Gender Identity Crisis

1 This is the book of the genealogy of Adam. In the day that God created man, He made him in the likeness of God. 2 He created them male and female, and blessed them and called them Mankind in the day they were created.

Matthew 19:4 NKJV

4 And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’

Title - Gender Identity Crisis

Series - Bible Answers to Social Issues

Background

Gender Identity Disorder (or Gender Dysphoria)

Baker Encyclopedia of Psychology and Counseling (Gender Identity Disorder)

Gender Identity Disorder. People with a strong and persistent identification with the opposite sex may have gender identity disorder. Children and adults with this disorder express in words and actions symptoms of gender dysphoria: a strong desire to be a member of the opposite sex. They may say that they belong to the other gender, although they do not believe it. Rather, they feel that they have been assigned to the wrong sex.

Children with gender identity disorder prefer to dress, wear their hair, and play as the opposite sex. Girls reject attempts to dress them in sex-appropriate clothing. Both girls and boys may prefer the urinary posture of the opposite sex. They express disgust about sexually maturing in their assigned sex. They dream and fantasize that they will mature as a member of the opposite sex.

Adults with gender identity disorder attempt to a significant degree to appear and behave as a member of the opposite sex. Both in private and in public they commonly will cross-dress. Many adults with this disorder will try to look more like the opposite sex through hormonal treatments, binding or enhancing undergarments, and—for men—removal of body and facial hair. About three times as many men as women will seek to surgically alter their sexual anatomy, a behavior known as transsexuality.

Rise of gender identity terminologies

SEE - Whatr are the 4 Genders? 7 other Genders (Evernote)

SEE - 81 Genders

Sex alone does not determine gender

Sex is determined by 3 aspects

physical - culturally male/female/intersex

personality - typical behavior in life, either male or female pursuits

preference - how one wants to express the self, emotionally, romantically, sexually

Personal observations - most of these gender identities are really “disorders”

agender

gendervoid

transgender

God and His Creation

God created humans male and female

Genesis 1:26–28 NKJV

26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27 So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. 28 Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

Genesis 1:31 NKJV

31 Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

Mankind has only 2 genders

Genesis 5:1–2 NKJV

Sin’s effect on creation

a self-expression of good and evil

Genesis 3:4–7 NKJV

4 Then the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. 5 For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” 6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings.

a corruption on aspirations

Ecclesiastes 7:29 NKJV

29 Truly, this only I have found: That God made man upright, But they have sought out many schemes.”

a denial of truths that led to further corruption

Romans 1:18–29 NKJV

18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, 19 because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them. 20 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse, 21 because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Professing to be wise, they became fools, 23 and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man—and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things. 24 Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves, 25 who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. 26 For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. 27 Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due. 28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting; 29 being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they are whisperers,

The Roots of the Problem

Denial of the Creator-God

in order to escape accountability

a result of ignorance

The rise of anthropo-centric views

man is the center of universe

self-happiness is the goal of life

Laodicean spirit (people’s rights)

The pursuit of self-expression

in exchange of God’s will

in search of meaning for evolutionary existence

The Solution to the Problem

Acknowledge the Creator-God over one’s life

to recognize God is to acknowledge that one was created by God

to acknowledge one’s created status is to have a purpose for existence

Acknowledge the presence of sin and the need of a Savior

the problem of sin is real

the problem of sin is beyond man’s ability to resolve

faith in Christ’s finished work resolves the problem of sin

Acknowledge God’s design for one’s life

Design determines purpose

man and woman were created to compliment each other

Genesis 2:18 NKJV

18 And the Lord God said, “It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him.”

Genesis 2:21–22 NKJV

21 And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. 22 Then the rib which the Lord God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man.

1 Corinthians 11:3 NKJV

3 But I want you to know that the head of every man is Christ, the head of woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.

1 Corinthians 11:7–12 NKJV

7 For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God; but woman is the glory of man. 8 For man is not from woman, but woman from man. 9 Nor was man created for the woman, but woman for the man. 10 For this reason the woman ought to have a symbol of authority on her head, because of the angels. 11 Nevertheless, neither is man independent of woman, nor woman independent of man, in the Lord. 12 For as woman came from man, even so man also comes through woman; but all things are from God.

Purpose gives order and meaning to existence.

Revelation 4:11 NKJV

11 “You are worthy, O Lord, To receive glory and honor and power; For You created all things, And by Your will they exist and were created.”

Isaiah 45:18 NKJV

18 For thus says the Lord, Who created the heavens, Who is God, Who formed the earth and made it, Who has established it, Who did not create it in vain, Who formed it to be inhabited: “I am the Lord, and there is no other.

Ephesians 1:3–5 NKJV

3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, 4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, 5 having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,

Isaiah 43:6–7 NKJV

6 I will say to the north, ‘Give them up!’ And to the south, ‘Do not keep them back!’ Bring My sons from afar, And My daughters from the ends of the earth— 7 Everyone who is called by My name, Whom I have created for My glory; I have formed him, yes, I have made him.”

Conclusion

God created us uniquely different by design.

Let us abide by God design for each of us.

Let us find contentment in our devotion to God.

Godliness with contentment is great gain.

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