Maybe ask them to explain Gen 1:27: “So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.”
He’s just as much female as he is male, and vice versa. “He/Father” appeals to a patriarchal society, but Jesus had a good proportion of female followers, and it was some of them that discovered the empty tomb. God is neither male nor female, or both, depending how you look at it.
Maybe ask them to explain Gen 1:27: “So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.”
He’s just as much female as he is male, and vice versa. “He/Father” appeals to a patriarchal society, but Jesus had a good proportion of female followers, and it was some of them that discovered the empty tomb. God is neither male nor female, or both, depending how you look at it.