text: I think we can agree that an understanding of the times helps us to better understand some of the scriptural stories, and I even accept the idea that we aren't perpetually bound to those vocabularies (my Aramaic and Koine Greek are particularly atrocious :-) ).  I do think that there are ideas which we have little choice but to accept, however, like Jesus pointing to the Heavenly Father, even in the repetitions of the Lord's Prayer that we are to offer "when [we] pray".  That isn't the fullness of the story but  (and here is where we may disagree) it is a part of the story that cannot be easily cast aside as a matter of mere patriarchy.