In the Beginning, God Discriminated

I received this tweet earlier today:

oh if only god could see how discriminatory you are. oh wait! he can cant he :( isnt that exactly what the bible says not to be? cry me a river lmao

— aves has not brought out the tiger (4/4 slots) (@avamondaze) March 31, 2020

I was writing about the fact that people in this country are getting tired of being reminded, prodded, shamed, and reprimanded about the so-called hardships of "transgendered people".

Seriously, why are we expected to feel sorry for people who are in bondage to a mental disorder, and then insist that the rest of us should feel sorry every year? This idea of "Transgender Visibility Day" is absolute nonsense.

In fact, when parents are molding their children to change their sex, it's nothing more than child abuse!

So, this pro-tranny activist shamed me because of how discriminatory I was. She wanted to bring God into the mix, and she/he/it (who knows!) made it seem as though my thoughts on denouncing transgenderism were unbiblical, unholy, unkind.

Well, she ought to open the Bible, and she will find that In the Beginning, God Discriminated!

First, let's provide the defintion of discrimination:

"recognition and understanding of the difference between one thing and another."

Granted, there is another definition which touches on prejudicial or preferential treatment for one category or thing versus another, but let's focus on the main definition provided above.

In the Beginning, God Discriminated.

Consider the first verse of the Bible:

"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." (Genesis 1:1)

God created, no one else did. God created the heavens and the earth. When the earth became without form and void (following the fall of Satan and one third of the angels), God would clear distinguish, or discriminate between the heavens and the earth again:

"6And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. 7And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. 8And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day." (Genesis 1:6-8)

Notice that God divided the waters, so that the heavens and the earth would emerge as distinct entities. That's the essence of discrimination.

Before separating the earth and the heavens among the waters, God brought forth Light:

3And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. 4And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness." (Genesis 1:3-4)

God literally said "Light Be", and light was. This Light is not the sun, but His Son, Jesus. As He declared during His earthly ministry:

"Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life." (John 8:12)

At any rate, light stands out clearly and starkly from the darkness: more discrimination. There is darkness, and there is light. Light is called to be the focal point, as well. God is light, after all, and in Him is no darkness whatsoever (cf 1 John 1:5)

There one sees both types of discrimination. God gives precedence to the Light over the darkness, not just merely distinguishes the light from the darkness.

And that's the way it should be:

"17And he is before all things, and by him all things consist. 18And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence. 19For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;" (Colossians 1:17-19)

In the beginning, God discriminated.

He distinguished heaven and earth. He distinguished light from darkness. He created fish from the sea, mammals from the earth, as well as grass and herbs.

He then created man, and He created man in His likeness or image (Genesis 1:26-28).

Man is qualitatively different from all the other creation.

Why, because God said: "31And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day." (Genesis 1:31)

When God made man, He declared His work finished (another discrimination, finished before unfinished), and He called all of it "Very good" as opposed to "good."

These distinctions are fundamental, essential, and inescapable.

In the Beginning, God Discriminated, and It was Good. It was Very Good.

Male and Female He Created Them (Deal With It!)

The attack is on.

SJWs on the ground (Credit: Fibonacci Blue)

The Social Justice Warriors (“SJWs” for the younger generation, who have endured their disruptive folly in full force on college campuses) have not stopped with redefining marriage.

They now attack the very notion of male and female. Transgenderism has turned into a splintered political movement, and the culture wars, in connection with this latest destructive fad, are putting pressure on state governments, private businesses, and individual Americans.

President Barack Obama enjoys another dubious distinction, as the first president to mention “transgender” in a State of the Union speech. He has spoken out against the common-sense North Carolina bathroom bill, and just met a non-binary Pakistani in Great Britain during an open forum.

She (or he, or what?) admitted she was really scared to tell the President, since she had not really told anyone else:

“Now I am about to do something terrifying, which is I am coming out to you as a non-binary person, which means that I don’t fit”

A few questions follow: How can she not fit? She has a female name, and no one had a problem with her.

If she has a problem (yes, I am going with “she” since she identified herself as “Maria”), it begins and ends with herself.

Then she whined to the President:

“We literally have no rights …”

Lady, rights do not get to run rough-shod over reality.

All this “non-binary” nonsense should cause you and me to do a double-take.

Gender is not just a social construct. Biology is more than a matter of belief, but fact.

Yet the Trans-SJWs view gender as bereft of any sense or value.

From Boy George’s gender-bending performances in the 1980s to the Transgenderism movement afoot (afloat, afoul!) across the United States, male and female are blending or leaking into different norms, labels, constructs.

Stop!

There are two genders, or two biological realities: male and female.

The DNA in every individual reveals this blessed reality. No matter how much cosmetic, reconstructive surgery a person undergoes, the DNA in one’s flesh will read XY (Male) or XX (Female).

Deal with it!

Granted, in heaven, we will be redeemed sons and daughters of our loving heavenly Father. Our identity will rest in more than gender. Jesus explained this deep and moving promise to the materialist, skeptical Sadducees (who tried to trip Him up over the Resurrection):

29 Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God. 30 For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.(Matthew 22: 29-30)

Yet male and female God created humankind:

27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Notice that the divine image of God was imprinted into His chief creation, and this divine stamp of approval included the binary distinction of male and female.

Let’s face this fundamental fact: gender sparks and shapes the divine nature which God intended us to have. The distinction of male and female informs the entire universe that we are God’s creation!

There is so much more we can see about God’s love for us in designing humankind into male and female:

How did God form the man? Straight out of the ground:

7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. (Genesis 2: 7)

The Man has an earthy aspect to him. He can handle the rugged, the rough, the rumble and tumble of life. He came first, and he is responsible to lead.

What about the female? Yes, She came from He. But let’s understand this origin properly:

21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; 22  And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. (Genesis 2: 21-22)

Notice that the man slept. He was not involved in the process, but rested in God’s goodness to produce a “help meet for him.”

Now, I candidly admit one of my long-held, mistaken assumptions about the Bible. I used to believe that God took the rib out of Man, then drew the dust from the ground and surrounded the rib to create another person.

Yet clearly, that’s not what the Word of God teaches.

Yes, Woman came from the dust, but in full accuracy God took the rib and transformed that one part into an entirely new person, Woman.

She is refined. She is special. She is delicate. She may come from the God, but indirectly, from Man.

She is also blessed with  the opportunity to bring a new life into this world, just as the rib in every body generates new blood!

Male is distinct from female. There is no changing this God-breathed binary blessing. He is denim. She is silk. Both serve as clothing, but for very different purposes.

Instead of trying to change or reject these God-given differences, it’s time for the Body of Christ, from the feet to the top of the head, to embrace and celebrate these differences.

As for the rest of the world, they just have to deal with it!:

9 Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands? (Isaiah 45: 9)