A culture that ignores God replaces Him with something lesser. Much is lost as a result. Our enemy in the Garden deceived Eve into thinking she could replace God. She fell for it, Adam did nothing about it. This has devastated every culture since.
Let’s review:
- What is now driving our culture? The pursuit of happiness.
- Where is our culture now looking for that happiness? Sexual brokenness.
- What is the main means our culture uses to ensure it can achieve what it seeks? The sovereignty of personal “Choice.”
No longer is faith, hope and love animating our approach to sexuality. Now, the three guiding tenets of our culture are “happiness,” “brokenness” and “choice.”
God created us to seek our joy in Him. So in our fallenness that inner drive that should be seeking to accelerate towards God is bent inward instead. Its main pursuit and preoccupation is happiness found in the things of this world—the broken and fallen things of this world. While this has always been the bent of man’s heart, now, it is even more a prime motivating factor for how people live.
Keep in mind also, every other person in my orbit is responsible to participate in my drive for happiness. Not by simply allowing me to do what I want but cheerleading me as I do it, making obstacles disappear for me, allowing me to be sovereign over the pursuit including how you are a part of it.
- This is what makes our cultural moment so tense and volatile: we fear that unless we can get others to validate our pursuit of happiness that we won’t be happy.
Our discussion of human sexuality must begin at creation: Genesis 1-2.
A main reason why the modern discussion about sexuality is so fractured—why the sexual acronym now officially is LGBTQQIP2SAA which stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, queer, intersex, pansexual, two-spirit (2S), androgynous and asexual—why this is so fractured is because the culture is looking to answer a fundamental question about humanity apart from any influence of the One who made humanity.
Imagine an aborigine who was scooped up from the Australian outback, taken to LA and given keys to a mansion and a Rolls and then left there. What’s the likelihood he would know what to do with anything in that house or with that car? Probably 0%. Why? He has no idea what these are—they are foreign to him—he doesn’t know how to use any of them because he has no experience with any of them; he has no instruction manual for them. And, apart from a long process of education, he would likely end up sleeping in the backyard, eating the squirrels and setting the place on fire—just like he’d do at home.
Let’s begin our study of creation citing statement #2 from the Ad Interim Committee Report on Human Sexuality:
We affirm that God created human beings in his image as male and female (Gen. 1:26-27). Likewise, we recognize the goodness of the human body (Gen. 1:31; John 1:14) and the call to glorify God with our bodies (1 Cor. 6:12-20). As a God of order and design, God opposes the confusion of man as woman and woman as man (1 Cor. 11:14-15). While situations involving such confusion can be heartbreaking and complex, men and women should be helped to live in accordance with their biological sex.
Nevertheless, we ought to minister compassionately to those who are sincerely confused and disturbed by their internal sense of gender identity (Gal. 3:1; 2 Tim. 2:24-26). We recognize that the effects of the Fall extend to the corruption of our whole nature (WSC 18), which may include how we think of our own gender and sexuality. Moreover, some persons, in rare instances, may possess an objective medical condition in which their anatomical development may be ambiguous or does not match their genetic chromosomal sex. Such persons are also made in the image of God and should live out their biological sex, insofar as it can be known.
Bent World 