Okay, so the biggest problem with the quasi-evangelicals justifying their referring to God as “Mother” is not necessarily their feminist ideology or their misapplying actual biblical metaphors (like Matthew 23:37, for instance). Those are serious problems of course, but the real trouble lies in the very area in which they claim continuity with orthodoxy — discipleship to Christ.
What I mean is, it’s becoming more and more common for these folks who see nothing wrong with calling God “Mom” say that their faith is less about doctrinal truth claims and more about “following in the way of Jesus” (or whatever), but what they seem to miss (or ignore) is that “the way of Jesus” was to relate to God as Father. Yes, God is spirit and therefore without gender, but the Son of God exclusively referred to the first person of the Trinity as “Father.” And that is the way he taught his followers to relate to God (Matt. 6:9, etc.).
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