Change

Our language is changing to become more gender neutral and many jokes are made of how this can effect the meanings. Sometimes it is ridiculous as when woman is changed to wo person or man hole cover is changed to person hole cover. Other times is seems more acceptable as in all people are created equal or husband and wife vs man and wife. Today in church the minister quoted Matthew 4:19 changing the verse from fishers of men to fishers of people. This might be in between the above examples. Will the new versions of the bible be changed to fit the new ideas on gender. Would it be like changing some of the notes in Beethoven's ninth. Do we now have poetic license to change other parts of the bible. Is God the Father acceptable. Is all this just a fad or will it stay around. How does gender change other languages. In German for example das Madchen is the word for girl and it is neutral while der Hund is the word for dog and it is masculine and die Strasse is the word for street and it is feminine. This involve pronouns that are strange to us. A ball landed in the middle of the street becomes a ball landed in the middle of her. When you start down the road of making changes you never know where it will lead. Change can be a good thing or not.