This usually means that referring to God in the male gender means that females are excluded. This would be true if God were just like us, only bigger. I like to tell congregations I am serving that this logic is like taking our ideas about fathers and writing it really BIG in the heavens. That is incorrect. Really, we are created in the image and likeness of God, not God created in the image and likeness of humanity. We call God "Father" because Jesus Christ called him "Father," but this doesn't mean that God is a physical male. God isn't a human at all. The Bible and the traditions of orthodox Christianity understands God as Spirit, with no parts, etc.
As to limiting God, there is no such thing. God is infinite. God goes on and on. So, if you think about it, even when we get to heaven and are in God's presence, we will never get to fully and completely know God because there is no limit to God. We will be able to spend eternity with a newness every moment in getting to know God even more at every moment.



