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The Gender Dilemna
Contributed by Craig Benner on Oct 29, 2019 (message contributor)
Summary: Man seems to have trouble understanding what God has made so very clear. There are only two true sexual identities. All the rest are mans' intent to become his own god.
Gender Dilemna
Sex is the biological identification and classification
Gender is the perceived social acceptance of individual characteristics of a person
Romans 1:21-28 God does not play games with respect to our sexuality.
In 2018, Facebook claims to have identified 58 genders. Here are 7 of the main ones they came up with.
7 Genders Beyond Male and Female
Agender.
Cisgender.
Genderfluid.
Genderqueer.
Intersex.
Gender Non-conforming.
Transgender (Trans Male or man, Trans Women or female, Trans Person).
God has never had a problem with diferentiating the terms sex and gender. Man = male Woman = female
Ge 5:2 Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
As holiness people, we have battled the breakdown of the distinction of the sexes for generations.
-types of clothing Deut. 22:5
-hair 1 Cor. 11
-place of subjection Eph. 5:22-24; 1 Tim. 2:10-13
-primary responsibilities Titus 2:5
God has given us many admonitions about the distinction between a male and a female. He never once refers to any other gender. We must remain stedfast on the principles that God has laid out in His Word.
The world and the devil have tried to destroy the distinction for a long time. Women wearing britches and cutting their hair was just the first step down a very slippery slope. Then men began do grow their hair long and started wearing feminine style clothing. Unisex styles have been a hot topic among many of our holiness churches for some time. It seems that Satan has now decided to take things to even a more vile level.
The philosophy today is to let each person self-identify what their gender is. Well, I got news for you. God decided that for you before you were even born. A person can have surgeries and do a bunch of hanky panky to make them somethnig else, but God designed each one on us according to His will and we are not gods to change any of that in the book of heaven.