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THINGS WE MUST ACCEPT BY FAITH (2)

There Are Only Two Genders

Victor M. Eskew

 

          When humanity turns from God, society plunges into chaos, confusion, and corruption.  This is evident from Paul’s discussion of the Gentile world in Romans 1:18-32.  Several verses describe their departure from God.  “Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful…” (Rom. 1:21).  “And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things” (Rom. 1:23).  “Who changed the truth of God into a lie…” (Rom. 1:25).  “And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge…” (Rom. 1:28).

          The result of that departure involved idolatry.  “…and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever.  Amen” (Rom. 1:25b).  Their departure from God also resulted in homosexuality.  “…for even the women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:  and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the women, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men, working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet” (Rom. 1:26-27).  In addition, they corrupted themselves with all kinds of sinful atrocities.  “Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness, full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful” (Rom. 1:29-31). 

          One would think that nations would learn from the mistakes of other nations, but this doesn’t seem to be the case.  Sadly, our nation has been departing from God rapidly over the past several years.  Some individuals in the United States are like the Gentiles.  They do “not like to retain God in their knowledge.”  This departure has resulted in our forsaking common sense in order to embrace all kinds of nonsense.  Our apostasy has resulted in our having no desire to practice righteousness, but instead, to engage in all types of unrighteousness.  Our government, our schools, the medical community, and the media often take the lead in promoting lies and ungodliness. 

          One of the doctrines of the godless is that there are more than two genders that exist in the world.  The latest official number of existing genders is 72.  These genders have all kinds of unique names.  Here is a list of the first twenty-seven:  “agender, abimegender, Adamas gender, areogender, aesthetigender, affectugender, agenderflux, alexignder, aliusgender, amaregender, ambigender, ambonec, amicagender, androgyne, anesigender, angenital, anogender, anongender, antegender, anxiegender, apagender, apconsugender, astergender, Astral gender, autigender, autogender, and axigender.  There are forty-five more that could have been listed. 

When a person identifies as a particular gender, he is then free to choose his one pronouns.  The following is a partial list taken from the LGBTQ Nation website.  The article is entitled:  “An (incomplete) list of gender pronouns.”

 

Subject       Object                   Possessive            Possessive             Reflexive

                                                Determiner           Pronoun                Pronoun

 

ce                cir                         cir                         cirs                       cirself

co                co                          cos                        cos                        coself

cy                cyr                        cyr                        cyrs                       cyrself

ey                em                         eir                         eirs                       emself

he                him                       his                        his                        himself

hey              hem                      heir                       heirs                     himself

 

All of this is confusing enough to those who have not embraced gender fluidity.  Unfortunately, there are two other things that add to the chaos.  First, we are told that gender is fluid.  Therefore, a person is free to choose a different gender from day to day.  A “she” can be a “she” today and a “he” tomorrow.  Second, those who claim to be gender fluid want to be called by their appropriate pronouns.  However, they do not have to reveal to you what those pronouns are.  If you say the wrong one, you are immediately labelled as some type of “phobe” who hates and discriminates against those of a different gender.

          The Bible is very clear when it comes to genders.  God made only two, male and female.  “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them” (Gen. 1:27).  And again:  “This is the book of the generations of Adam.  In the day that God created man, in the likeness of him; male and female created he them…” (Gen. 5:1-2).  Jesus affirmed this truth during His earthly ministry when He was asked a question about divorce by the Pharisees.  “And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female” (Matt. 19:4). It is interesting that not only is this true of human beings, but it is also true of animals as well (Gen. 6:19; 7:2, 3, 9, 16; Lev. 3:1, 6).  When the Bible speaks of different roles and positions, it always divides them between the two genders that God created:  men and women, husbands and wives, fathers and mothers, sons and daughters, kings and queens, bondmen and bondwomen, he and she, and gods and goddesses.

          The fact that there are only two genders, male and female, used to be understood and accepted by all.  Anyone who asserted anything to the contrary was looked upon as rejecting God, science, and common sense.  It is alarming that the President of the United States has to sign an Executive Order declaring that there are only two genders in order for our society to embrace the concept.  Dear readers, many have forsaken the true and living God.  They have embraced doctrines of devil (2 Cor. 4:3-4).  As children of the Almighty God, we must stand boldly in opposition to the corruption that is around us (Eph. 6:10-14).  We must be the lights that shine in the darkness (Phil. 2:15).  We must never yield to the insanity that surrounds us (Matt. 5:13).  We must make certain that we hold up the light of truth in a dark, dark world (Matt. 5:14-16).