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THREAD: Recently, there’s been a little stir among some of my friends on Twitter about gendered language for God. It’s funny to me that those reject feminine language for God do so on the basis of how the Bible talks of God. I wonder if these people have actually read it...
Masculine metaphors for God (eg Father, King) are appropriate and helpful but not the only ones we can use to speak of the divine. Feminine metaphors are also helpful. In fact, the Bible uses A LOT of them, which is something I point out in #speakgodbook (amazon.com/Learning-Speak…) 
If you’re a part of a “Bible-believing” church, you’ve probably never heard a single sermon based on one of these Bible passages even though your pastor claims to preach “the whole counsel of God.” Chew on that for a moment...
