He created them male and female,
and he
blessed them and called them "human."
Genesis 5:2
Facebook has
decided there are 51. New York City offers only 31 choices, but that number
will increase soon because humanity is giddy with excitement over its new toy: gender selection. We have decided
that we can choose our gender the way we choose a flavor of ice cream. However,
gender is no more our choice than whether or not we breath oxygen. God has
declared that there are only two: male and female. Our gender is assigned to us
at conception, through our DNA, just like race, height, and eye color. No
amount of body mutilation or mental confusion can change what God has declared.
Our value is not
up for a vote either. God established the value of human beings in two distinct
ways: when He breathed His own life
into Adam (Gen. 2:7), and when He took on flesh to became
one of us (John 3:16). God did not become a puppy or a
dolphin. He took on human flesh because humans were most like Him, with a
spirit like He has. No sane person lays down his life for a goldfish, a rabbit,
or evolved pond scum. When God sent His Son to rescue us, He declared the value
of human life. No matter what we’ve done, our value can’t change because God
already set it. Your gender is His choice; your value is His choice. Every
human being, male or female, is created in God’s image, useful for God’s
purposes, and worth God’s Son.
Just as you cannot
change your gender, you cannot change your value. God has already set them
both.
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