Monday, April 8, 2013
Sunday, April 7, 2013
Neither male nor female
I know I haven't blogged for a long long time, so I guess it's about time I do so. :)
I'm quite surprised that the post on 'There is no gender in heaven' has received the highest views all this while and has by far outnumbered the number of views of my other posts. Looks like this is a hot topic for Christians and non-Christians all over the world. I have also received a lot of comments on this that I don't receive for any of my other posts.
I would like to clarify that I am not a Bible scholar, so this topic is totally up to debate. But there are a few basis of why I have written what I have written.
Let me give you an extreme example. (Please highlight extreme.) Say you are outreaching to people who are very different from you and the Lord opens up doors for you to reach out to transgendered people, and they received Jesus into their lives. Of course they have fully repented from all of this and we know that God has already forgiven them, they have been translated from the domain of darkness into the Kingdom of the Most High God. However, they have already made physical changes to their bodies and there's no way to reverse it. So how now? If really during rapture we believe that our bodies will be perfected, what does that really mean? Or when we go to heaven our bodies will be perfected, what does it really mean?
Galatians 3:26-29 says: "For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as were baptised into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jews nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise."
I may be wrong and you might even say that I take this Scripture out of context, but I believe this is talking about the Kingdom of God. By the way the Kingdom of God is not heaven; it is the manifestation and the expression of the power of God; yet obviously there is manifestation and expression of the power of God in heaven. So then, in the Kingdom of God, there is neither male nor female. We are all one in Christ Jesus.
Go figure. And I hope my babbles made sense to some of you.
I'm quite surprised that the post on 'There is no gender in heaven' has received the highest views all this while and has by far outnumbered the number of views of my other posts. Looks like this is a hot topic for Christians and non-Christians all over the world. I have also received a lot of comments on this that I don't receive for any of my other posts.
I would like to clarify that I am not a Bible scholar, so this topic is totally up to debate. But there are a few basis of why I have written what I have written.
Let me give you an extreme example. (Please highlight extreme.) Say you are outreaching to people who are very different from you and the Lord opens up doors for you to reach out to transgendered people, and they received Jesus into their lives. Of course they have fully repented from all of this and we know that God has already forgiven them, they have been translated from the domain of darkness into the Kingdom of the Most High God. However, they have already made physical changes to their bodies and there's no way to reverse it. So how now? If really during rapture we believe that our bodies will be perfected, what does that really mean? Or when we go to heaven our bodies will be perfected, what does it really mean?
Galatians 3:26-29 says: "For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as were baptised into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jews nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise."
I may be wrong and you might even say that I take this Scripture out of context, but I believe this is talking about the Kingdom of God. By the way the Kingdom of God is not heaven; it is the manifestation and the expression of the power of God; yet obviously there is manifestation and expression of the power of God in heaven. So then, in the Kingdom of God, there is neither male nor female. We are all one in Christ Jesus.
Go figure. And I hope my babbles made sense to some of you.
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