Who and what is Man? ….male and female He created them…. 1
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Secular concept of Gender: • It is a choice and not determined for you • Can be changed • Body to be changed to minds perception • Gender fluidity • No more clear definitions • Gender not to define behaviour • Abnormality is encouraged and protected by law • “de-genderize” – going gender neutral Biological Reality • XX and XY Chromosomes • Few cases of XXY mostly displayed as Male • Switch the body but full male or female functionality can never be achieved • Trillion cells in the body programmed as either male or female • Remove synthetic hormones and body will gravitate to programmed sex 3
Social Reality • Male and Female Role models are heavily distorted • Advertising: Clichee of stupid male and clever woman • Strong male behaviour frowned upon • Male identity crisis • Women are encouraged to seek out traditional masculine professions • Social structural lines between male and female blurred Homosexuality an equal value choice? • Gay life is encouraged and presented as normal within the educational sector • Traditional family is ridiculed and discouraged through the media and liberal philosophy • Gay life progressive – traditional family regressive The Cynical Agenda • Georgia Guidestones – a credo to evil • Man: Reduce the number of people • God: Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it 4
The Biblical View So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. Genesis 1:27 And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being. • Genesis 2:7 • 18 And the Lord God said, “ It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him.” • 19b But for Adam there was not found a helper comparable to him. Genesis 2 • 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. • 23 And Adam said: “This is now bone of my bones • And flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman, Because she was taken out of Man.” • 24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. • 25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed. 5
To sum up Gender before the Fall: • Man was made male and female (2 genders not 63) Chassidic concept of human wholeness i.e. being complete • Adam needed a helper – suggesting there was a need and Eve had something to fulfil this need • Something was taken away from Adam and it became Eve • Man shall leave father and mother and cleave to his wife (leave and cleave) • They will become one flesh – total unity between them • They were both naked and it was ok - intimacy Gender after the Fall: The curse of the woman: • “I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception; In pain you shall bring forth children; Your desire shall be for your husband, And he shall rule over you.” Gender after the Fall: The curse of the man: • Then to Adam He said, “Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it’: • “Cursed is the ground for your sake; In toil you shall eat of it All the days of your life. 18 Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you, And you shall eat the herb of the field. 19 In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread Till you return to the ground, 6
• What makes a great woman • What makes a great man • Men make bad women • Women make bad men The New Testament View • 22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body. 24 Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything. • 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, 26 that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, 27 that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish. • 28 So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself. 29 For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church. 30 For we are members of His body,[d]of His flesh and of His bones. 31 “For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”[e] • 32 This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church. 33 Nevertheless let each one of you in particular so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband. • 7
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