Re: How do you know God Exists? does Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji prove god exists?
Dear Akasha,
It means both actually. God has an Impersonal and Personal aspect according to human understanding. He has a dark, unknowable Essence in which all beings are lost and according to Christian teaching a personal aspect that is the Essence's manifestation in a Trinity of Personalities.
Also, yes, it means that God is neither male nor female. In Christianity God the Word incarnated in the Son, however the other two Persons are neuter as far as gender. The Father could equally be called "The Mother". ''As truly as God is our Father,' said the 14th century Catholic mystic Juliana of Norwich, 'so truly God is our Mother.'
God the Father (or Mother), God the Holy Spirit and God the Word in essence are beyond gender distinctions.
In Essence God is neither male nor female. I think that some religions (monistic ones such as certain interpretations of Hinduism) have only the conception of God in the Divine Essence which is why God is Impersonal for them.
Other religions focus on both the Impersonal and Personal aspects of God. This is called a "synthetic" view of God.
