Musing about God's sex? Must be satire.

I thought of "it," seconding @Skado. "It" would not only be gender neutral but a (feeble) step away from anthropomorphizing.

But zxlprtunhdwqadl works just as well.

"They/them" bugs me when used for a singular entity (other than a schizophrenic). It makes me stop and think, wait a minute - who else are we talking about now??!

That which does not exist, cannot refer to itself in any manner.

They can be used. Elohim in Hebrew is both singular and plural.

I tried looking for reference for the word Deity. In modern usage Deity is plurraified by adding -ies to make deities. However, I have understand previously in my experience that Deity in original greek could also be plural with out adding the -ies. I just cannot find a reference right now to confirm what I thought I remembered.

Elohim (Hebrew: אֱלֹהִים, romanized: ʾĔlōhīm: [(ʔ)eloˈim]), the plural of אֱלוֹהַּ‎ (ʾĔlōah), is a Hebrew word meaning "gods" or "godhood". Although the word is plural, in the Hebrew Bible

I have pointed out to a few believers I know that since God doesn't have genes, so no X let alone Y chromosomes, and neither has nor needs any secondary male sexual characteristics, that means by the conservative definition, he is not male. So, the only reason he would be male, is if that is how he identifies....

So yet once again this so called higher entity has to have another human construct - gender.

It seems that men like a male god because it validates their feelings of superiority. Maybe women like the notion of God as father figure, but I wouldn't want to generalize.
To me it's wasted effort to categorize a figment of one's imagination.

Anytime i'm in discussion with a believer, i say, "Your god" and deflect the ownership to them. i don't recall using a pronoun for god. Always wondered, if god is a "he" (male) doesn't he want a mate? or he just gets off watching and manipulating?

God comes in Three Parts (a bit like Gaul, I suppose), being God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost. Therefore God is plural, and so must be referred to as "They". However, being triune, God is also singular, and so must be referred to as "He". Thus we have that God must be referred to as They/He or He/They, or possible Theyhe or Hethey.

God is also omnipotent, meaning that It can be exclusively male, exclusively female, and exclusively both male and female all at the same time, meaning that the above should be corrected as Theyheshe, Theyshehe, Heshethey and Shehethey, all of which be used simultaneously.

God could also be hermaphroditic, which complicates matters even further. I will leave it to others to devise the appropriate pronouns.

I'm already using he/she/they on those rare occasions when I refer to the Abrahamic God with a pronoun. It used to be just he/she, but lately I have been adding they, just for fun.

i could name my pet unicorns, but they still won't come when called.

I could see using the pronoun, “it” for which “they” and “them” are also appropriate.

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It is my understanding that the god in the bible was originally a part of a pantheon of many gods. Yahweh, was originally a minor war god, which the Hebrews took out of the pantheon to worship and favoe individually.

Anthropologists say that the Jewish/Hebrew tribes started as a group of people who were outcasts from neighboring lands who banded together to form a single group. They most likely took as a war god for worship because they were outcasts and wanted favor in war and to be feared by those who cast them out.

It is no secret that the "ten commandments" were mostly lifted from or plagiarized from the Egyptian Book of the Dead. They just added in all the stuff about there only being one god and no other gods, hoping to gain favor from teh war god they patronized.

So, the us and them in scripture is left over from when there was more than one god worshiped.

However the idea of the far right Christians heads exploding when god is referred to as they, does make me smile a bit.

The key words are: "make god". Humans invented god/s and each have defined it according to their beliefs. If we call god "Shit-face", and it became popular with believers, then they would be singing songs like: Shit-face loves me, this I know.

""Take man's most fantastic invention - God."

in the end it is a useless debate as are all thing religious