Why It Matters

Why It Matters

Have you seen these terms? I read them and immediately dismissed them as nonsense. And an hour later in a book I was reading, I read this:

“…..’sexual orientation’ is what we call a neologism, and it creates fictional identities that rob people of their true one: male and female image bearers.

Sexual orientation is a word that extends the definition of sexuality beyond its biblical confines. Biblically speaking,
sexuality is always teleological -that is, sexual desire implies a desired object and sexual practice implies a necessary outcome.

Because the APA's definition of sexual orientation includes nonsexual affection, this re-maps personhood in a way that God does not.

Put another way, biblically speaking, there is nothing sinful and nothing "gay" about nonsexual same-sex deep and abiding friendship. Desiring to bring someone a glass of punch or sacrifcially helping a friend who needs you is an expression of our image-bearing of a holy God, not our persistent patterns of sexual desire or temptation.

We must stop and ask: why would the category of sexual orientation include non sexual affiliation except for the purpose of defining in a new way what it means to be human? This is no small issue. If we privilege secular categories of personhood over and against God's, we are doubting the Bible's ability to understand humanity, and we are denying to ourselves our Maker's instruction.

Freud did not invent or discover or name something true about humanity that the writers of the Bible missed. Categories we use to represent image bearen of a holy God matter. Words, like kitchen washrags, carry and distribute history (and bacteria) with cach use, and the category
invention of scxual orientation brings much bacteria with it.

Everyone loses when we define ourselves using categories that Goes does not.

Blessings