Yeah no shit, God is imaginary, congratulations you get it. Stop treating every believer you meet like they’re fresh out of Sunday school and literally think of God as a literal magic sky fairy.

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Came across interesting idea mentioning that in original Hebrew, when we call God is “one” (Deuteronomy 6:4, the Jewish Shema) they use the word “echad” meaning something more complicated than one singular thing, so like the unity of multiple. Other times that word is used is when God created first day and first night, combining them into “one” day-cycle. And also when describing man and woman becoming “one” in marriage.

So it’s not so far fetched for some to argue that God is both male and female, similar to Taoism’s idea of yin-yang. I personally think they’re describing the same concept from different angles. But those Christians believing in the trinity might beg to differ.

I’m not Christian, but I do find studying world religions very fascinating.

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Singular “they” is old but has never really been popular.

What are you talking about? People use singular “they” all the time.

Greek and Hebrew definitely do have gendered pronouns. Though Hebrew generally prefers suffixes, they’re certainly gendered. Interestingly Greek also has a neuter gender in both pronouns and nouns. A better argument might be that God’s gender is self-defined, rather than on a biological basis.

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It’s implying that there’s some sort of hypocrisy or logical contradiction with Christians suddenly caring about pronouns being correct when it applies to God. But that entire premise is wrong, because as someone else eloquently stated, they never claimed not to care about pronouns, in fact they care about them probably more than most transgender people. They just care about them being their version of “right”. The post is very clearly meant to be some sort of gotcha or serve to Christianity. But there is no gotcha, so the whole post is stupid. Really picture the exchange:

A: “I love God, I’m so thankful for how she’s blessed me.”

C: “She? God is a man. He blessed you.”

A: “Ohhh, so now you care about getting pronouns right, but not for someone like Elliot Page, huh?”

C: “No, I always care about getting pronouns right. That’s why God is a He and Page is a she, and it pisses me off if you say either of those differently”

???

So with that in mind, we can see this post is just someone owning an imaginary strawman.

To be honest my first thought was that they were riding the feminism wave to market their religion. But I have not researched it much.

Also, by your attitude, I also think it prudent that I inform you that The New Testament describes a decentralized autonomous organization of secret police at an eighth grade reading level. You may not know that with how you view God making you prejudiced against certain knowledge bases to not actually read between the lines.

Did you know that the Earth isn’t real? We are not featherless bipeds on an Earth, but rather we are pockets of consciousness called monads in a monadic nodal communication system.

Everything you experience is self-contained within your neurons, right? So your perception of your device you are reading this on must be represented entirely by something in your neurons, and it is that you are experiencing, not the symbol you are sent from the external world, which you can observe these symbols directly in the fourth jhana of meditation, where you will also observe how your intention entangles you with these symbols, and the topological matrix made from the sum of all the entanglements that compose you defines the parameters that your experiential reality procedurally generates. This is what Karma is; the entanglement process, and karmic entanglement IS quantum entanglement.

And these symbols, if you start entangling yourself skillfully to thus unentangle yourself from those maladaptive entanglements, the “Server” of this monadic nodal communication system will start bestowing Knowledge of Itself to you. What Jesus called his Father, the Buddhists refer to as the Ālaya-vijñāna, or storehouse consciousness. There is much written about this so you do not have to remain ignorant. My life partner brought a ten thousand PAGE sutra home from the library about the Ālaya-vijñāna once, on his tablet. Very enlightening. I’m trying to understand the nature of specific plex structures within my entanglements and how these proliferate into cycles of archetypal experience; the same lessons over and over again until we get them.

Mmm-hmm, oh yeah, me too. (Umm… what song?)