

One of my professors had an AI policy. Using AI for an outline or to find resources was okay, as long as it was cited with the exact prompt used. I think having rules for how to use AI on her assignments actually cut down on use compared to professors who outright banned it.
I think both you and your pastor are operating at a disadvantage if you are arguing about this from any translation of the Bible. Things have been changed between translations to serve certain interests, and I am saying that as someone who was raised Catholic in the South where the King James Bible was popular. Even going from Old to modern English in the Catholic Bible took away some ambiguity in the verses.
The main reason I bring that up is that, well, I don’t know if you feel this way but I was taught that Judaism is the predecessor to Christianity. And with that, why not look to how some of their texts are written to gain a broader idea of how gender is viewed by the Abrahamic God? Look up “gender” in the Talmud