God

[EricH]

He (Jesus) was in the world, and the world was created through Him, yet the world did not recognize Him. No one has ever seen God. The One and Only Son-- the One who is at the Father's side-- He has revealed Him.

John 1:10, 18 CSB

The greek word for "revealed" is "exegeomai". It means literally to explain. It is where we get the word "exegesis". In John 1:18 it is in the aorist tense indicating completed action, and in the middle voice indicating that the subject of the verb (Jesus) is performing the action on Himself (a clear statement of Jesus' divinity)

[Observer of dreams]

A gender free universal level of intelligence that no one seams to know anything about.

What's your point?

[Floatingaxe]

A gender free universal level of intelligence that no one seams to know anything about.

What's your point?

His point that he is very clever and consequently we should glorify his superior intellect.

Simple-folk like me call it boasting

seams is spelled, "seems"!

[Guest man]

A gender free universal level of intelligence that no one seams to know anything about.

What's your point?

His point that he is very clever and consequently we should glorify his superior intellect.

Simple-folk like me call it boasting

If I had a song named after me, I'd boast too.

[Floatingaxe]

If I had a song named after me, I'd boast too.

[Rebmilc]

"Oh well I can't help believing it's as natural as breathing, no matter what people might say, I'll tell you just how I feel I know my God is real because I spoke to Him only today".

[Leonard]

Please! There is room for all of us to repent of spelling errors and typoes....Uh...I...er....meen 'typos'....er...I....er mean 'mean typos!' Let us not be petty, shall we?

The most important point to engage here, seems to me to be the idea that 'no one seems to know anything' about God. Actually the Scriptures tell us that we can have a 'knowledge of God.' And the Greek for knowledge used here is not just 'gnosis' (knowledge), but epignosis. As most scholars would define the word, it means "a precise, and experiential knowledge...." We are also assured that we 'have the mind of Christ.'

Anyone who says we cannot know God, DOES NOT know Him. But God is very knowable, even familiar. Jesus encouraged us to think of the Father as 'Abba,' a very endearing familial term, probably best translated by the English 'Papa' or 'Dad,' or the archaic Irish 'Dada.'

Oh Dingaling, my son! Now I yearn, truly yearn, that you might KNOW Him. He is truly altogether lovely! And He longs to hear from you.....

[Naziyr]

Well, G-d is described in both feminine and masculine terms (in the original Hebrew and Greek)... but I'd have to question... "By what means to we equate G-d as a male or female?" Is it by 'His' genetalia?

We know that "He" is mostly used in the masculine terms when "He" is named in scripture, but Masculine means so much more than "manly". It also equates to "Central" and "authoritive" meaning the feminine forms of words submit to the masculine in grammer and such... but back to philosophical ideas...

The gender of G-d is often associated as "Male" because of how 'He' reveals 'Himself' through Christ, and words such as "son" "father" "king" "L-rd" etc. etc. which are words that mean something to us, societal creatures. But words such as "Father" and "King" have such fuller meanings in the realm of heaven.

Once again, as shown in all of living nature, male and female are divided by sexual reproductive organs. Since G-d doesn't have any... what does that make "Him"?