflict. I can only conclude that is what you really want, conflict.
You are in good company around here. Enjoy. 
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| Apr 30, 2007 @ 5:38 PM |
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12knots
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Who said God exists?
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| Apr 30, 2007 @ 5:39 PM |
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Truly, isn't this from the time period where men were considered the Leaders and women were merely followers, or servants? Kinda like today? Goes back to the other thread, when Goddess became God.
Then God said, Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness
This proves nothing but the time in which it was written. It should be impossible to deny the obvious influences that the historical timeperiod had upon the recording.
If, my Knot, IF.... 
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| Apr 30, 2007 @ 5:56 PM |
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hammertime
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Seal
Wow, you have animosity against the mental health profession. That reveals some first hand experience with mental illness....
You wear your lack of education as a badge of honor for ignorance and stupidity. You have no knowledge about history of Judaism or Sumerian influence or even of your own Abrahamic God. You're lack of knowledge that the Hebrew God has over a several dozen referenced names. This is a God of an active imagination but you have no imagination. You ask no questions and have no answers.
There is obvious personality of God in the OT with human flaws and uncertainties. This must have been a reflection of those who wrote the OT.
There is one simple fact. Abraham is the first to affirm there is only one God and this is the same God for Christians, Moslems and Jews.
Another simple fact. This is the same Abraham who was going to sacrifice his own son. Ready, willing and able to kill for God.
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| Apr 30, 2007 @ 6:20 PM |
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hammertime
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To anticipate the most stupid response is that God stopped him from killing. It turns out the son had usefulness later. The idea is God tested whether this man will kill for him and in his name. This is how the Mafia tests its new comers into its ranks for leadership. They must "make their bones" (murder) to be considered for membership putting all else second including their families.
To test one's faith by whether you can kill or not. There was no test to see if one can love others with the exception of agape love. The patriarch of all three faiths was a killer at heart. Rule by fear, not by love.
We've all heard the Machiavellian quote "It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. "
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| Apr 30, 2007 @ 6:39 PM |
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sealacamp
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Who said God exists?
Certainly not you. But your vote only counts for you.
Wow, you have animosity against the mental health profession. That reveals some first hand experience with mental illness
Those that put insanity on a pedestal will themselves become insane. And you of course reveal the very nature of the deception that grips you.
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| Apr 30, 2007 @ 7:12 PM |
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12knots
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Cant teach monkeys E=MC^2
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