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If you really are a learner, I might suggest that you've picked a poor place to learn. Throwing a question like this out onto the vastness of the Internet is a bad place to find advice on the living God. In fact, I might argue that asking man for his opinion of God is a great way to start a new religion. Religion of old and modern is littered with gods who have appendages, gods who are made by men who desire sex sacrifices, and gods who have idols that bear sexual symbols. These aren't new.

I'd even argue that if you're really serious about the living God, (if you are talking about the God of Abraham, Issac, and Jacob, the God spoken of in the New Testament by Jesus Christ), then you might start there. Please don't hear me as being sarcastic or mean, but there are a lot of places to start learning instead of throwing such an important question out to other people to answer - especially if you're about to base your belief system upon it.

Friend, you have some religious education listed on your biography, so I assume you have some knowledge of where to start. Jesus Christ, who made claims of divinity gave some good starting places in the Gospel of John. Without quoting any of the Bible except the book of John, just take John 4:24 where Jesus says, "God is spirit." 

Surely most of the questions have been asked and the answers to even the most ridiculous questions are out there, right? Asking questions without purpose isn't going to move us toward belief if the answers are already out there.

Paul addressed a lot of people with questions on Mars Hill in Acts 17 when he accused them of having many gods - then said basically, "let me tell you about this unknown God you seem to be seeking." 

I'm encouraging you to find a starting place. Is your point about feminism? That men have tried to make God into a man so they can oppress women? Then that's a different issue than God having appendages or not. The answers aren't to be found by asking humanity - that's how we form our unorthodox ideas and wrong beliefs. 

I suppose the bottom line is this (and forgive me if I've misread your post) - has God revealed himself? And if he has, what does he have to say about himself?