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From: david@ssc-vax.UUCP (David Norris)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: God's gender
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Date: Sat, 10-Dec-83 17:42:11 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec 10 17:42:11 1983
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> As for why it is "obvious" that the Deity is neither male nor female --
> surely you jest.  If you assume an incorporeal Deity -- as most modern
> religions do -- then the concepts of X and Y chromosomes, eggs, sperm,
> etc., don't apply.

   Christianity, of course, is not a modern religion.  Christ was a man who
walked on this earth just like you and I.  The concept of marriage, of a man
and wife uniting to death, is symbolic of the relationship between Christ and
the Church.  The concepts of male and female, in this sense, are not limited
to mere physical realities.