Challenges to binary prompts new thinking on gender, and the exchanges of Spiritual Identity

2021 November 7th Streaming

The 21st Century is pretty much dominated by predominantly biological explanations of gender differences, which emphasize the social and cultural origins, for example, divisions of labor.
Back in 2019, my family and I visited the US for the first time and I remember sitting in a huge lounge with my dear brother David Kenebrew. There, we discussed some general issues of life and whether guilt was innate or learnt across different cultures.

To answer this question, Brother David simply said just consider a man in a tribe somewhere, where the man has never heard about the bible or about of Jesus Christ. A man who understands polygamy, and yet when he longs for another man’s wife, he waits for the man to go away, before he approaches the wife. Why is it that he first waits for him to go out and does not come to his wife whilst he is around? What is it that makes him wait? Is it shame, conscience, culpability or what? Where does this feeling come from?

King David, in Second Samuel, was tempted upon seeing Bathsheba bathe in her courtyard, from the roof of his palace. He had her brought to his chambers and had sex with her, resulting in a pregnancy. Do you think that because he was the King guilt did not apply to him?

Romans 13:14, ESV: “But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.”

Well let’s take a closer look at the exchanged Spiritual Identity of the Son: