text: Jesus was born in time and in history.  He was born into a patriarchal Jewish society.  Had he referred to God as amma [mother] instead of abba [father], he would have been stoned to death before he even got his mission in Galilee begun.  In spite of that, he utilized and demonstrated enough images of God as inclusive of both men and women.
  
  Neither Jesus nor God are the problem.  It is the schizophrenic attitude of males that the fullness of God is reflected in a masculinized version.  Unfortunately, this attitude has remained for centuries as the church adopted the attitudes of the society around them, instead of imitating Christ in the Gospels, who utilized feminine as well as masculine motifs to describe himself.  Women are created in the image and likeness of God as are men.  
  
  To answer the question above 'would it be appropriate also to say that exclusively masculine references to God are heretical because they do not express the totality of God's revelation'?  YES!