Anti-God: Children can now decide their sex "theybies"
Zyler and Kadyn Sharpe are three-year-old
fraternal twins living in Cambridge,
Massachusetts. Which is a boy, and which
is a girl? According to their parents ,
that’s a question only the children can
decide.
Nate and Julia Sharpe have kept their
children’s biological sex a secret from
their birth. They have not taught them to
associate their body parts with being a
boy or a girl. They are going to allow their
children to determine their gender. Such
children are known as “theybies.”
Other parents are making the opposite
decision.
Model Chrissy Teigen and her husband,
singer John Legend, made headlines when
they announced that they had selected the
sex of their unborn child. They used in
vitro fertilization to become pregnant.
This process creates embryos in the
laboratory which are then implanted in
the mother’s womb. Teigen and Legend
asked doctors to select a female embryo
for her to carry to term.
In related news, “sex-selective abortion” is
now common around the world. When a
couple learns that their unborn child is
not the gender they wanted, they have the
baby aborted. According to Newsweek ,
such abortions “are rife in the U.S.”
“You will be like God”
Letting a child choose his or her gender,
choosing a child based on gender, and
aborting a child based on gender are all
symptoms of an underlying condition. At
their heart, they succumb to the
temptation, “You will be like God” (Genesis
3:5 ).
Scripture clearly teaches that God created
us in his image as “male and
female” ( Genesis 1:27 ) and values males
and females equally (Galatians 3:28 ). He
has a purpose for our lives before he
makes us (Jeremiah 1:5 ).
For several decades, however, our culture
has embraced the lie that truth is what we
believe it to be. Such relativism explains
the sexual revolution of the 1960s and
the legalization of abortion in 1973. It
gave birth to same-sex marriage in 2015.
It makes our bodies and lives our own to
do with as we wish.
To paraphrase Dr. Phil, how’s that
working for us?
A highway with no lanes
In her daily devotional, Anne Graham
Lotz asks, “Can you imagine the chaos
that would result if a multilane highway
had no painted markings to give direction
to the traffic? Accidents and confusion
would be the order of the day. No one
complains about or resents the markings
because drivers know the painted
boundaries exist for their own benefit and
safety.
“Today we are surrounded by a generation
of people who have grown up living
according to their own moral codes,
defying the boundaries set by God. As a
result, it is a generation with no peace or
sense of security. Rather than inhibiting
us, moral guidelines free us to live in
peace and security. The statistics on
crime, divorce, abortion, and suicide give
eloquent witness to the danger of living
outside God’s boundaries.”
fraternal twins living in Cambridge,
Massachusetts. Which is a boy, and which
is a girl? According to their parents ,
that’s a question only the children can
decide.
Nate and Julia Sharpe have kept their
children’s biological sex a secret from
their birth. They have not taught them to
associate their body parts with being a
boy or a girl. They are going to allow their
children to determine their gender. Such
children are known as “theybies.”
Other parents are making the opposite
decision.
Model Chrissy Teigen and her husband,
singer John Legend, made headlines when
they announced that they had selected the
sex of their unborn child. They used in
vitro fertilization to become pregnant.
This process creates embryos in the
laboratory which are then implanted in
the mother’s womb. Teigen and Legend
asked doctors to select a female embryo
for her to carry to term.
In related news, “sex-selective abortion” is
now common around the world. When a
couple learns that their unborn child is
not the gender they wanted, they have the
baby aborted. According to Newsweek ,
such abortions “are rife in the U.S.”
“You will be like God”
Letting a child choose his or her gender,
choosing a child based on gender, and
aborting a child based on gender are all
symptoms of an underlying condition. At
their heart, they succumb to the
temptation, “You will be like God” (Genesis
3:5 ).
Scripture clearly teaches that God created
us in his image as “male and
female” ( Genesis 1:27 ) and values males
and females equally (Galatians 3:28 ). He
has a purpose for our lives before he
makes us (Jeremiah 1:5 ).
For several decades, however, our culture
has embraced the lie that truth is what we
believe it to be. Such relativism explains
the sexual revolution of the 1960s and
the legalization of abortion in 1973. It
gave birth to same-sex marriage in 2015.
It makes our bodies and lives our own to
do with as we wish.
To paraphrase Dr. Phil, how’s that
working for us?
A highway with no lanes
In her daily devotional, Anne Graham
Lotz asks, “Can you imagine the chaos
that would result if a multilane highway
had no painted markings to give direction
to the traffic? Accidents and confusion
would be the order of the day. No one
complains about or resents the markings
because drivers know the painted
boundaries exist for their own benefit and
safety.
“Today we are surrounded by a generation
of people who have grown up living
according to their own moral codes,
defying the boundaries set by God. As a
result, it is a generation with no peace or
sense of security. Rather than inhibiting
us, moral guidelines free us to live in
peace and security. The statistics on
crime, divorce, abortion, and suicide give
eloquent witness to the danger of living
outside God’s boundaries.”
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