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When Your Child Questions Their Gender
Sep. 23, 2020
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A word to parents that are facing children that might be questioning gender roles either for themselves or as they look out at the broader culture, I would say that this is an area that we can't afford to be passive on at all. We can't afford to just shrug and let them figure things out on their own. We're living in a very, very dangerous time. Right now, if you go onto Facebook, it's 58 genders and counting. By the time you perhaps look at this video, that might be up to 70 or 80.

Who knows? It's a moving target. But when you go back to the Bible, it's very clear. In the beginning, God made them male and female. There's only two sexes.

There's male and there's female. There's not multiple genders outside of that. And we're being told in our culture today, well it's not quite that easy. Yes, you can be male physically or physiologically, but you might not be in terms of your gender. So you can see this another layer been inserted where God did not insert another layer.

And so yesterday my wife and I were talking to a young man who is actually questioning all of this. He's actually living actively in a homosexual lifestyle after being brought up in a Christian home and He's rejected Everything that the Bible has to say about gender roles and his whole argument is based on the fact Well, it's not quite that easy Yes, we read in the Bible God made them male and female But and then he inserts that there's multiple genders that are outside of that, and who's to say who's right and who's wrong. And so again, it really goes back to the question that was asked in the garden.

Paul Carrington explains in this video that if our children begin question gender roles, it isn't an area that we can be passive about. We are living in a very dangerous time -- where anything goes and where there are no absolutes. We must be diligent to teach and remind our children that Scripture makes it very clear that there are two genders.

Genesis 1:27 (NKJV) - "So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them."

Speaker

Paul Carrington is a member of Hope Baptist Church in Wake Forest, North Carolina, and has previously served as an elder and missionary.  Paul is married to Melinda, and they have six children.  He works full-time in technology and is also active in publishing Christian resources/audiobooks for unreached people groups.

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