Posted on 06/03/2017 2:55:35 PM PDT by Jandy on Genesis
It is extremely difficult to have a reasonable and intelligent conversation these days about gender. The distinction between male and female is no longer clear and we must talk over the loud and intrusive noise of transgenderism. Nevertheless, in the context of Biblical Anthropology, scientific observations touching on maleness and femaleness can and should be made. These observations focus on two related topics: the male-female relationship and the greater reality to which it points, and the binary logic of the male-female set as it is presented in Scripture.
Clearly, this discussion is not for readers whose ground for determining morality and relevance is social norms and personal experience. This is an in-house conversation among people who adhere to the Messianic Faith and regard the Old and New Testaments as a primary authority.
Neither is this discussion one that Feminists will appreciate.
(Please read the full article at Virtueonline, if interested.)
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Hey, what caused you to excerpt your own material?
Wow!
You’re really serious about promoting your own material here.
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/by:jandyongenesis/index?tab=articles
“The distinction between male and female is no longer clear”
Nonsense.
So how much money do you make pimping your stuff here?
How does Free Republic measure up to the other places where you pimp your material?
Are you purchasing drugs?
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LOL! OK, that one was pretty funny.
I rarely agree with you, but in this case I agree with your hatred of this type of thread and OP. Absolutely unacceptable garbage.
Wrong; in the Scriptural context complementarity itself does not mean male and females are equal in position and function
In complementarity,
And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. (Genesis 2:18)
"For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man. Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man. For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels. Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord. For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God. (1 Corinthians 11:8-12) "
Thus while male and female complement each other, yet there are functional and positional distinctions.
But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God. (1 Corinthians 11:3)
Also, God made male and female uniquely compatible and complementary, and only joined opposite genders together in marriage, as the Lord Jesus Himself specified. (Mt. 9:4-6)
Not interested enough in clickbait just so you can make money.
Especially if one only talks to those unreasonable and unintelligent.
Genesis 18:20-21
20. Then the LORD said, "The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so grievous
21. that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know."
Genesis 19:4-7
4. Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom--both young and old--surrounded the house.
5. They called to Lot, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them."
6. Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him
7. and said, "No, my friends. Don't do this wicked thing.
Leviticus niv
18:22 Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable.
20:13 If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.
Isaiah 3:9 The look on their faces testifies against them; they parade their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to them! They have brought disaster upon themselves.
2 Peter 2:13b Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.
Ezekiel 16:49-50
49. "`Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy.
50. They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen.
1. But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them--bringing swift destruction on themselves.
2. Many will follow their shameful ways and will bring the way of truth into disrepute.
3. In their greed these teachers will exploit you with stories they have made up. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.
4. For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them into gloomy dungeons to be held for judgment;
5. if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others;
6. if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;
7. and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the filthy lives of lawless men
8. (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)--
9. if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue godly men from trials and to hold the unrighteous for the day of judgment, while continuing their punishment.
10. This is especially true of those who follow the corrupt desire of the sinful nature and despise authority. Bold and arrogant, these men are not afraid to slander celestial beings;
11. yet even angels, although they are stronger and more powerful, do not bring slanderous accusations against such beings in the presence of the Lord.
12. But these men blaspheme in matters they do not understand. They are like brute beasts, creatures of instinct, born only to be caught and destroyed, and like beasts they too will perish.
13. They will be paid back with harm for the harm they have done. Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.
But there IS hope!!!
1 Corinthians 6:9-11
9. Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived:
Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders
10. nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
11. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
If you could NOT change, you would be in most pitiful shape...
I guess everyone wants to interpret the Bible to fit their own stray thoughts - you did a good job of it ....
Nothing to promote here but truth - no cost - always been free.......
http://www.el-shaddai.org/mandf-home.php
Simple explanation on why God created Male & Female......
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