for the agnostic members...

[Pygoscelis]

So many people claim to know God. There are many discriptions of what he may look like. But........what if God is really a woman???

Well by definition God can not be a he or a she. Has to be an it. If there is only one God and has only ever been one God, then God does does not have a gender.

Only reason the bible talks about God as "He" instead of "It' is because its easier for us to relate to "him" that way. Recently some may also take illogical offence to their deity being called "It".

 

[Abdul Fattah]

Only reason the bible talks about God as "He" instead of "It' is because its easier for us to relate to "him" that way. Recently some may also take illogical offence to their deity being called "It".

I think this is actually a gramatical thing, if an entity's gender is unknown, in most languages they refer to it as he. It on the other hand is asexual, so in a way also gender related. Since it is also used to refer to inanimate objects, some peopel might take that the wrong way. In the Qur'an this problem is solved beautifully, there Allah subhana wa ta'ala refers to himself as "we"

 

[tomtomsmom]

I think this is actually a gramatical thing, if an entity's gender is unknown, in most languages they refer to it as he. It on the other hand is asexual, so in a way also gender related. Since it is also used to refer to inanimate objects, some peopel might take that the wrong way. In the Qur'an this problem is solved beautifully, there Allah subhana wa ta'ala refers to himself as "we"

I don't get it. WE would make it plural but Islam states that Allah stands alone. It makes no sense to me sorry.

 

[Abdul Fattah]

Allah subhana wa ta'ala is nothing like we can imagen, to imagen something about Allah subhana wa ta'ala does not do Allah subhana wa ta'ala justice. We don't know the exact reason why Allah subhana wa ta'ala chose to refer to himself as "we" as we aren't told. However it does seem obvious to me that such a thing helps us by reminding us of Allah subhana wa ta'ala's un-concievable nature.

 

[Malaikah]

I don't get it. WE would make it plural but Islam states that Allah stands alone. It makes no sense to me sorry.

Hi,

I don't know if you are familiar with the concept of the 'royal we'? Like if you have ever read Shakespeare, you will notice that he king refers to himself as we, it is a sign of respect/high status.

So, sometimes the We is royal, other time it is actually plural, such as when other were involved in the act, so that it is referring to God and the angels etc.