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So You Are Intersex
Can you imagine being on the receiving end of this email: In 2017, a few weeks after I mailed a tube of my saliva to a company that offers genetic testing to provide ancestry breakdowns and insight into
Continue reading...The Relation of the Soul to the Body
I am leaning heavily on the work of J.P. Moreland and Scott B. Rae in their book, Body and Soul: Human Nature and the Crisis in Ethics (IVP, 2000). They construct a defense of Thomistic Dualism, the view
Continue reading...The Soul and Gender
In his journal article, Four Theses Concerning Human Embodiment, Gregg R. Allison quotes Justin E.H. Smith’s definition of embodiment as “having, being in, or being associated with a body.”
Continue reading...Does God Have Gender?
“The first person of the Godhead chooses to name himself ‘Father’ (and not ‘Mother’) to indicate the respect and honor that is due him, as he anticipates in the created order the role that he
Continue reading...Can Gender Be Separated from Biology?
“I am female,” Jackie Blankenship says. “That’s the only body I know.” That’s her declaration in an online article titled, “I’m intersex — 4 facts you don’t know about me.”
Continue reading...Is Gender Mutable?
When Moses tells God that he cannot go to Pharaoh and tell him to let God’s people go, because, Moses says, “I am slow of speech and tongue,” God says, “Who gave human beings their mouths? Who
Continue reading...How Gender Can Go Wrong
She went to get her chromosomes tested. 46,XY karyotype, it turned out, the typical male chromosome. She had no uterus but looked female, with a vagina (albeit one that did not open into a cervix or womb)
Continue reading...Does the Bible Define Gender?
I was asked to teach a course at church on Biblical manhood. What are the characteristics of a godly man? As I examined Scripture it became apparent to me that the characteristics of a godly man weren’t
Continue reading...How Do We Define Gender?
During the confirmation hearing for Ketanji Brown Jackson as supreme court judge, Senator Marsha Blackurn of Tennessee asked the nominee, “Can you provide a definition for the word ‘woman’?”
Continue reading...Garden of the Gods: The Garden of Israel
What does God want for His nation, Israel? What does He want for all His people, for that matter? Exactly what He wanted in the beginning. 24:1 Now when Balaam saw that it pleased the Lord to bless
Continue reading...Glorious and Depraved (20): Redeemed Humanity
Perhaps the most amazing fact about the human race is that the second person of the Trinity, the Son of God, took on human nature and became one of us. 14 Since the children have flesh and blood, he
Continue reading...Glorious and Depraved (19): The Need for Deterrence and Grace
Because humans are inveterate sinners and, if left to themselves will only do evil continually (Genesis 6:5), God has purposed to put roadblocks in our way to delay us in the pursuit of evil. Futility Right
Continue reading...Glorious and Depraved (18): Human Agency
Human beings have agency, that is, they are responsible for their decisions and actions, being determined by their reasoning and active power. They are and can be held accountable for their choices and
Continue reading...Glorious and Depraved (17): Inherited Sin (Part Two)
Inheriting Adam’s sin means inheriting his guilt, and it also means inheriting a fallen nature. Every child born into this world is… …born destitute of original righteousness, and the subjects of
Continue reading...Glorious and Depraved (16): Inherited Sin
Genesis 5 tells us, When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God. 2 He created them male and female and blessed them. And he named them adam when they were created. 3 When Adam had lived
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