| What is one of the questions about the nature of God? | Is God male? |
| How is God represented as a man? | In most paintings, TV shows and biblical scriptures |
| What biblical scriptures refer to God as father? | Psalm 103:13-14 and Matt 6 |
| Psalm 103: 13-14 | "As a father has compassion for his children, so the Lord has compassion for those who fear him" |
| Matt 6 | "... but when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your father, who is unseen, then your Father, who sees what is done in secret will reward you" |
| What biblical scripture shows male pronouns for God? | Gen 2: 2 -3 |
| Gen 2:2 - 3 | By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done. |
| What other description shows God as a man? | Jesus of Nazareth was a man and a male saviour |
| What are the arguments for a gender neutral God? | The image of God as a Father is not about gender but rather to portray God as a creator with a loving and personal relationship with Jesus and humanity |
| Gender neutral language use of bible passages? | John 4:24, Matt 23: 37, 1 John 4:8, Gen 1:26 |
| John 4:24 | "God is Spirit" |
| Matt 23:37 | "I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings..." |
| 1 John 4:8 | "God is love" |
| Genesis 1:26 | "Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness |
| How do Christian writers use female imagery for Jesus? | "Jesus like a mother you gather your people to you: you are gentle with us as a mother with her children" - St Anselm of Canterbury |
| How does Julian of Norwich use female imagery for Jesus? | "Our Saviour is our true mother in whom we are endlessly born and out of whom we shall never come" |
| What does the trinity say about gender? | The trinity was never meant to say anything about gender but rather than origin |
| What was Sallie McFague's view on the nature | All language about God is metaphorical. Names and titles are ways in which we think about God. They say very little about God's true nature. |
| What does McFague believe about metaphors? | When we take metaphors to literally they become idols and aren't right as God is beyond our understanding. |
| What are the new metaphors suggested by McFague? | God as Mother, The son as Lover and the spirit as Friend |
| What is Sally McFague? | An eco feminist |
