Yes, generally I’ve avoided “patriarchy” despite it’s perfect representation of all God’s creation. I believe in God the Father Almighty…
But Joseph pointed out the liabilities. Speech is often incoherent if we don’t take into account the new and perverse meanings assigned to old, good words—“gay,” for instance.
Concerning the “it doesn’t matter if it’s good” declaration, it was meant to jolt us out of our incessant weighing of what God has made and spoken. Isn’t there much Scripture telling us our judgments are worthless? What do we know of wisdom? What do we know of fairness? What do we know of truth? What do we know of righteousness? Of sin? Even (and maybe especially) of our own sin? Much of the work of the pastor consists of seeking to disengage souls from trusting their own judgments, turning instead to God’s Word.
If the father and mother don’t say some such thing to their children while raising them, their children don’t know the world God made. My mother used to respond to my “why?” given in response to her command with “because I said so.” Love,