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Old 12-07-2008, 08:47 PM
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The assignment of gender to nouns is a linguistic and semantic stylistic issue. In certain languages a noun may be expressed as male when in another language it may be female or even neutral. It has no correlation or religious significance with actual gender. Hebrew language has idiosyncratic linguistic formulas that are clearly anachronistic to us.

For example, they expressed love, caring and mercy as emanating from one's "bowels." For us today, in English "I love you with all my bowels" sounds pretty bizarre. But in classical Hebrew it was actually linguistically accurate.

I suggest that although it may be a mildly entertaining exercise, there is no evidence in the texts that the Holy Ghost or any other member of the Godhead is female. In fact, a certain format for the name of God used in (Hebrew) Genesis, Psalms and Isaiah denote a plural masculine. Most likely we would have to wait until we are across the veil to be privy to such aspects of the nature of divinity.

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