SUNDAY POST – “Male and Female He Made Them”
27 So God created mankind in his own image,
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them.28 God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”
29 Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food.” And it was so.
31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.
GENESIS 1:27-31
I was told recently that philosophy is the “attempt to explain the world without God.” I had never heard it summarized so simply and succinctly. As I wade through the never-ending ideologies and critical theories that regularly self-contradict and devour themselves, this explanation rings more and more true.
I wish we could answer all these radical ideologues who are no-doubt searching for some kind of meaning and purpose in their lives:
“Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” John 8:32.
The truth is freeing, not confining.
Before the Left eradicated the Bible from mainstream culture (and we Christians permitted it), it would have been very simple to answer the gender debate. How many genders are there? Well, let’s see… open the Bible to the first chapter of the first book, and the answer is pretty clear: “male and female he created them.” I searched the Bible for “intersex,” but nothing came up. Strange.
The Bible also makes clear these qualities about God: he is sovereign, holy, omnipotent, omniscient, immutable, wrathful, and finally,..love. (Yes, God is love… there is no “Love is Love.”)
So then, how is the Almighty getting it wrong (more and more these days….to the tune of a 4400% increase over the last ten years) by matching the wrong souls to the wrong gendered bodies? Did he zone out for a moment and zap a bunch of boy “identities” into girl bodies? A cosmic oops?
No. God does not do “oops.” God spoke about children through his son, Jesus:
“Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. Truly I tell you, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.” Mark 10:13-16
Clearly, there is a special place in the Almighty’s heart for children. By contrast, there appears to be a special wrath for anyone who would harm them or lead them astray.
“It would be better for him to have a millstone hung around his neck and to be thrown into the sea than to cause one of these little ones to stumble.” Luke 17:2. Reference this 9-4-22 Sunday Post.
To the activists: who are you to tell a child that God got them wrong… that he didn’t love them enough to understand them…and further remove any opportunity for them to understand the actual nature of God. There world becomes so bleak that after they have sought wholeness by cutting off their breasts or genitalia, they are still more likely to commit suicide than a child that hadn’t transitioned… 19 times more likely.
To approach this from a different direction, let’s put ourselves, for the briefest of moments, into the “shoes” of Satan. So, the sole purpose of Satan… also titled the “god of this world” (2 Cor 4:4), the “father of lies” (John 8:44), the “evil one” (Matthew 13:19), and the “prince of darkness” (Shakespeare)… is to destroy God’s creation, specifically the imago dei, (man created in God’s image), chiefly by putting as much distance between God and man as possible. With this goal in mind, surveying all of God’s creation, where would you start with your agenda of destruction? Genesis 1, perhaps? The first chapter of the first book, maybe? Destroy male and female. In doing so, you thus destroy marriage and the family. These are the bedrocks of Christian life, and he knows the Bible better than most Christians do (well, except for that part in the end, apparently). After all, it didn’t take long (Genesis 3), for Satan to cause the fall of mankind. From the beginning, he has sought to destroy the relationship between God and mankind because that relationship brings peace, joy, and life.
“Satan, who is the god of this world, has blinded the minds of those who don’t believe. They are unable to see the glorious light of the Good News. They don’t understand this message about the glory of Christ, who is the exact likeness of God.” – 2 Corinthians 4:4 (NLT)
So when an activist calls you hateful for defending children or standing for the truth, while they pontificate that “gender affirming care” is the only loving, accepting, nurturing, even life-saving option for “Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria,” consider the role the “father of lies“ is likely playing in all of this. If he prowls the world, looking for someone to devour (1 Peter 5:8), our children are certainly being devoured by this ideology. Will you stand by and allow it to happen?
Returning to Genesis 1, on the 6th day, after creating man and woman, God “saw all that he had made, and it was very good,” No mistakes were made.