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By Gloria Pierre Dean
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He made the planets, trees, insects, animals, rain, rivers and seas with their currents. In Genesis, we are told that He chose to make good things.
“God saw all that he had made, and it was very good” [Genesis 1:31a}
As Jehovah–Bara, The Lord The Creator;
He created humans; Adam the man and Eve the women. Two people of two genders.
He made them different from each other and yet designed for them to be one in marriage.
“Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall be one flesh” {Genesis 2:24}..
In His loving wisdom, God designed people to have free will. He did not want obedient robots.
However, some of His creations chose not to be good. “The serpent was the shrewdest of all the wild animals the LORD God had made” {Genesis 3:1}.
It was subtle, skilled in deceit and promoted evil. He deceived Eve, the mother of all humanity.Thus evil was sewn into humanity and it is still sprouting today throughout the world.
In failing to obey God’s word implicitly, a door was opened that cursed God’s creation. Today we live in a world where sin and evil is glaringly evident.
One radical evil first became evident in the city of Sodom.
Then the LORD said, “The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so grievous”.{Genesis 18:20}.
Men of Sodom were aggressively sodomizing men.
“But before they lay down [to sleep], the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both young and old, surrounded the house, all the men from every quarter; 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.” {Genesis 19:4-5}.
The enemy of our soul continues to this day to invade the world with this deviant stronghold that even leaders in politics, media, entertainment, education and sadly, some churches promote. In many cultures, men or women are legally allowed to choose their gender, thus performing in public and private lives their deviant stolen identity.There are women and men choosing or being tempted to have sex with people of their gender.
Recent media news reports of men pretending to be or identifying as female in order to compete in female sports; thus assured of winning the race.
Paul wrote of the origin of this global dilemma..
Firstly, “For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened”; regarding people failing to believe in God.
Secondly; “They..” the unbelievers, “.. exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator.” {Romans 1:21-22, 25}
The sad seemingly inevitable result, that “ God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men. {Romans 1: 24,26-27}.
Futuristically, there is hope for unbelievers.
So repent [change your inner self—your old way of thinking, regret past sins] and return [to God—seek His purpose for your life], so that your sins may be wiped away [blotted out, completely erased], so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord [restoring you like a cool wind on a hot day]; {Acts 3:19 Amp}.
God created two genders for His world in order for children to be borne and for the sharing and using the incredible variety of giftings in people, thus showing Himself in people everywhere.
Matthew’s writings tell us; “For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven”.{Matthew 22:30].
In The Kingdom of God, summarized as the everlasting realm where God is sovereign and Jesus Christ rules, gender transition, confusion and disorientation will not exist!
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