We limit God by referring to God as “He.” We limit and diminish the Allness, the Ever-presence, the completeness of God by assigning attributes of maleness or femaleness or of any human characteristic. These linguistic definitions create, ipso-facto, a less awesome God; they create a God as false as Baal or Diana. “She” or “It” are equally limited, equally misleading. God is a concept beyond all other concepts, the ground from which reality has arisen, in which we “live and breathe and have our being.” Surely the ancients understood this when they referred to YHWH, the origin of everything, whose name cannot be spoken.
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