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[-] Tikiporch@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year ago

Nowhere in the Holy Bible is it implied God is anything other than a dude. It's always father this and king that when referring to God.

Unless you mean Joseph is non-binary? In which case, again, no. He's just a cuckold who didn't ever consummate his marriage to Mary, and they both died as virgins. Which is honestly the most unbelievable part of the whole story.

[-] s@piefed.world 48 points 1 year ago

God is three entities: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. That sounds like an extension of the nonbinarism of Two Spirit to me.

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[-] Kennystillalive@feddit.org 15 points 1 year ago

I hate to be the "umm actually guy🤓", but in the bible God is described as both man and woman. God is described as a being beyond gender as God is a spirit.

The most promiment ones describe God as father, but he's also often described as mother and attributed female traits to them.

But as I said that's none of my business.

[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

often described as a mother [in the Bible]

Definitely going to need a source for that one. Isaiah 66:13 is a one-off similie to mothers comforting their children, but I don't think you'd then turn around, read Psalm 42:1, and think that David is an otherkin and that God identifies as waterself.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

hey leave your heteronormativity out of the bible david can be whoever they want

[-] CXORA@aussie.zone 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Is it possible for a concept of binary gender to exist in a species which has only ever had one member?

[-] medicsofanarchy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

species which has only ever had one member?

That is a fascinating approach. What does it eat? Where does it live? What are its habits? I strongly suspect Jane Goodall is on the case, but I don't expect to hear back from her anytime soon...

[-] I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

I recall (but am not up to finding at this hour) one spot in the OT where someone is talking about God feeding mankind with the milk from his breast. And I think he “birthed” ice and snow in the book of Job?

But in this case, the Holy Spirit is the one that “came on Mary.”

God the father and God the son are masculine, but God the spirit is without gender.

Also, Jesus had brothers in the story, and they don’t seem to be supernatural beings, so I think it was consummated eventually.

[-] Eq0@literature.cafe 3 points 1 year ago

Jesus had brothers in the apocryphal books, that are not usually recognized as part of the Bible (the church says because they have been written later than the four main ones)

[-] I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The book of Acts is not generally considered apocryphal.

[-] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 year ago

Jesus had siblings. There is even a record of one, John, being executed by being thrown from a high place.

[-] Eq0@literature.cafe 8 points 1 year ago

If I remember correctly, there are older pieces of the Bible that come from a time where Jahve was only one of a duality of Gods, male god Jahve and a female god that later got incorporated into Jahve.

Shady reference that just partially overlaps

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 year ago

IIRC, the virgin Mary stuff is mostly Catholic sanctification stuff. They wanted to make her "pure" so they said she was a virgin.

[-] turdcollector69@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

"... died as virgins."

Holy shit, one of us?

[-] Aedis@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I'm sorry, does the holy spirit have a gender? Because god is also the holy spirit and Jesus. So while the "Father" part may be a man, and I think it's probably correctly translated as such. I don't think there's any assumption of such for the holy spirit.

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[-] InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 37 points 1 year ago

If the story is to be believed, Jesus was conceived via parthenogenesis (aka immaculate conception aka unfertilized egg). This means Jesus had only X chromosomes and yet presented as male. Jesus was definitely somewhere on the line of intersex, transgender, non-binary, et. al.

[-] P1k1e@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

This is funny and makes me smile

[-] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

He had a Holy Father who was into rape.

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[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago

Are you trying to say God isn't a man? Preposterous! Next thing you're going to claim Jesus wasn't blond and blue eyed!

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

next you'll be trying to convince me the 12 apostles wasn't his gay harem. preposterous!

[-] HailSeitan@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

If conservative Christians cared what the Bible said, I’m sure they would be very upset!

[-] anotherspinelessdem@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

Christians Read the Bible Challenge (they never do)

[-] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As living proof to the contrary, I wouldn't say never. :p

But we sure are a rarity, I'll give you that! (And admittedly, I could stand to be more thorough.)

Nothing infuriates me more than cherry-picking things out of context to support heinous and inhumane ideas, the way they do. The Americhristian cult is one of evil's most potent weapons right now...

[-] anotherspinelessdem@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Certainly one topic I'm always happy to be proven wrong on

[-] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 year ago

Not a definite disagreement on the the non binary part but overwhelmingly, the God of the bible is male presenting including having a penis

[-] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Man, it's always fun listening to scholars make vague and circular arguments like you see in that video. So many times there's an interpretation that's taken as fact, and bolstered by other parts that both support and rely on the initial supposition to be true to be true themselves, or could have been referring to the initial supposition but now used to support it.

Was Adam's penis created circumcized? Of course, because he's made in gods image and God has a circumcized penis. How do we know God has a penis? There are euphemisms in semitic languages that use the same words to refer to penises, so clearly that's what they meant. No, it doesn't say it for sure, but it has to be true! There's no way the men writing the mythos would anthropomorphize god and give it masculine characteristics while writing a text that was extremely patriarchal, as was the society at the time.

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[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Bethlehem is in Palestine. Jesus was a Palestinian.

[-] gnomesaiyan@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, well most (if not, all) religion is male-dominated, so it's natural to think God is a man. That's a pretty unhealthy point of view, especially considering that the entire world is run by men, which means egos running wild, one-upmanship on the reg, violence ad nauseum, not to mention followers oppressing anyone that doesn't fit the mold. That's not religion; that's dominator culture. Knocking your head on the floor is just going to give you brain damage.

[-] vane@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

And he make out with Judas. Always surrounded himself with poor hard working people.

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