I think the standard (Catholic) theological justification has historically been that God is analogously male, just as He is not actually "all-good," but analogously so.
--- Dwayne Monroe <idoru345 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Of the three, right now, I find the male God figure
> hypothesis to be the most interesting artifact.
>
> I mean, omnipotent and omniscient aren't human
> attributes; those abilities are way above our mortal
> pay grade. If God is able, as my Sunday School
> teacher insisted when I geekily pressed her, to
> lazily
> contemplate the motions of galaxies while checking
> in
> on whether or not randy humans keep it zipped prior
> to
> marriage it's a safe bet the configuration of
> consciousness is quite thoroughly alien.
>
> Which is why the idea of a male god seems even more
> astounding to me then the already quite astounding
> idea of god itself.
>
>
> Do you, as a "person of faith", believe in a
> gendered
> deity?
>
>
>
>
> .d.
>
>
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