From a Generous Orthodoxy...
"Significantly, seeing Jesus as the "Son of God" can actually help remove the macho power and patriarchal dominance ideas often associated with God. Jesus comes not as a loud, bullying macho general, but as a vulnerable baby. Jesus lives as a poor Jew without ecclisiastical or political power and models not a conquering arroagance but a filial submission, not rugged independence but courageous obedience, not angry dominance that threatens with suffering but loving faithfulness that suffers instead. If Jesus truly reveals and images God, this vision of God is vastly different from the tough, macho judge and angry male potentate that many people think of when they think of God."
As Ron Martoia would say...if the church is to navigate through the waters of the future, it must look at it's lexicon and see where it needs to change, not to bow or accomodate culture, but to better reflect scripture and the heart of God.
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