Hey guys, happy Monday. Welcome to Relatable. I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. I think we can agree now that it's acceptable for us to be listening to Christmas music, but of our Christmas decorations and to be excited about the Christmas season.

There are some of you out there who are like, Baha Humbug until December 24th. You're like, not until Christmas Eve, actually midnight of Christmas Eve, can we even utter the word Christmas?

But I would say that most people have accepted at this point that we can be celebrating the holiday season. So I hope that you guys are enjoying that. I would love to hear some of your Christmas traditions.

I don't know if we had a ton of Christmas traditions growing up. And so I would really like to establish some now that we have a baby and we're our own little family.

And so I would love to hear some of the things that you guys do. That's not what we're talking about today. Maybe I'll talk about it a little bit more because there's kind of a smorgasbord of things that we are talking about today.

But the main thing we're talking about are the thing that I want to talk about first, at least quickly, because I saw this kind of circulating on social media and I've seen it a million times and it's important to talk about.

And that is why God is referred to as a he and why he is necessarily referred to as he believe it or not, there are people who push back on this.

And this is not a new thing. People have been pushing back on this for probably decades, but especially when third wave feminism seems to be at its like all time fiercest and ugliest, they are trying to manipulate God into being something that he is not.

I heard this myth perpetuated on social media the other day that God was never gendered as male in the Bible that it was never really he.

And that actually was added much later because of the patriarchy. That's not true. We'll get into a little bit of that in just a second before we do.

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So go to bolster sleep.com promo code alley that's a L L I E 15% off. You will not regret it. Okay. So we're going to answer a few questions today that you guys have. I get so many emails, so many messages every day. Either asking like personal advice or ask me what I think about a particular biblical passage or an opinion that someone is shared on social media or a new story.

And I don't have time to be able to answer them all. Although I love I love to answer you guys. I love to message you guys back when I have the opportunity. I just am not always able to. So today I'm taking some of the questions that you guys have.

And one of the questions that I've been asked multiple times and like I said, I've seen this kind of circulating on social media is is God necessarily a he in the Bible. And this is different than our typical theology Monday podcast in which we take.

You know, one subject, one theme, one cultural happening. We say, okay, here's what the Bible has to say about this thing. Here's how Christians from a biblical perspective can analyze this particular topic.

We've been going through most misused last week. We did Matthew 7 and 1 judge not less you be judged and how that's often decontextualized and misapplied. We've done Psalm 37.4 to light yourself in the Lord and he will give the desires of their of your heart.

What that actually means and we will pick back up on that we're going to do that series here and there you guys have been sending me a lot of verses that you want to dive into and I'm excited about that.

But today I just want to take some of your take some of your questions and the things that you guys are interested in knowing a little bit more about or talking about because I don't always have the opportunity to do that on social media and via email when you send them.

So like I said, this idea that God may not be a man that he could be a woman, you know, the Ariana Grande song that God is a woman.

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