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From: brower@fortune.UUCP (Richard Brower)
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Subject: Re: the gender of God
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Date: Thu, 16-Aug-84 17:30:11 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 16 17:30:11 1984
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> Maybe our problem is in referring to God with a noun in the first place.
> I ran into one theologian who postulated that the Trinity was
> "Creator, Redeemer and Sanctifier"...no nouns needed here.  It avoids
> the male/female thing entirely.
> 
> Mary Ann Zeszutko  AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville IL
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My dictionary defines the three words; Creator, Redeemer, and Sanctifier:
as nouns.  Perhaps you meant to say pronouns?

Richard Brower		Fortune Systems
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