Biblical Theology - God’s Good Creation

February 25, 2023February 26, 2023

Body Shame & Playing God

I’m confident that Therapist Stephanie Winn captures something which is at the root of Gender Ideology and its current affirming practices: shame of our created bodies.

[And, I might add, a desire of those pushing this ideology for humans to be their own creators.]

“….it’s the idea that the body is wrong and the mind is fine. That seems like an interesting way of defending against shame. If you look at the facts that so many of the vulnerable young people who are presenting with gender dysphoria are autistic. Many of them have trauma history. They’ve been bullied they’ve been abandoned.

We know these kids are over represented in Foster Care and Adoption, right? So often times there’s a deep attachment wounds, deep issues with having a loving stable connection with one’s family. So the natural responses to that is shame and inadequacy, right? And that shame can be so painful and so overwhelming. It really takes a lot of maturity to learn how to integrate our shame and tolerate it.

So this idea that there is nothing wrong with me, my identity, my mind, my psyche, it’s my BODY THAT’S WRONG. That’s why I’m different. It’s a really convenient explanation for defending against the shame of…the ones who’ve been bullied because they are autistic…they don’t understand how to process that. They don’t know why they’ve been moved and made fun of but they sure feel badly about themselves. So there’s already enough shame there. So it’s very tempting to have something that says: ‘oh, this why I’m different, this is why I’ve been made fun of, then I don’t have to feel that shame.’

The idea of therapy though, proper exploratory therapy, our watchful waiting, feels intrusive because if you’re walking around with this intolerable level of unprocessed shame that ‘there’s something fundamentally wrong with me, there’s something corrupt about me that people just don’t like and I don’t know what it is and I don’t know how to control this.’

Full Interview. [Standard link disclaimer¹]

These confused kids seek healing. They don’t need the easy answer that “something is wrong with your body. So let’s ‘fix’ that.” The harder answer is to process that pain and shame with the goal of accepting the whole self, body and soul. And, from a Christian point of view, help them understand the entire Christian restorative process. We were given bodies as humans because God meant us to have them. And God intends to restore body and soul, visible and invisible, earth and heaven, completely. That’s what the Church should teach those within, and those without.

We are fully accepted by God as we were created.

Companion Post & Podcast

Trans-Industry Sterilizing A Generation & Creating Med-Patients For Life

Disregarding The Body – Podcast

I’m a Classic Christian and think Gender Ideology is anti-creational to the core. This blog is about “God’s Good Creation.” That’s why I’m writing about Gender Ideology. And “speaking up” as I’m confident Jesus would.

"Have you not read that the one who made them at the beginning 'made them male and female.'" [Matt 19:4]

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-1-3884x3024.jpeg — **The Natchez** by Delacroix – 1835
Oil on Canvas
Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Love Refuses To Affirm Confusion.

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February 2, 2023February 2, 2023

First ‘Gender-Queer’ Priest in the Church of England

As a Christian, I know that separating the soul from the body is the definition of death. Those who believe their ‘authentic self’ has nothing to do with their physical body are engaged in a death wish.

Christians who love God and their neighbor cannot affirm such a wish. And we surely should not ordain as pastors the deeply confused.

**Church of England Priest Bingo Allison** prefers they/them pronouns (Image: Bingo Allison)

Church of England priest on how God guided them on their journey of becoming queer

To Bingo Allison’s knowledge, they are the first openly non-binary priest to be ordained in the Church of England.

It was while writing an essay on how God created the earth that Bingo had an epiphany. They said the language which the bible originally used in Genesis 1:27 spoke about “from maleness to femaleness” as opposed to men and women.

They added: “I was sitting there in the middle of the night when I realised I might need to run my life upside down. It was a deepening spiritual experience, I properly felt God was guiding me into this new truth about myself. One of the things that has kept with my ministry ever since is that transition and coming out can and should be a spiritual experience, as well as an emotional and social and sometimes physical one. There is something beautiful about growing into who we were created to be and growing into our authentic selves.”

I suspect we will soon hear of a few other Christian denominations that have also fallen into this death trap.

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God Help The Body Of Christ

January 8, 2023January 8, 2023

The Massacre Of The Innocents

Description

According to St Matthew’s Gospel, after hearing from the wise men of the birth of Jesus, King Herod ordered that all children in Bethlehem under the age of two be murdered. Bruegel set the story as a contemporary Flemish atrocity so that the soldiers wear the distinctive clothing of the Spanish army and their German mercenaries.

The artist also drew upon his experience of the exceptionally severe winter of 1564-5 to describe a village covered in snow, with icicles hanging from the rooftops and the pond in the foreground thickly frozen over.

Bruegel’s Massacre of the Innocents was a popular image, repeated numerous times mainly by the artist and by his son, Pieter Brueghel the Younger.

Source: Royal Collection Trust (UK)

The Massacre of the Innocents by Peter Paul Rubens (1638) – Alte Pinakothek – Munich – Germany

Toward the end of his life, however, Herod became increasingly paranoid about potential coups and had several of his sons and his most beloved wife, Mariamne, executed to forestall what he feared were attempts to overthrow him. At one point, Augustus ironically remarked that he would rather be Herod’s pig (which a Jew would not kill) than his son (whom Herod would kill). Although recorded in Latin, the remark probably preserves a play on words in Greek because of the similarity between hus (pig) and huios (son). Thus, although there is no independent confirmation of the story in Matt 2:16 of Herod ordering the massacre of the young children of Bethlehem, the account is entirely in keeping with his character and actions at the end of his time in office.

Craig L. Blomberg, Jesus and the Gospels: An Introduction and Survey, 2nd Edition. p 21–22. [emphasis mine]

Matthew 2:16-18

When Herod saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, he was infuriated, and he sent and killed all the children in and around Bethlehem who were two years old or under, according to the time that he had learned from the wise men. ¹⁷Then was fulfilled what had been spoken through the prophet Jeremiah: 

¹⁸ “A voice was heard in Ramah, 
wailing and loud lamentation, 
Rachel weeping for her children; 
she refused to be consoled, because they are no more.” 

(NRSV)

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