Christianity is above all a religion based on REVELATION. That is, contrary to modern assumptions, it is NOT about “Humankind’s (Man’s) search for God” rather, God’s search (and rescue) of Man. Therefore to accurately talk about, communicate with, and praise God, we must do so in ways He has shown us. In scripture, God ALWAYS (with a couple of metaphoric exceptions) refers to Himself as masculine. NOT a human male, for sure (except of course for God the Son, who, after the resurrection, still is a human male...though exalted) but more potent, more masculine than any man. He certainly is not neuter...
This stupid move by the Scottish Episcopals is just another sign of pseudo-scholars thinking they know better than the bible—which is God’s own self revelation—who go above (or below) and beyond the authority of God’s word.
The silly thing is too, is that the feminization of the Church is the real scandal...Many churches are so wimpy that a real man doesn’t want to step foot into them. Acceptance of female ministers, and homosexual ones too....doesn’t help matters one bit either, to say the least. Almost any church will have more women than men...so why are they imagining scriptural faith alienates women?
Common sense even says, if you were to get a letter from a stranger, who repeatedly called himself a man’s name...and had various stories in the letter about himself where others called him by the masculine pronoun..., and even related stories about himself as a human male (named Jesus) it would be the height of rudeness and insult to reply to the letter:
“Dear He, She or It,
Nice to hear from you...”
Of course liberal theologians never really had much common sense at all, did they?