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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] Almost the entire Old Testament is presented as history. Some of it is written in poetic language, but the story is clear: Man has rejected God, and the consequences of that rejection is very nasty. And God has provided Himself in the flesh in the person of Jesus Christ to reconcile to Himself those who would confess their sin and believe in Him.[/quote]

That is absolutely not the story of the Hebrew bible. The story is that G-d liberated Israel from Egypt, G-d gave Israel the law, sometimes Israel sinned, sometimes Israel repented, and G-d makes abundantly clear that She will never give up on the people Israel, but will always love them, and will turn their hears back.

The NT interpretation you present is anything but a literal reading of the Hebrew bible. [/quote]
Well, if you're talking about the Hebrew Bible and what is made abundantly clear, you would know not to refer to God as "She." It's really funny you can't use the "o" but that you would write that.[/quote]

There is no neutral third person in Hebrew, so the masculine word "hu" does not necessarily imply gender (and G-d is not like us and does not have a human gender)  OTOH there is a strong tradition of a feminine aspect to G-d, the shekina.  And there is no jewish law about what pronoun to use for G-d. [/quote]

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