Sex Changes For Minors - An Assault on Identity

 

We live in a fallen and confused world. I am bewildered over and over again as I watch the ways in which mankind gets turned around in their thinking. Religious confusion is not necessarily one of those areas that troubles me; mankind has been looking for something outside of themselves all the way back to Adam and Eve, and it is inevitable that not everyone is going to find the one true path. I suppose that the fact that people find alternative paths to 'enlightenment' is the root of much of the confusion that we see in the world today. In Romans 1:18-32, Paul tells us of what happens to men when we fail to recognize God as the Head of everything. "For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, 19 because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. 20 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse. 21 For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. 22 Professing to be wise, they became fools, 23 and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures.

24 Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them. 25 For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

26 For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, 27 and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error.

28 And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper, 29 being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips, 30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, 31 without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful; 32 and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them."

We see that mankind has an internal understanding that there is something more than himself in this world. Some individuals in the western world have come to the "logical" conclusion that there isn't actually anything beyond what is right in front of us, and this conclusion is arrived at by way of the exceptional intellect of those individuals, having come to the point of being able to reason beyond natural thought processes of uncivilized and uneducated man - or so they think. But it is funny how religiously they cling to and defend those beliefs; just as much and just as fervently as one defends their religious beliefs. It is a religion that they refuse to identify as a religion.

Yet it is undeniable that throughout history, and even now as remote tribes are still being found and approached for the first time by those of us who have achieved a higher understanding of things, we are finding people groups who have adopted different forms of worship aimed at some higher being, without having been otherwise exposed to religion from any other source. They are looking for something that they can't identify.

I have heard it said that everybody has a God-shaped hole inside of us and we try to fill that hole with all manner of different things, but none of it satisfies our needs. There are always going to be gaps and voids that our work, our relationships, our volunteering, our possessions, etc, just can't fill in that hole. The only thing that will satisfy that longing is to place God there, who will fill all the gaps and voids and will fulfill all of those needs.

When we reject God as the solution and we continue to search for fulfillment everywhere else, God allows our hearts to become darkened (v.21), He allows our foolishness to flourish and to cause us to think that we are wise (v. 22) and He causes our minds to become depraved in our thought processes (v.28). This has been the case ever since God placed mankind on the earth. Yet we have not been lead en mass towards rejection of God until recently, with the advent of the internet and social media. Never before has any individual been able to reach out to so many people with their own thoughts and ideas. 

Just look at this blog as an example. I am a nobody. I have little influence in this world, yet I am able to send my ideas out into the ether and anybody with access to the internet can type in a search word or phrase and my ideas may get placed in front of their eyes for them to consume and consider. It's an awesome thing! Unfortunately, there are a lot of people with pretty whacked out ideas who all have the same opportunity to share those ideas with myriad other people. Too many of those ideas are coming from people who are held in high esteem by society simply because they spent too much time and too much money listening to other people and checking the right boxes to confirm that they have been sufficiently bamboozled and to receive a piece of paper to affirm this. We call these people university graduates and we grant them far too much esteem.

One dire example of the "educated" betters telling society something that is more damaging than good is the entire ideology behind gender and transitioning. To be clear, I think that anybody medically or surgically transitioning from their sex at birth to the opposite sex or some corruption of sex is badly in need of psychological help, not medical help. In fact, until just a few years ago, these ideas were considered a mental disorder as was laid out in DSM5, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 2013. But somehow now we have become too 'advanced' in our thinking to continue to view these things in the same ways that most of the world has viewed them for the majority of history, which points us back to verses 24-25 from Romans 1; "Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them. 25 For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever." The bodies that God designed and created are being dishonoured through this demonic doctrine. If these people and their victims would just stick with the truth and worship God instead of placing the ideas and warped ideologies ahead of God, these problems would literally just go away. That may sound simplistic to you, but I believe that it is the truth. I wonder if anybody has actually examined the spiritual beliefs of those who promote for others or pursue for themselves these radical sex changes. It could be fascinating to find that out.

I have wondered about how in the world, or maybe why in the world, the devil would want to encourage this. My first explanation is simple and I honestly thought that it stopped here. Satan wants to destroy or corrupt anything that God has made and has done. Satan cannot create anything; all he can do is to take something that God has created and has said is good, or very good, and distort it away from the original design. I still think that this is a major purpose of the devil's for this angle of attack, but there may be something else as well.

I recently came across an interesting thing that someone noticed about the fall of man in the Garden of Eden as is found in Genesis 3. As we read the story of the temptation in the garden, of course we know that the serpent approached the woman first, who succumbed to the temptation, and then gave the man of the fruit and he succumbed as well. What is interesting to note in the story is that prior to the temptation and fall of man, the woman did not seem to have a name. In Genesis 2:20 we see that the man was named Adam, but we have to wait until after the fall of man and after God proclaims judgment on all parties to read that Adam gives the woman a name; Genesis 3:20 "Now the man called his wife’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all the living." This verse is immediately after the conclusion of the account of the fall of man.

There has been much speculation about why it was that the serpent approached Eve, or the woman, instead of Adam in order to tempt them. The way that we read the story, it appears that Adam may have been right beside the woman at the time of her temptation, and apparently did not intervene on her behalf - which would be the first failure of man to protect woman. There is, however, the possibility that the woman was deceived while she was alone with the serpent and that she then took the fruit and offered it to Adam to eat, either having told him from which tree it had been taken or not; we really can't be entirely sure of how it all played out from the way it is written. It is understood that the man knew where the fruit came from and to my mind, this makes sense spiritually; that is in light of the punishment that God felt was due to be meted out..

To my mind, if the woman had taken of the fruit and then given of it to Adam who consumed it without knowing what it was, Adam could have been presumed innocent. It is conceivable that God would have then punished only the woman and the serpent for their parts and man would have likely been made to be an overlord of sorts over the woman. But that is not how it played out. Adam was found to be as guilty as the woman in the failure to obey and he bore a heavy punishment for his own failure, telling me that even if he was not with the woman when she ate the fruit, he did know what he was eating.

What was interesting about what was noted is that Satan approached the person who did not have an identity. As I said, Adam had his name since the second chapter of Genesis, but it appears that the woman was only named after the fall. She did not have a name to be called by and she had not been involved in the work in the garden prior to her creation. She only came to be in the garden after the animals had all been identified and named. The woman was the only creature on the entire earth that had no identity other than that she had been taken from man.

Does Satan target those who do not know who they are? Is it easier to fool and to warp the thoughts of somebody who does not have a basis of understanding about who they are and where they fit into society? That could definitely explain why it is that he may be using social media, supposed "experts" and peer pressure to tell young people in particular that their physical being that God knit together in their mother's womb (Psalm 139:13) does not fit them and that they need to take steps to change their body to match their mind. We used to change the mind to match the body. An immeasurable amount of damage has been done to young people around the world using this ideology, and it still continues unabated in most of the world. But thankfully the government in the UK has abruptly put the brakes on this in large part thanks to the findings of the Cass Review; now we just need other countries to get off the ideological train and put the brakes on the push to transition our young people and alter their lives forever.

It is widely known among those in the medical transition industry that most of the people who pursue transitioning do not have better mental health outcomes than prior to their transition. In fact, many of these people still end up taking their own lives in a state of depression while many more decide to transition back to their biological sex, even though the process can never be fully reversed. These victims, for that is truly what they are, will never experience sexual fulfillment and will never be able to have children. The chances that they will ever be able to experience a happy and fulfilled marriage or other such relationship are very low.

It is my opinion that the best defence against this type of ideological brain washing that is being used against our children is to make sure that they know who they are in the family and in God's eyes. If your child knows their identity in Christ it is more likely that they will find a firm foundation upon which to stand against those who will seek to fool them. Someone who is searching for something that they cannot properly express will be easily lead astray by someone who puts themselves in a position of claiming to know what the young person needs and who also has a plan to "help" them to find what they are looking for. As the parent, you need to be that person. You need to assert yourself as the trusted voice in your child's life and to lead them on a path of understanding exactly who they are in God's eyes. We really need to stop this government funded and propagandized form of manipulation that is destroying far too much of our next generation.

I hope that this article may have opened your eyes to just one of the devious ways that the devil may be going after your child or another child near you. Please feel free to leave me a note in the comments section and please consider visiting my home page to see if there are any other articles that may interest you.