I am enjoying reading your wisdom, Adam. I wonder if we will get to the place of referring to both the triune and creator God without male pronouns. ‘He’ feels like too small a box to me.
Terri, I love it and don’t disagree about the limitations of “he” as it relates to God. That said, if God has left us his preferred pronouns in the e-mail signature of the Scriptures, He (and the concept of God as father) is what we are given. I’m all for referring to the Holy Spirit with feminine pronouns as a way of capturing the sacred feminine in the triune God. He/Him, They/Their, She/Her... none of it really fully encompasses the infinite does it? :)
As we live into new uses of pronouns, I’ve been thinking a lot that ‘God’ is such a short word, no breath or time is lost if we use the proper noun rather than any pronoun. I suspect God didn’t choose the male pronoun but that the culture presumed it. I believe in God, the almighty, creator… I’m all for referring to the Christ with male pronouns!?
I am enjoying reading your wisdom, Adam. I wonder if we will get to the place of referring to both the triune and creator God without male pronouns. ‘He’ feels like too small a box to me.
Terri, I love it and don’t disagree about the limitations of “he” as it relates to God. That said, if God has left us his preferred pronouns in the e-mail signature of the Scriptures, He (and the concept of God as father) is what we are given. I’m all for referring to the Holy Spirit with feminine pronouns as a way of capturing the sacred feminine in the triune God. He/Him, They/Their, She/Her... none of it really fully encompasses the infinite does it? :)
As we live into new uses of pronouns, I’ve been thinking a lot that ‘God’ is such a short word, no breath or time is lost if we use the proper noun rather than any pronoun. I suspect God didn’t choose the male pronoun but that the culture presumed it. I believe in God, the almighty, creator… I’m all for referring to the Christ with male pronouns!?
Exactly! The word of God was written by men, who only valued the male gender. God has no gender; God is limitless.