The Truth About Gender
Genesis 1:26-27
Scott Luck
Part of Truth Over Trend
February 20, 2022

“According to gender theorists, it is impossible to base gender on biological facts because we cannot objectively know those facts—or any other facts either. After all, we can make sense of facts only when we interpret them, and all interpretations are conditioned by our culture and history. Every definition of what it means to be biologically male and female is a product of cultural forces.” (Nancy Pearcey)

Genesis 1:26-27

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

Idea #1: There are two genders

Idea #2: There are many genders

Two genders: Where does this idea come from?

Matthew 19:4-5

He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? (Matthew 19:4-5)

1 Corinthians 11:11-12

Nevertheless, in the Lord woman is not independent of man nor man of woman; for as woman was made from man, so man is now born of woman. And all things are from God.

Does the idea that there are two genders correspond with reality?

What are the consequences of the idea that there are two genders?

Matthew 19:4-6

He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”

Genesis 2:25

And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.

Genesis 1:28

And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it …”

Many genders: Where did this idea come from?

Does this idea that there are many genders correspond with reality?

What are the consequences of the idea that there are many genders?

John 8:44

He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

2 Corinthians 4:4

In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.