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Denying God’s Fatherhood Denies Fathers

Denying God’s fatherhood, motivated by a misplaced affinity for diversity and inclusion, or perhaps a deep feeling of pain from our own broken or non-existent relationship with our fathers, results in the unintended byproduct of further disconnecting us from the fact that we all need fathers.

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Among the more aggressive contemporary Christian reconceptualizations of God is denying His fatherhood. Texas state Rep. James Talarico (and the Democrat nominee for the Senate) has declared that God is “nonbinary” and referred to the divine as “Holy Mystery.” Many self-identifying Christians agree, arguing that “they/them” are the best pronouns for the divine. Denominations, such as the Episcopal Church (USA) and the United Church of Christ, allow entire liturgies to refrain from using masculine words to describe God, or to refer to him by all types of pronouns. Many feminist theologians pray to an exclusively feminine God.

In a strictly religious sense, this trend, if theologically erroneous, is understandable: Theologians through the centuries have said that God is spirit and incorporeal, and thus He is neither a man nor a woman. In a broader political sense, it is less so — when feminists and others seek to describe God as “nonbinary” or as a woman, they are less so making a sophisticated theological argument than a ham-handed one about women’ s rights.

Yet regardless of whether we are talking religion or politics, the impetus behind abandoning masculine descriptions of God is misfounded and self-defeating. This is because the theological reasons for calling God “Father” find support in the natural order we all inhabit, and thus to deny His fatherhood is to implicitly deny fatherhood altogether, with disastrous consequences for us all.

The Biblical Stupidity of Abandoning God’s Fatherhood

We should first note that rejecting God’s fatherhood flies in the face of the biblical narrative. As Peter Kreeft argues in his excellent new book Every Word in the Lord’s Prayer, “Father” was the word Jesus most frequently used to describe God. Across the four Gospels, Jesus calls God “Father” more than 150 times! “And if that was good enough........

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