The Universe God made is Binary

We live in a Binary World

The first two chapters of the Bible reveal a God who creates binary pairs. He makes light and dark, water below (sea) and water above (clouds), he separates dry ground and sea, and he creates male and female.

Genesis chapters 1 and 2 are saying, among many other things, that there is something intrinsically binary about the created order.

(Interestingly in the subatomic world, we find more created binaries. Electrons, for example, can have up spin (+1/2) or down spin (-1/2 spin). And they have a fixed negative charge of a value equal but opposite of their antiparticle counterpart, the positron.)

The Gospel follows exactly the same binary pattern. There is light and there is darkness, spiritual sight and spiritual blindness, the wide road that leads to destruction the narrow that leads to life; there is sowing to please the sinful nature or sowing to please the Spirit, a heaven to gain or a hell to avoid. 

One or the other.

Scriptural truth, you could say, as well as the created order, is binary by divine design.

Perhaps one reason for this is so that we can understand things: after all we are weak and finite little human beings.

Transgender Ideology

Underpinning transgender ideology is a radical rejection of binary categories, especially when it comes to gender; there is no binary male and female, but a spectrum of genders.

The fall of mankind has for sure messed us all up - body and understanding - and so we should have great compassion on all who struggle. 

Unlike previous societal shifts (e.g. same-sex marriage), transgender ideology has little explicit answer in Scripture, simply because there is not one example of someone claiming to be transgender in the Bible. Homosexual practice is mentioned and condemned multiple times in Scripture but no mention of transgender. 

This explicit absence of Scriptural references does not in any way limit the ability of Scripture, which was written for all time and all peoples, to speak plainly to this issue. 

One of the most remarkable indications that the Bible is of divine origin is the fact that tucked away all over are truths that answer any confusing lie Satan may spread in a culture at any moment of history.

"God hath more light to shed from his Word."

Passages that may be passed over unnoticed by one generation suddenly come alive and relevant to another - designedly so.

An example from 1 Corinthians chapter 7: when discussing marriage, Paul says things like this "each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband" (7:2). If those instructions were not inspired by God, if only the product of one man temporarily located in one moment of time, he might have written, "each person should be married," which would have left the door open later in time to someone saying "look Paul just says get married, he doesn't say who to."

But the Holy Spirit closed the same-sex marriage door firmly with the addition of the words man, wife, woman and husband.

In like manner, for thousands of years believers may have overlooked the binary nature of God's creation, but today it is one of the many Scriptural truths that reveal the lie of transgender ideology. 

The world God made is binary. 

Image: AI draw "binary"