In the Game Show “Family Feud”, the host speaks the phrase,
“survey said”, before giving the answer to a question. I recently encountered another version of the
Family Feud. I will call it, “The World
Says, but God Says!”
I was taking an on-line survey to earn points to redeem for
goods at select vendors. The survey
asked you to identify your gender. When
I was a child that either meant male or female.
The survey I was completing had several more options to choose from. Beyond female and male, the survey listed; non
binary; transgender male; transgender female; and pansexual. I thought to
myself, “I thought the bible said God created maIe and female? So, I went back to the source, the
bible. I turned to Genesis in my NLT, New Living
Translation, bible to ensure there was not some translation done that I may
have missed. No, it said God created
male and female.
Genesis 1:27. “So God created human beings in his own
image. In the image of God he created
them; male and female he created them.”
So where did these other gender definitions come from? The survey was using one of the world’s
latest definitions of gender. “The World
Says.” That’s when we as Christians need
to add the qualifier, “But God Says!”
Romans 1:21-24 talks about what is behind man’s creation of all
types of variations from what God intended.
Romans 1:24. “So
God abandoned them to do whatever shameful things their hearts desired. As a result, they did vile and degrading
things with each other’s bodies. They
traded the truth about God for a lie.”
The world has created a different variation of gender to fit
our human behaviors and choices. There
is an attempt to transform what God created as male and female, into supplemental
humanistic categories of gender. The human or civil rights of people to do
what they want and live as they want is often used to justify these new gender
choices.
When you hear a worldly answer that seems suspect in truth,
ask yourself, “What does God say?” Then
go to the bible for THE ANSWER! Is the human answer/definition part of God’s
will or God’s plan?
The world appears to be in an era of “human rights”. The impetus on human rights is that humans
can be and do whatever they want, just because they can. We are told that we have to respect those
choicesD. Whether the human right is a God given right seems to be a question
never asked. When you are confronted
with a human interpretation that seems to conflict with your understanding of
what God intended, refer to the source document. The Bible.
