I don't see why it can't be a hermaphrodite either.

Bible:

"So God created mankind in his own image,
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them."

God is a hermaphrodite. Mankind was made in his image... They were male *and* female.

We aren't all sandwiches so no.....

Well, in Basque mithology (coz I'm Basque) our main god was Mari, the goddess of nature. In our society women had a predominant role also. I believe in ancient Japan, before Buddhism, the main god was also woman.

Maybe he was an alien, like Taylor Swift

So because you're a persona and your limited you are assuming that God can't be a person and unlimited!?

Seems to me that you are the one with poor arguments.

There are monotheistic scriptures much older than the Bible so your point falls flat. Also, WHY should it be considered more legitimate simply because its older? Not all philosophies think of time as linear as in Western Theology. In the East the Universe is considered to always exist (there are cycles of creation and destruction), so you are implicitly falling in line with the former.

You realise Bible wasn't written in Eglish right ?

We would need some language experts to know if that part of bible was written in language that distinguishes beetween his/her.

Logically God is without gender / sex characteristics.

Option a) God does not exist: what does not exist can have no gender / sex characteristics.

Option b) God Exists: God is the Creator, but God has no partner in creation. Hence God did not create via any intercourse between "him"self and a counterpart/complimentary other. Thus God has no need of gender identification to play a particular gender role; and God has no need of sex characteristics with which to engage in procreative activity; and God has no partner peer or equal with whom to engage in sexual activity for pleasure. God is both father and mother. Let's assume that the one claim for God engaging directly in procreation is true: God got Mary pregnant. However God did it by asexual means: Mary was a virgin before, during and (at least for a little while) after her pregnancy with Jesus. Thus God did not impregnate Mary by conventional sexual means but rather by miraculous means. A God who can make a woman pregnant need not be male or have any form of gender identification. So the one case to be made for God to be male doesn't actually stand up to scrutiny. There are no other instances in monotheistic religion of God playing any other procreative role with another person male or female so there's no evidence for God needing to be or directly revealing "Him"self to have a specific gender idenfication.

Simple really.

Whatever happened to her anyway? I remember when not a day went by without a Taylor Swift thread in Off Topic, but now i never hear of her at all...