Texas state Rep. James Talarico is the Democratic candidate for Senator for the Great State of Texas.
He made the statement "God is non-binary," which might be true in a narrow, mathematical sense since:
IF
God > ManGod > Woman
God > Man + Woman
THEN
God cannot be (just) a manGod cannot be (just) a woman
God does not fall into the narrow definitions of "Binary genders"
THEREFORE
God must be non-binary.
For the non-Christians
Traditional Christians believe that God revealed himself to us through three different faces or persona, the way a single, gifted actor might play three roles in a small theater production. One of those persona identifies as The Father. This persona is fully shared with the Jews.
The Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke and John) of the New Testament introduces and fully develops The Son and introduces The Holy Spirit.
The books after the four Gospels goes a long way toward developing the character of The Holy Spirit.
One God. Presented as three different people (by God's choice) to make God's "face" more comprehensible to flawed and limited humans. This is vaguely like Star Trek splitting the complexity-of-command into Captain Kirk, Spock and Dr McCoy: Action, Intellect, Empathy.
However...
If you accept the Bible as the word of God, then God self-identifies in multiple verses as "Father" and "Son", both of which 100% and unambiguously identified as "male" at the time the Bible was recorded.
So Talarico, in an attempt to appease one constituency managed to offend Traditional Christians AND (if they bother to think about it) the "I am whatever I choose to identify as today" crowd.
I understand that many people today had horrible experiences with their father or their mother's boyfriends. They may have been raised by abusive, alcoholic, mentally-ill men...shortcomings which can also be shared by mothers.
I get that many people were raised in families without any "father figure".
But as some level, even they understand that when Satan is prowling around our campfire, we want Simba by our side, not the opportunistic and morally "flexible" Scar.
Jung was onto something with his ideas about archtypes. Archtypes might be hardwired into our brains at a DNA level. They run deeper and truer and more swiftly than intellectual parlor games.
Nothing new under the sun.
ReplyDelete2nd Timothy 4:
…2Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and encourage with every form of patient instruction. 3For the time will come when men will not tolerate sound doctrine, but with itching ears they will gather around themselves teachers to suit their own desires. 4So they will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.…
The results are populist Churches that say "Love IS love" and "God is Love" thus Gay this and that are "god approved".
Matthew 24:
…11and many false prophets will arise and mislead many. 12 Because of the multiplication of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold. 13But the one who perseveres to the end will be saved.…
Romans 1:28-31
Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. / They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips, / slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil; they disobey their parents. ...
Galatians 5:19-21
The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery; / idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions, / and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Satan the father of lies (many scriptures mention) is a subtle wordsmith. Satan uses "flexible" words and ever-changing meanings to distract and confuse.
Some current wag said something about a "Highway to hell and a Stairway to Heaven" built to expected traffic patterns.
If this is a calculation to appeal to religious folks, I suspect it will not go as planned.
ReplyDeleteAlmost all leftists now exist inside their own echo chamber, hearing and seeing only what they want to see and hear. Most actually believe that most of America thinks and believes as they do. They are incapable of seeing reality outside their blinders. Add in their well oiled cheating machinery and raving idiots like Talarico are routinely installed into office. To the left it isn't cheating. They truly believe they have the right to do ANYTHING to achieve power.
ReplyDeleteA Democrat will vote for anyone with a (D) behind their name against anyone with an (R) behind theirs.
ReplyDeleteThe Democrats outvoted Republicans by about 400K votes in our Texas primaries.