God is neither male or female, but we shouldn't use gender neutral language
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Graham Nicholls2021-10-05T15:16:00
God may be neither male nor female in biological terms, but this doesn’t mean we can dump the male terminology God uses of himself in the Bible, argues Graham Nicholls
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