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From: liz@umcp-cs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Answers
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Date: Sat, 3-Dec-83 02:57:54 EST
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>>  I don't believe that God has a gender as we define it.

>	Again, the argument goes on the the question of Christ himself, who
> said there was a Father-Son relationship.  (NOTE: the hebrew translations for
> the words used is Father and Son, not parent-sibling.)
>
>	-- Dave Norris

The prevailing Biblical notion of God is masculine, but there are hints
of a feminine/motherly side to his nature.  For example, Jesus says (in
Mathew 23:37):

	"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, ... how often I have longed to gather
	your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her
	wings, but you were not willing."

I can't find any others right now...

Just an observation.

				-Liz Allen
-- 
Univ of Maryland, College Park MD	
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