Greetings,
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Originally Posted by Les Nubian See, I don't quite beleive that hell exists(i.e., a firey furnace underground that all the "bad" people go to) |
How then are evil people punished for their crimes against humanity? Do you think a God of justice would allow a man like Hitler to escape without punishment considering the unspeakable atrocities he perpetrated on minorities?
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and I don't beleive that "God" is necessarily a "male" if "he/she/it" exists at all.
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God, being the Creator, does not posses the qualities or attributes of His Creation. Genders are a trait of Creation not befitting God.
Therefore, God is neither male nor female. He is genderless. Why then do we call Him a "He", you might ask. As I have written before:
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God is genderless, but we tend to refer to God as "Him" because "it" normally refers to inaminate objects, which would be disrespectful.
Its the way the language evolves. "He" can refer to someone of unspecified gender, but "she" cannot (although now people use 'they' to refer to someone of unspecified gender). As the Oxford Dictionary writes:
Until recently, he was used uncontroversially to refer to a person of unspecified sex, as in: every child needs to know that he is loved Since this has been the traditional way to refer to God, any attempt to change it to 'she' would instantly imply the feminin gender, while 'they' would imply plurality. Thus, we leave it as 'He'.
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Hopefully this should answer your questions.
Peace.