Posted on 01/25/2020 2:34:50 PM PST by pastorbillrandles
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.(Ephesians 5:25-31)
I have categorized this current series as “Gender” although I really do not like that term. Why did I use it? Because it is a “buzz Word” which attracts a lot of attention and which is the cause of much confusion in our modern Spiritual warfare. Ours is a semantic struggle, the Devil is confusing people with Words.
Originally Gender was but a grammatical category in linguistics. Certain Words in some languages are assigned gender, there are male and female words. the word ‘gender’ has since been politicized and inserted into the cause of sexual anarchy.
What is the difference between “Sex” and “Gender”? It is the difference between concrete and Jello. Your sex is a fixed state of being, assigned to you by your Creator, you are either a man or a woman.
Supposedly your gender has to do with roles expected of others, or chosen by yourself in this world of human autonomy.
God created you and I as sexual beings. We have been created as either male or female, in the Image of God. Our very chromosomes testify to that Divine assignment. Sex is a true category of humanity, it is a physical, biological, spiritual reality. One can embrace their sexual role, or rebel against it, but you can never change it, for it goes deeper than different body parts.
“Gender” is a more fluid term. It has to do with expected roles for men and women in society and culture. The modern theory is that various “gender roles” are mere social constructs, and can be modified, expanded, discarded, reshaped into completely different forms, and even jettisoned at will.
Thus in our modern society we have so many women propagandized by feminism who refuse to bear children, enter into a marriage, and who reject everything female about themselves; such as tender nurturing, and vulnerability. They have been told they can be autonomous women, and have it all, in a good many cases they strive to be like men!
A good many modern men have either been conned into developing and embracing their own “feminine side” as well, or who have been coarsened to accepting the new masculine women. According to “gender theory” , a person can be anything they want to be, and can define their own gender if the “binary” choices are insufficient to define them as they see themselves.
“Gender” is a concept which perfectly expresses modern man’s rebellion against the Creator who assigned specific sexualities and the roles which inevitably go with them.
In the old Judeo Christian world, women were seen as ‘the weaker vessel’ and worthy of respect and honor. The fact that they bore children gave them a protected status as mothers, givers of life. No civilized society would send their women into combat, for the simple reason that women are the nurturers of life. Young women were protected in their homes, parents were involved in courtship and marriage.
Likewise, Men were seen as protectors and providers, a man was to venture forth to make provision for his family. A man who would not provide for his own was seen as a disgrace.
Obviously, people being people, no society, Judeo Christian or otherwise, ever lived entirely consistent with their own ideals.
These roles were not just Biblically prescribed, biology itself dictated these behaviors. Women have wombs, they bear children, they are mothers…thus they are accorded certain respect. Men are stronger and more aggressive, thus they are equipped to be providers and protectors. This is not to say women haven’ t worked very hard alongside of men, for they have. For most of human history, mere survival was always an open question to be answered. What I am saying is that Creation, scripture and even physical reality put men and women into two distinct sexual roles.
It is only the ultra wealthy, abundant, high-tech societies in the late stages of decadence, that can seem to afford the switch from sexual roles (Assigned by the Creator, and reality) to the confusion of fluid, autonomous Gender roles. The confusion on this level of identity is a sign of our own demise.
Our civilization is dying. God makes millstones big enough to tie them around whole civilization’s necks. We are as doomed as the Canaanites were in the Bible.
Whose idea was it to allow tranvestites into elementary schools to teach children? How can there be a future for people brainwashed into thinking there are 57 to 70 Genders? What people have survived, after propagandizing children into questioning their seuality before they even have a capacity to think about it?
Sex is something fun you do with your girl, preferably your wife.
Gender is something that goes “honk”.
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One just has to look at the derivation of the word matrimony to know that it’s just our insane generation that has tried to make marriage anything else than a man and a woman coming together
Gender has always referred to a person’s sex until very recent years. “Personal identity” is another redefinition of words used by leftists to mold the world to their preferred view by twisting the language.
Enjoyed the article.
>> Our civilization is dying
That’s a tad pessimistic.
>> 57 to 70 Genders
At this point, the more the better. It’s rapidly becoming an ambiguous, useless term. Perhaps the question should concern one’s preferred color instead of his/hers/its... preferred gender.
Indeed. The language assassins new exactly what they were killing.
bkmk
Some places in the world allow same-gender liasons... euphemistically called MARRIAGES.
MAKING SOMETHING LEGAL doesn't make it right.
same-gender liasons
abortions
“.....The X & Y Variations disorders include.... XXY OR Klinefelter Syndrome...., XYY (Jacob’s Syndrome) , XXX (Triple X)....There are several variant disorders which include Tetrasomy X, Pentasomy X,....XXXX, ...XXXY, ... XXYY, and,.... XXXXY. .....”
No.
Like abortion.
Neither does calling something your job makes it right.
I think working at an abortion clinic in any capacity can’t be explained away.
And having anything to do with a “gay marriage” can’t be explained away.
Gender is an invented term stolen from linguistics that basically adds ‘and whatever your imagination thinks’ to the definition of sex. Sex is the older more precise and more appropriate term.
It’s the same thing. All attempts to say otherwise are just wordsmithing stupidity.
If you would read the article BigBob, you would find no Wordsmithing...I am asserting the Biblical view of sex, thatthere are only two ans the rest is degeneracy... thanks for your input however...
It is odd to constantly hear Christians fall back on the scientifically proven facts about chromosomes and their role in human development and then to completely ignore the actual, scientific fact that it’s not as simple as XX and XY.
On contrary, it IS as simple as X and Y. The chromosomal abnormalities that you refer to in your post are the result of non-disjunction during one of the two divisions of meiosis which is the process by which gametes (eggs and sperm) are formed. Depending on when it occurs, some of the cells end up with no X or Y and some end up with two. If they are fertilized by a normal gamete that has only one sex chromosome, you can end up with XO, XXX, XYY, etc. Since there are very few genes on the Y, a zygote without at least one X is not viable.
My caution to these trans-gender advocates is that, no matter what you do to change the outside or inside of your body with hormones or surgical procedures, there is NO WAY to change what is inside the nucleus of all of the somatic (non-sex) cells of your body. Except for the chromosomal abnormalities mentioned above, your cells will have two X chromosomes (biologically female) or one X and one Y (biologically male).
By the way, I am both a Christian and a biologist and scientist. I have a MA degree in Biology and a degree in Medical Technology. I have been teaching both subjects at my local community college for over 36 years.
I agree with you that surgery, cross dressing, or hormone therapy will not change the chromosomes that God gave us.
However, I would hope you would also agree that those who feel that there are only XX “females” and XY “males” don't really know what they are talking about.
I am reminded of a famous “woman” Olympian athlete who was disqualified as when later examined she was not an “XX Female” but who later gave birth and had her reputation restored.
While a cross dressing male, or even a surgically altered “male” competing as a woman is obviously “not appropriate” I do wonder if some who appear to be a typical woman from birth but have an uncommon chromosome variation, should be barred from competing in women's sports.
Just my opinion.
P.S. I consider myself religious (have actually gone on pilgrimages), and don't feel that God makes genetic mistakes, but has a plan for all of his creations. I also don't like the idea of surgically altering what he has created by reshaping genitalia.
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