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26Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, a and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
27So God created mankind in his own image,
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them.
28God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”
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Thanks so much – I’ve been waiting a few weeks for the latest podcast. Thank you so much for raising an obvious point, indeed an absolute fact of biology, yet astoundingly an apparently contentious issue amongst some: that there are men, and there are women. End of. Doesn’t matter even if you are Jewish, Christian, Hindu, an atheist – A man cannot be a woman, and a woman cannot be a man. I would argue that masculine and feminine traits are not inherent nor ‘God-given’ as ‘Gender’ is a social construct completely outside of your biology, and I’m entirely uninterested in what you ‘feel like’ or ‘believe’ you are. A point of language and definition on what was said in the podcast – you cannot have a ‘sex change’, this is another point of obfuscation similar to the use of the word ‘gender’ instead of ‘sex’. It is impossible to change your sex as it is literally written into every single cell in your body, to the point where a drop of blood will reveal the sex of the person it came from, and the shape of the pelvis of a skeleton in an archeological dig will reveal wether that person was male or female. Bravo
Ha! Thanks so much for your feedback. I’m always happy to learn that others have not drunk the Kool-aid of chaos and confusion. God bless you brother!