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Was the Bible edited? Sure, of course. In fact, my mom was one of the editors. But I suspect you're looking for more than a copy editor. The idea that the Bible was constantly edited and re-edited in a way that changed the core meaning simply has no evidence behind it. Whenever we find an earlier source for scripture, whether old or new testament, it by and large confirms what we think scripture says.
Brandy's point is ridiculous. Beyond the issue of how the other 'gospels' hang with the NT as a whole, there's the simple fact that most, if not all, of these other gospels were written much later than the gospels which were accepted by the early church. Accepting them to be better sources for what happened in that first third of the first millenium is not mere religious hypocrisy, it's good history.
Is the word for "God" gender neutral? As Akula points out, Greek, like German, has grammatical gender. In Greek, I'm fairly certain, the word used to refer to God as a whole is masculine. I'm almost positive that the word(s) referring to God the Father is masculine. And we all know that Christ was male. However, spirit in Greek is feminine. So what is God? Well, the grammatical gender of the nouns just isn't going to help us much here (any more than the fact that "girl" is neuter in German isn't going to convince me that German girls aren't feminine.) So is God masculine or feminine/male or female? I suspect that, if anything, God is masculine. But I suspect more strongly that God is beyond these categories.
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"Die Deutschen meinen, daß die Kraft sich in Härte und Grausamkeit offenbaren müsse, sie unterwerfen sich dann gerne und mit Bewunderung:[...]. Daß es Kraft giebt in der Milde und Stille, das glauben sie nicht leicht."
"The Germans believe that power must reveal itself in hardness and cruelty and then submit themselves gladly and with admiration[...]. They do not believe readily that there is power in meekness and calm."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
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