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Holy Ghost Male Female - The Bible Revealed - Posted: 23rd Apr, 2009 - 10:09pm
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Post Date: 30th Jul, 2007 - 12:34pm / Post ID: #
Holy Ghost: Male Or Female?
Holy Ghost: Male or Female?
Since the Bible does not explicitly say, is the Holy Ghost: Male or Female?
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Female Male Ghost Holy
I don't think there's any evidence either way, but seeing that leaders/elders in the Bible re of the male gender, I tend to sway this way in my belief that the Holy Ghost would be male too, but that's just my own thoughts and not backed up by concrete evidence.
Female Male Ghost Holy
Unlike English most languages have Feminine words and Masculine words (Spanish, Greek, Hebrew)
From God and Gender in Wikipedia.(References found in article.
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The New Testament also refers to the Holy Spirit as masculine (in the Gospel of John 14-16).[3] John reports Jesus refering to the Holy Spirit as Comforter (masculine in Greek), and uses grammatically necessary masculine forms of the Greek pronoun autos.[4] Grammatical gender, on its own, says nothing about natural gender. However, when John reports Jesus speaking of the Holy Spirit as Spirit, grammatically neuter in Greek,[5] he uses the masculine form of the demonstrative pronoun ekeinos ("that male one").[6] This breaking of the grammatical agreement, expected by native language readers, is a clear indication of the authorial intention to unambiguously convey the personhood of the Holy Spirit, and also his masculinity.[7] These texts were particularly significant when Christians were debating whether the New Testament teaches that the Holy Spirit is a full divine person, or just a "force". All major English Bible translations have retained the masculine pronoun for the Spirit. |
One could base their view on the masculinity of The Holy Ghost on the original greek of the new testament.
I base my own views on personal feelings that God Should be a Man.
Post Date: 7th Apr, 2009 - 10:09am / Post ID: #
Holy Ghost Male Female
Name: Terry
Comments: However, as opposed to the Greek, the Old Testament/Torah uses mostly feminine nouns:
`ormah = wisdom (f) (See Strong's Hebrew 6195)
Chokmah = Wisdom (f) (Strong's H 2449, 2450, 2451, 2452, 2454)
Tuwshiyah = Wisdom (f) (Strongs H 8454)
nesh-aw-maw' = breath, spirit (f) (Strong H 5397)
Nichowach = comforter (m) (Strongs H 5207)
Then there is Shekhinah, Divine Presence or In-dwelling, which is not in Strongs as it is not in the Christian Bible or the Torah, but comes from 1st Century Rabbinical sources.
Source 1: Strongs Exhaustive Concordance
Source 2: Source 1
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