Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site stolaf.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!stolaf!twiss From: twiss@stolaf.UUCP (Thomas S. Twiss) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: God Message-ID: <1842@stolaf.UUCP> Date: Thu, 9-Aug-84 14:04:14 EDT Article-I.D.: stolaf.1842 Posted: Thu Aug 9 14:04:14 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 16-Aug-84 03:36:30 EDT Organization: St. Olaf College, Northfield MN Lines: 16 Well I have to put my 2 cents in. The Judeo-Christian religion is based on the premise of a pre-existing power that is omnipotent, constant, and ultimate. If one element of that existence is challenged, then it completely destroys the unchanging objectivity of that power. In other words, if we suddenly say that God is genderless, then other elements of his/her/its existence are subject to interpretation. Supposedly, God's existence is fixed and NOT subject to interpretation. Personally, I see no point to try and second guess God's gender. If God exists, then its existence is completely independent of our conception of it UNLESS you accept EVERY word of the Bible as the absolute word of God and that it is completely uninterpretable. ok, flame me, I'm ready.... Tom Twiss {decvax|ihnp4}!stoalf!twiss