For those to whom God is an important concept, is there anything important at stake in the pronouns that refer to God? Thousands abandoned their churches to seek a more congenial experience in cults and groupings where a goddess was supreme. Some embraced the opportunity to open every aspect of church life and governance to women. Refusing to use either pronoun, instead saying "God" or "God's" at every reference, merely produces linguistic constipation along the lines of "God Godself cares with God's son for God's creation". But "they" and "their" won't work readily for God either even though one of the biblical words for God (Elohim) is plural.

Source: Otago Daily Times February 07, 2019 15:45 UTC