How Many Sexes or Genders are There?
Genesis 1:27 says:
“So God created man in His own image, in the image of God, He created him; male and female he created them.”
There are only two genders, or sexes if you will. Male and female. (Prior to 1955, the word “gender” was used only in reference to grammatical categories, but has since been used to make distinctions between biological sex and gender as a role, thanks in part to psychologist John Money.) That’s it. Science affirms what the Bible says—a male is born with XY chromosomes and a female with XX chromosomes. On a very rare occasion, someone may be born with, say, XXY chromosomes, but a person is considered immutably male if the Y chromosome is present.
This is basic biology. But people suppress the truth with unrighteousness (Romans 1:18). Do you know what we used to call a man who called himself a woman? A pervert. Insane. Out of his mind. Anything but a woman. Yet our depraved culture is now punishing people who agree with the laws of nature. (Autumn Scardina, a man who dresses like a woman, sued Colorado cake baker Jack Phillips because he would not make Scardina a specialized “transition” cake.)
In Matthew 19:4, Jesus said:
“Have you not read that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female?”
Jesus is God, who Himself “became flesh and dwelt among us” (John 1:14), and He came as a man, “born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons” (Galatians 4:4), or heirs of His heavenly kingdom. God will judge those who have broken His law. Only those who believe in the Son and His word will be saved.
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen His glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. (John 1:14)
But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth His son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. (Galatians 4:4-5)
…God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous. (Hebrews 13:4)
Kiss the Son, lest He be angry, and you perish in the way, for His wrath is quickly kindled. Blessed are all who take refuge in Him. (Psalm 2:12)
If you had a dollar for every gender, you would have two dollars. Everything else is counterfeit.
…when we understand the text.
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