A Christian Understanding of Sexual Equality & Identity

 

How can Christians adhere to marriage as between one man and one woman for a lifetime when there are so many other options?  And how can Christians really believe there are only two genders, male and female, when Facebook recognizes as many as 60? And why are Christians so intolerant about birthing persons, thinking them instead to be mommies?  And worst of all, why do Christians seem so intolerant about sexuality?  And why do Christians think the only context for sexual expression is marriage? Why indeed are Christians so close minded and intolerant about all these things?  These are some of the questions we considered in University Chapel last week, as I presented A Christian Understanding of Sexual Equality, Sexuality, & Identity. You can see and hear that presentation here at Regent Video Player.

Considering why Christians seem so intolerant on these issues, we looked at three specific points, and demonstrated how these very aspects of our faith as believers that make us seem so intolerant are also the very same truths that will make us empathetic, sensitive, and understanding in relation to the world, and to our neighbor.

Jesus Christ and a personal relationship with Him is the solution – He is always the right answer. 

So can we still believe in God when Christians are so intolerant?  A biblical view of gender equality and sexuality is no barrier to loving others, or to belief in God.  Rather, I argue it is the very pointer to authentic belief in the Almighty God, the Lord Jesus Christ.  And instead of these issues creating a sense of intolerance, they are the very truths to increase our sensitivity, our empathy, and our ability to love people toward the gospel, and lead them to the Lord Almighty, Jesus Christ.  This is personal restoration.  This is family restoration.

As Dietrich Bonhoeffer so aptly stated, “God calls us in history to enter – not escape – the drama of this world.” 

Resources for Sexual Equality & Identity

Craig L. Blomberg, Can We Still Believe in God? (Brazos Press 2020).

Carl Trueman, The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self (2020).

Lynne Marie Kohm, A Christian Perspective on Gender Equality, 15 Duke J. Gender L. & Pol’y 339 (2008).

Sam Allberry, Is God Anti-Gay? The Good Book Company (2015).

Lynne Marie Kohm, Diane J. Chandler, and Doris Gomez, Christianity, Feminism, and the Paradox of Female Happiness, 17 Trinity L. Rev. 191 (2011).

Resources for Parents & Children Navigating Gender Dysphoria:

Website: Transgenderism in Virginia https://vatransgenderism.weebly.com/overview.html

Parenting Resource Guide: Responding to the Transgender Issue, Family Policy Alliance (Minnesota Family Council 2019), www.genderresourceguide.com  

S. Ernie Walton, Gender Identity Ideology: The Totalitarian, Unconstitutional Takeover of America’s Public Schools on: SSRN/

Doctors Have a Legal Duty to Protect Children in Gender Transition, https://regentfamilyrestoration.blogspot.com/search?q=Bell.

Amicus Brief for Keira Bell, et al. Amicus-Brief-Detransitioners-as-filed-7.07.2021.pdf (childparentrights.org) (2021).

Debra Soh Biden administration’s gender identity policies are contradictory and unscientific | Washington Examiner

Abigail Schrier, Gender Ideology Run Amok, 50 Imprimis, June/July 2021.

Gender Resource Parent Guide, Family Policy Alliance, GenderResourceGuide NPRG_Full_Document_Links_V18.pdf.