If God does not recognize us as male or female, how can he see us as gay or straight...?

Question

Galatians 3:28 for there is neither Jew nor Greek, slave or free, male or female in Christ we are one.

If he does not see us as male or female how can he see us as gay or straight?

Answer 1

I don't believe God intended things to become so difficult. I really believe God intended God's will to be simple. I truely believe men made religion more complicated than God ever intended. God gave us 10 laws. Jesus gave us one more, that works perfectly with the first ten. I really think men gave us the rest.

Why do people insist on taking a single sentence from the Bible to justify something they want to believe? Many passages in the Bible, as in everyday explanations, must be interpreted in their full context. This sentence is part of a full explanation that we shall all be treated as equals when judgment is passed or acceptance is offered.

Men shall not be judged differently than women. Jews shall not be treated as better than. I know there are those who misinterpret the meaning of God's chosen people. Theoretically, God had to chose someone to teach God's will to. The Jews happened to be the ones God chose. Just as if I chose to teach one of my children how to become wealthy in real estate, that does not make that one child of mine better than or more worthy than the rest. That one child is simply the one I chose because I knew or had reason to believe that one child was probably more open to what I had to teach at the time.

All of what is written in the Bible was written by the hand of men. Extremely few passages are attributed to God's actual words or thoughts revealed to the mind, as Moses described it. The greatest preponderance of the Bible is parables to help us understand how to behave as people who must coexist.

I fear that many who wished to force their will and ideas on others many have had a hand in the writing of and various translations of the Bible. I mean seriously, why would an omnipotent beings such as God care one iota if we wear clothing of mixed material? What concern would this existence have for the "Gender" of clothing that was never supposed to be? As I understand it, God never intended us to wear clothes in the first place.

So you can't take one sentence out of context. Additionally, many passages in the Bible require a given amount of background into the historical facts surrounding what was said.

Jesus never intended to say that the wealthy could not go to heaven. He was speaking of the toll gate at the top of a mountain pass when he mentions the "Needles Eye." The people in that village knew what he was referring to. They fully understood how hard is was to get your camel through that toll gate. It wasn't going to happen without being seen, and therefore having to pay the toll, because it took to long.

Don't take the Bible out of context. If you chose to believe in what is written in its pages, to a literal interpretation, then you chose to forgo what you want to believe. If you chose to live in a manner that is in direct conflict to what you know to be written, then stop following the teaching of the Bible and stop using it to justify yourself.

You have to live your life the way you believe is right for you. You don't need to justify or explain yourself to anyone else but you and God, if you so choose to believe in God. Just don't cause harm to others along the way.

Answer 2

If you would bother to read the whole chapter rather than just that one verse out of context, you will notice that Paul was giving a discourse on how the Abrahamic covenant applied to not only those who are the descendants of Abraham, but that through Christ and by being baptized into his church, one recieves the very same promises given to Abraham.

Therefore, once baptized we are all one under the covenant. In essence, a baptized person is no longer to distinguish themselves by any other title than that of Jesus Christ. At the time, there existed a divide in the church between the Jewish christians and the gentile (Greek) christians. Many of the Jewish Christians were under the impression that because the gentiles (greek christians) were not born into the Abrahamic family they had no claim to the blessings promised to Abraham and were therefore inferior members of the church who weren't accepted fully into the church. There must have also been some confusion in the church as to the status of women given their different roles within the church function. Thus, Paul clarified that the blessings of the children of Abraham are extended to all who are willing to accept Christ and be called the people of Christ, not Jew, not Greek, bond, free, nor male or female.

The Bible makes it very obvious that God recognizes the diffence between male and female, and fully understands the different roles that each play when he bothered to point out that 'it isn't good that man should be alone,' so he made for him a women to be his help meet or complement. (Gen. 2:18) Then God went so far as to establish the institution of marriage and declared the way he wanted families to be created by saying "Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh." (Gen. 2:24) God later makes several commandments throughout the Bible that specifically forbid homosexual behaviour.

Now I would suggest you try to read scripture within the context that it is given so that you don't end up being tricked into believing erroneous interpretations of one and only one verse. From just looking at that one verse you used, one could conclude that what you suggested it meant was true. However, upon reading the whole chapter, one finds that Paul was talking about something completely different.

Using one verse from the Bible out of context is like when the news takes one statement that a person has made without giving any idea of what the person was talking about in general, and then blowing it out of proportion. C'mon we see it all the time. You just get a small bit of what was said, and you could very easily believe they were talking about something completely different, and thus your view of what they said could be completely skewed because you never really knew.

Answer 3

gotta say now i am an atheist but even I can see the flaw in your arguement ...........if you beleive he created us (which I dont) if he doesnt recognise us as male and female why have we got such different sexual and reproductive systems ........ how come men are not havin the babies? He must have seen a difference and recognise it at some point.
Unless he got alzhiemers at the time of dictating the good book to Moses and the like!

Answer 4

Another verse clarifies, "God is no respecter of persons" He sees us for what we are He is simply trying to get us to understand or realize equality. He does not love men more, he does not love Jews more- nor do any of these certain groups of people have more "say" or honor in His sight. Therefore we should not treat people with partiality due to gender, nationality, occupation, or social status.

Answer 5

The context of this verse is justification with the aid of faith in Christ Jesus, the certainty that Him no remember if Jew or Gentile (3:36-4:27), avert a individual from coming to Christ as a manner to recieve His mercy. there's a lot of places in the Bible that shows God reconition to homosexuality.

Answer 6

Of course God sees us as male and female, He created us.

What Paul is saying for those who are in Christ there is no difference, we are one.
God does not have favorites.

Answer 7

Male and female are obvious intrinsic natures of physical beings. Being gay is a deviation of the natural behaviors of males and females.

http://www.ifilm.com/video/2806988?c...

Answer 8

you must be gay if you want to know if you ask this question

second, GOD does see our gender, "male or female in Christ we are one" just means that we are all BORN equal, but after we are born we decide what god thinks of us through our actions (e.g. gay)

Answer 9

He doesn't look at your orientation, he looks at what you do.

If define yourself as "gay", then you have done that to yourself.

God told you to avoid mixing male sexual organs with other male sexual organs. Irregardless of how you feel, you can avoid doing this, at least.

Answer 10

Kind of symbolic.

Atheist.