Why did God choose to be a man?

[Lees]

It doesn’t mean the Bible is the word of god. It means someone wrote something in the Bible purporting to quote god. There were quite a few who pretended that god talked to them or that they spoke for god. But no god ever wrote one word of the Bible.

No, 'Thus saith the LORD' means God is saying it.

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[Metanoia]

We who are Christian worship God as described in the Bible. We don't worship a god created in your brain...what a catastrophe.

Lees

The thing that really counts is to worship the God you have experienced rather than the one you have read about….that is what makes testimony possible….anything else is secondhand information….

 

[Metanoia]

Of course the Old Testament speaks of eternal life.



Lees

Chapter and verse please…..it would be helpful……even one would be good….

 

[Daisy]

The OT certainly never speaks of it

It absolutely does, beginning with Genesis...think...what would've happened if Adam and Eve had not disobeyed? What was the alternative? They would not die, IOW they would live forever...

Solomon spoke of the desire for everlasting life as a natural desire Jehovah instilled in humans...

"He has even put eternity in their heart;" Ecclesiastes 3:11,29...

And the psalmist King David also spoke of it in Psalm 37:11,29

"But the meek will possess the earth, And they will find exquisite delight in the abundance of peace...the righteous will possess the earth, And they will live forever on it."

 

[Daisy]

The Bible says no such thing. The Bible can’t make claims about itself as it isn’t a sentient being. The Bible never comments on itself.

Wrong...

"For the word of God is alive and exerts power and is sharper than any two-edged sword and pierces even to the dividing of soul and spirit, and of joints from the marrow, and is able to discern thoughts and intentions of the heart." Hebrews 4:12

 

[devildavid]

Wrong...

"For the word of God is alive and exerts power and is sharper than any two-edged sword and pierces even to the dividing of soul and spirit, and of joints from the marrow, and is able to discern thoughts and intentions of the heart." Hebrews 4:12

That quote doesn’t say that the Bible says that the Bible is the word of god.

 

[devildavid]

It absolutely does, beginning with Genesis...think...what would've happened if Adam and Eve had not disobeyed? What was the alternative? They would not die, IOW they would live forever...

Solomon spoke of the desire for everlasting life as a natural desire Jehovah instilled in humans...

"He has even put eternity in their heart;" Ecclesiastes 3:11,29...

And the psalmist King David also spoke of it in Psalm 37:11,29

"But the meek will possess the earth, And they will find exquisite delight in the abundance of peace...the righteous will possess the earth, And they will live forever on it."

Adam and Eve did not literally exist. They are symbolic beings in a symbolic religious myth. Nothing was instilled in humans having to do with eternity.

 

[Daisy]

That quote doesn’t say that the Bible says that the Bible is the word of god.

Really? I was responding to your post...pay attention...

The Bible says no such thing. The Bible can’t make claims about itself as it isn’t a sentient being. The Bible never comments on itself.

 

[Hamish Howl]

What kind of God has to pick a biological sex?

 

[Logician Man]

We who are Christian worship God as described in the Bible. We don't worship a god created in your brain...what a catastrophe.

Lees

Ummm - Nope.





Lees said:


So, if you don't want to smell like shit, don't step in it in the first place.

Lees

17 Bible verses about Useless Religion​

James 1:26

If anyone thinks himself to be religious, and yet does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this man’s religion is worthless.

Source: https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/Useless-Religion

 

[Revelation]

What kind of God has to pick a biological sex?

for Sheep with a tiny comprehension of who God is, it may help them get to the basics.

in the End my Hamish friend, God is a Spirit. that may be a little too deep at the moment so go in with what you have at the moment.

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[dairyair]

Why did God choose to be a man? He clearly isn't a man, since gender is a biological and social construct.

I would argue that God is transgender. He has the capacity to exist as either gender, both genders, or no gender, but has made a conscious choice to be a man. Good for He/Him.

A case could be made that transgender people are truly in God's image.

According to the story, only one god chose that. The god of Abraham.

Are there other god's that became human?

But according to the story, god became human to save humans from the creation that the god created.

 

[dairyair]

What does the sex of a bovine have to do with gender?

 

[dairyair]

No, God is masculine, a man. He is Spirit, and He is masculine.

No, God is not transgender and not female. He never has and never will exist as a woman.

No, the case can be made that the transgender is a picture of absolute confusion and perversion.

Lees

god can be whatever one believes a god is.
the god of the bible never described any anatomy parts. so that god is not known, other than what some men believed and wrote about that god of abraham.
If the topi is limited to that 1 god.
There are 1000s of gods of the earth.

 

[dairyair]

So, a bull can be a milk cow if he so chooses to be a she...got it...

No. You don't got it. You are still confused on sex and gender.

 

[dairyair]

Daisy, please stop confusing us with the Facts.

i was starting to understand transgender and how we can be 72 or more genders, then this comes up.

now i don't know what to and i don't think @Logician Man or the atheists are toooo willing to help us much.


well blessings Daisy, it has been 12 days of war, and now Orange king has brought 'Peace on Earth and good will to man'. did i get this right? again so confusing like this Gender thing that no one is helping us with today.

so i will go home and see if the Grass needs mowed, or maybe come over and mow yurs and we talk.


bye.

Don't know how many genders there can actually be, but there are many possible chromosome options other than 100% male or female. Whatever that may mean.
But here are some more facts.
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Any variation from these typical numbers is referred to scientifically as an “aneuploidy.” If there is one additional X or Y, it is known as a “trisomy” (“tri” denoting the number 3). Genetic conditions that reflect a trisomy include:

• 47,XXY (Klinefelter syndrome)
• 47,XXX (Trisomy X)
• 47,XYY

Trisomies are the most common X and Y aneuploid conditions. Less common are “tetrasomies,” which denote the presence of four sex chromosomes:

• 48,XXYY
• 48,XXXY
• 48,XXXX

Still rarer are the “pentasomies,” indicating five sex chromosomes:

• 49,XXXXY
• 49,XXXXX

Typically, 48- and 49-chromosome variations produce more pronounced symptoms than trisomies, although this is not always the case.


At the other end of the spectrum lie the “monosomies,” meaning a person born with only one sex chromosome. The only survivable monosomy SCA is 45,X. This is an individual with only one X chromosome, a condition known as “Turner syndrome.”

Variations - The Association for X and Y Chromosome Variations

About X and Y Variations X and Y Variations, also known medically as Sex Chromosome Aneuploidy (SCA), involve variations in the typical number and type of sex chromosomes. The typical number of chromosomes in each human cell is 46. These include 22 pairs of “autosomes” (which refers to

genetic.org

 

[dairyair]

If gender was necessary for creation then one must envisage a female God ?

Generally, only females can reproduce, ie, create another life.

So, god could be female or transfemale?

 

[Metanoia]

It absolutely does, beginning with Genesis...think...what would've happened if Adam and Eve had not disobeyed? What was the alternative? They would not die, IOW they would live forever...

That doesn’t work. First what would have happened is that they would have remained as spiritual beings and would have never set foot on earth. And if the 10 Commandments defines sin….and they did not sin on earth after they got there they still would have not had eternal life. Deuteronomy 5:33 clearly states this: “so that you may live and prosper and prolong your days in the land you will posses.” The reward for not sinning was living a little longer and getting rich…..certainly not eternal life.

And I am still asking for an OT verse that says ‘eternal life’….not some attempt to twist scripture into something it does not say. Eternal life only appears, and repeatability in the NT, and directly traceable to Jesus……without Jesus no eternal life…..God had 4,000 years and did not do it. In 30+ years Jesus made it happen……

 

[dairyair]

Because women hadn't been invented yet?

Do angels have a sexual identity?

 

[dairyair]

Pay attention. 'God is'. And God is masculine. They do mean the same thing. No, the human trait is because 'God is'. Geen that was easy. Nothing defines greater than God. There is no greater than God. I am a child of God and one who knows my Father, and Lord Who is Jesus Christ.

Who the hell are you?

Lees

It seems there are more than 1 god or that god has many names. Depends on what one is believing at any particular point in time.

...

Seven names of God​

The names of God that, once written, cannot be erased because of their holiness<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_God_in_Judaism#cite_note-6"><span>[</span>5<span>]</span></a> are the Tetragrammaton (YHWH), Adonai, El, Elohim,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_God_in_Judaism#cite_note-plural-1"><span>[</span>n 1<span>]</span></a> Shaddai, Tzevaot; some also include I Am that I Am, from which "YHWH" is believed to be derived.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_God_in_Judaism#cite_note-:0-2"><span>[</span>1<span>]</span></a> In addition, the name Jah—because it forms part of the Tetragrammaton—is similarly protected.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_God_in_Judaism#cite_note-moshe-7"><span>[</span>6<span>]</span></a> The tanna Jose ben Halafta considered "Tzevaot" a common name in the second century<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_God_in_Judaism#cite_note-8"><span>[</span>7<span>]</span></a> and Rabbi Ishmael considered "Elohim" to be one.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_God_in_Judaism#cite_note-9"><span>[</span>8<span>]</span></a> All other names, such as "Merciful", "Gracious" and "Faithful", merely represent attributes that are also common to human beings.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_God_in_Judaism#cite_note-10"><span>[</span>9<span>]</span></a>

Names of God in Judaism - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Daisy]

they would have remained as spiritual beings and would have never set foot on earth.

Where does it say humans start out as spiritual beings somewhere else?

And if the 10 Commandments defines sin….and they did not sin on earth after they got there they still would have not had eternal life.

WTH? Disobedience is the 1st sin ever committed...

And I am still asking for an OT verse that says ‘eternal life’….not some attempt to twist scripture into something it does not say. Eternal life only appears, and repeatability in the NT, and directly traceable to Jesus……without Jesus no eternal life…..God had 4,000 years and did not do it. In 30+ years Jesus made it happen……

You lack of understanding the Bible is duly noted...

 

[Lees]

The thing that really counts is to worship the God you have experienced rather than the one you have read about….that is what makes testimony possible….anything else is secondhand information….

Bull shit. Experiential testimony is always questionable. Satan can give you an 'experience'. You might even call it good. And Satan wants it to feel and appear good to you. But it is a lie. The Bible gives the Christian that by which he can govern his experience by. Without that you are left to Satan's deception. As most are.

Lees

 

[Gordy327]

"Thus saith the LORD"

Lees

Broken record much?

The Bible says it is the Word of God.

Lees

The Bible says a lot of nonsense.

That's right, says me. And my opinion is based upon the Bible.

Lees

"Opinion," i.e. not a fact.

No, not everyone. The one who believes the Bible worship a God as described in the Bible.

Lees

Belief does not equal fact either.

Bull shit. Experiential testimony is always questionable. Satan can give you an 'experience'. You might even call it good. And Satan wants it to feel and appear good to you. But it is a lie. The Bible gives the Christian that by which he can govern his experience by. Without that you are left to Satan's deception. As most are.

Lees

Any testimony is questionable.

 

[Logician Man]

Broken record much?

The Bible says a lot of nonsense.

"Opinion," i.e. not a fact.

Belief does not equal fact either.

You know what the Bible doesn't say?

Nary a word in the Christian Biblical scriptures that declares people should be killed because of personal 'thoughts'.

 

[Lees]

Chapter and verse please…..it would be helpful……even one would be good….

Why? You ignore so many of the verses I give you. Now you 'demand a verse because you are so confident there are none.

(2 Samuel 7:24) "For thou hast cnfirmed to thyself thy people Israel to be a people unto thee forever: and thou LORD, are become their God."

(Deut. 29:29) "The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unot us and ot our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law."

(1 Chron. 17:22) "For thy people Israel didst thou make thine own people for ever: and thou, LORD, becamest their God."

(2 Chron. 21:7) "Howbeit the LORD would not destroy the house of David, because of the covenant that he had made with David, and as he promise to give a light to him and to his sons for ever."

(Psalm 133:3) "As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even life for evermore."

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