Monday, March 20, 2017

The Kingdom of God vs the Post-Genderists

We were designed to comprehend God and our relationship to God as his children in the context of us being mind, body, and soul as we relate to God in Spirit. Our sexuality, as an integrally woven part of our being, was designed to intersect with all of these aspects of our being.
That is why Scripture has strict guidelines so that the sexual aspect of our being accomplishes its purpose of playing a role in uniting us with God himself, even as it unites us across male and female and brings flavor to our human existence.
God is not merely interested in saving the soul, but in redeeming our whole being. And so the redemption of our sexual identity is part of that salvation now and forever. Even in the new heaven and new earth we will have bodies that will be recognizable as men and women, even as the resurrected Jesus was recognizable as a man to those who he met before his ascension.
Even while there will not be the act of sex in the new heaven and the new earth leading to pro-creation, our identities as men and women will operate into eternity and have meaning into eternity. As Revelations teaches that every tribe and nation will be represented in heaven, so human distinctives ordained by God will be represented in our redeemed bodies including the first human distinctive created and ordained by God – the God created sexes of male and female operating in the God-ordained genders of man and woman.
And so in the Kingdom of God, we are designed to find joy in how we were made in God’s image in the sexes of male and female operating in the genders of man and woman. So it is essential that we appreciate the sexual identity that God has endowed us and submit to the understanding of our sexuality that God has endowed us with in his Word.
The heterosexual man operating in sexual sin seeks validation for his manhood, not in God and in the joy of being made in God's image, but in sexual conquests.  This "player/womanizer" man and another man who feels he is something other than heterosexual both share a crisis in their sexual identity, the latter being in a more advanced state of identity crisis than the former.

The neo-gnostic post-genderists in the church like Paris Jennel Williams would bow in moral deference to the secular, cultural marxist, and sexual leftist culture allowing its “wisdom” to over-ride Scripture. They would attempt to put a Christian gloss over the leftist agenda to remove gender by also somehow claiming to care about sexual holiness without caring about gender holiness. In the name of protecting sexual identity as something "too important" to define, they have actually anointed themselves as being important enough to try to redefine sexuality away from how Scripture has defined it.


What Paris and her ilk don’t understand that sexual unholiness and gender unholiness are fruit from the same tree, both related to each other, both feeding into each other. Sexual unholiness expresses a crisis of sexual identity in its more nascent stage that becomes gender unholiness in a more advanced stage of a seared conscience. It is only by being humble to what Scripture teaches about sex and gender holiness that our sexual identities are redeemed as God intended them to be. 

What does it mean for the church to have the confidence and clarity to reject the neo-gnostic post-genderists, to speak into to the confusion of sexual identity in all of the ways that it manifests itself? I want see the church find its way out of its current confusion to enthusiastically and passionately present the truth of Scripture as the answer to the crisis of sexual identity of our time.

Thursday, March 16, 2017

Feminism-Lite and and the Danger of Sloppy Equality

After having declared war on male and female nature, the next frontier for the extreme sexual left is to try to question and redefine sexual biology itself in favor of post-genderism.
I have maintained that the church needs to be watchful of the extremes of the secular, sexual left as it counters the encroachment of the sexual leftism into the church. The secular left is a few steps ahead of where the Christian left is headed, and the extremes of the secular left represent the more obvious pollution of the well that the Christian left has been drinking from.
Christian feminists like Amy Buckley think they are representing only the egalitarian values and ideals of “first wave” feminism and not the more obviously ugly and unbiblical second, third and fourth waves of feminism. They try to operate with a feminist-lite sloppy equality, treating a feminism as the necessary thing propping up Scripture, when they are actually breaking Scripture over the wheel of their feminism.
The nuanced, complimentary picture of men and women representing different aspects of God’s image revealed in Scripture is incompatible with the sloppy equality and mere union of physiological differences offered by Christian feminists. The Scriptural prescription for how men and women are to cherish and respect each other is incompatible with Christian feminism’s sloppy equality as the way to prevent one sex being a dictator to the other sex.

Friday, March 3, 2017

The Church vs Leftism

Much of the church has yet to fully comprehend Leftism as movement that is equal parts political, social, ideological, and spiritual. Each one of these four facets of Leftism compliments and reinforces the other three facets of Leftism.
Generally speaking, the church understands the social and political symptoms of Leftism: sexual immorality, porn, divorce, abortion, the erosion of freedom to live openly as a Christian, etc... but not Leftism itself, as the unique evil in our age that is driving and encouraging those sins. The church understands the Biblical language of spiritual battle, but does not fully understand how Leftism has taken people's minds captive, as the spiritual battle of our time on the macro level, as the ideology that lies at the root of the existential crisis driving people into sexual immorality, as the defective moral compass directing people into spiritual death in the name of being politically correct. The church understands traditional Christian doctrine, which was provided to us by those who clarified it against the heresies of the past, but the church does not understand how to clarify the Gospel against the modern heresy of Leftism.
The church has a lot to learn from those like Dennis Prager and other secular thinkers who have stared hard into Leftism to understand, classify and categorize its dangers, particularly in the realm of the social, political and ideological.
The church also has a lot to offer those in the world who take the threat of Leftism seriously, by explaining how the Kingdom of God offers the only real, durable answer to Leftism, as the only thing that addresses every facet of Leftism including the spiritual facet.
The church will only be effective in ministering to people out of their Leftism when it first identifies Leftism as the reigning counterfeit idea of the age, and carefully clarifies the Kingdom of God against Leftism.

Wednesday, March 1, 2017

What's in a Word? The Long-Game Of the Sexual Left

Words are such that they have whole ideas, philosophies and worldviews baked into them. A word itself is like a thesis encoded into letters, such that you must understand the idea to fully understand the meaning of the word, and uttering the word reinforces the idea that word exists to express.

The thesis that is "baked" into the terms "man" and "woman"/"men" and "women” is that there is a universality to human sexuality: that men and women express a whole greater than the sum of their parts and that the differences between men and woman are durable and predictable across time, space and culture.  The terms “man” and “woman” are buttressed by what I have described as the "three legged table" of purpose, design and role: men and women have, respectively, a unique purpose, and from there a unique design to express that purpose, and from there a perogative for unique space in the culture to express that purpose according to their design.

The LGBT… movement does not believe that men and women actually exist, rather only biological human males, females, and hermaphrodites having different bodies, chromosomes and genitalia. Any favored expression of sexual differences above biology is merely the imposition of a cultural artifice that gives one form of sexual expression the false dominance of normalcy over other forms of sexual expression, giving one set of biologically different human creatures the power to oppress another set of biologically different human creatures.  

So that is why the LGBT….. movement is not simply interested adding "lesbian", "gay", "bi-sexual", "trans-gendered" ... to the already existing terms “men” and “women”, but in coming with their own alternative terms to undermine the terms "men" and "women". One of their terms, “hetero-normal” is intended to convey the idea that being a “man” is merely a normative lifestyle choice for the biological human male to conform to among other lifestyles. Complimenting “hetero-normal” is “cis” as the term to describe someone who identifies the sex they were born with.  So a man is no longer merely a “man” but a “male cis hetero-normal”.   And then you have the movement to promote "ze" instead of "he" and "she". 

The long-game of this LGBT… word play is to enable the sexual "individualist" to come out from under sexual "conformity" imposed by the terms "man" and "woman", and to remove the stigma for those who do not feel/believe that they are either a man or a woman.  In reality, these "alternative" terms represent the linguistic front of a larger social engineering effort to impose a new conformity to an the idea that sexuality is not bifurcated into the binary of man and woman. 

People do not set out to be evil, but rather walk backwards into being evil, often because they believe that they are doing the right thing, passionately.  So the LGBT… movement is engaged in evil, promoting sexual confusion by believing that it is promoting justice.