Did God Create Humans Male And Female - And Non-Binary Or Trans-Gender?

The mother of a high school student told me that a few kids in the youth group said they were non-binary (also known as ENBY or NB) and were questioning the Bible about its two sexual gender emphasis. That disturbed me deep in my spirit which led to this message.

I started ministry decades earlier by speaking to the church about homosexuality and how to address the subject by dealing with it using the Bible from a transformative grace perspective. I was the only straight person at the initial meeting of what would become the first international outreach ministry organization to the LGBTQIAS+ community, known as “Exodus International.” Its primary mission was to offer the life-transforming message of God's love and forgiveness.

I know of thousands who have been transformed by the power of God’s love. Ever since then, I have been keenly aware of the LGBTQIAS+ societal needs. Sadly, decades later, sexual orientation is still a serious issue that is not directly addressed in today’s church.

“Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. In the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.” (Gen 1:26-27 ESV)

The Bible declares that “God created mankind in His own image, in the image of God He created him (Heb: 'oto' = in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly self); male (Heb: 'zakar' = a biological male) and female (Heb: 'neqebah' = a biological female) He created them” (v27).

The verse is not a figure of speech that expresses two contrasting parts. When God created them as male and female, He did not add the words ‘for your God is neither male nor female’ or use non-binary gender pronouns.

God created human beings as only male or female with anatomical differences and gave them very specific prescriptive roles for each sexual gender (see Genesis 1:1-28, 2:1-24; also Matthew 19:4-6; Mark 10:6; 1 Corinthians 11:11; Ephesians 5:21–32; 1 Timothy 3:1-13; Titus 1:5-9; also Genesis 2:1-24).

The facts are that sexual gender is, and always has been, relevant in the Bible. Sexual gender is essential to God. He is strong yet gentle, defends, and nurtures; He is independent and social because He is like a good father and a good mother. He created both male and female “in his image” (Genesis 1:27). It reveals that humans are the only beings in the universe made in the image of the Creator of all things. The aspects of men and women equally reflect parts of God’s nature.

God is not sexual gender-neutral. He does not say anything about there being a non-binary gender. From the beginning of Creation, God made humans male or female. God chose to incorporate gender sexuality as part of His “very good” Creation (Genesis 1:31).

The cultural metaphysical term "'non-binary" is used to describe anyone whose gender is not included in the socially constructed roles of male or female. This could include dysphoria. Some may experience a more fluid sense of identity or always stay near to their way of presenting how they see themselves.

Others may not identify with any gender at all. Because of this, there are so many different identities that it would be impossible to name them all. A person could be a woman who wears makeup and dresses but still identifies as non-binary. They might even use she/her pronouns. Her gender identity is more about how she sees herself and not from anyone else’s point of view.

The Bible tells us that God did not create people with a non-binary identity, or those that have more than one gender, nor did He let them decide what they would be. There is no sex spectrum. Sexual gender is an "or" proposition, not a "both/and" proposition (See Deuteronomy 22:5; Psalm 139:13). Throughout the Bible, the vast majority of men and women are shown living within the biology they were born with.

Biological males have significant physiological advantages over biological females. In sports the performance gap between males and females reveals itself at puberty and is as high as 50% difference. Biological males have 15-20x more testosterone than biological females and their bone mass is 26-45.5% more than females. Biological males have a higher red blood cell count, lower fat, more muscle, 80% greater tendon strength and lung capacity.

BIOLOGICAL ABNORMALITIES*

The human body is made up of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), a molecular chain like a computer code written in part by nucleotides within the living cells of the body. The sequence of the nucleotides, which are any of several compounds that are the basic structural units of nucleic acids, tells the cells exactly what elements they have to generate.