Bishop Rachel Treweek has said the Church of England should not call God ‘he’
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God should not be referred to as “he”, the Church of England’s first female diocesan bishop and other leading Church figures have declared.
Church leaders say the tendency to describe God as “he” is a growing problem, some even going so far as to argue calling God a man is heresy.
The calls come after a YouGov survey found almost half of 18-24 year old Christians believe God is male, with one in three over-65s believing the same. Only one percent of respondents believed God was female.
The Bishop of Gloucester, the Rt Rev Rachel Treweek said: “I don’t want young girls or young boys to hear us constantly refer to God as ‘he’.”
She warned it is important to be “mindful of our language” so as to avoid alienating non-Christians from the Church.
She told the Sunday Telegraph: “For me, particularly in a bigger context, in all things, whether it’s that you go to a website and you see pictures of all-white people, […]
According to Amit Goswami (a physicist, and lecturer, and philosopher on the subject of God), God should be considered a consciousness as in Cosmic Consciousness which creates and sustains all life in the universe. I am a Universalist minister and this is my belief and what I preach, also.
One more reason for the REAL Christian Church–the Catholic Cghurch–not to allow the Anglicans to rejoin without a major reformation of the Anglican Church’s wacky beliefs.