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In principle, people possess the ability to understand generic "he." But some do not or will not. The basic problem is ideological clash. These problems are symptomatic of deep cultural sickness that has boiled over into elitist standards of linguistic usage. Any culture is sick if it stumbles over a story of a wise man building his house on the rock, or a father warning his "son" about the loose woman. Such a culture is resistive, as The American Heritage Dictionary puts it, to "a particular pattern of thought." It resists using a male representative to express a general truth. Many things are needed for its healing. At the center is the gospel of Christ Himself. But if there is sickness here, we do not help the sickness by sickening the Bible a little in order that the sick person can be more at home with it.
Vern Poythress, Gender in Bible Translation: How Fallicies Distort Understanding of New Testament Passages (1998)
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