We live in a confused world. The sharp line of distinction between right and wrong, good and bad, truth and error has been blurred in many cases (almost to elimination, in some instances). The root cause of the ever-shifting values in our society is no mystery. Man has “exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator” (Rom. 1:25). The creatures specially designed by the Creator in His own image are teaching (and living) that we are the product of mere chance and the evolutionary descendants of animals. What we are seeing and experiencing in the moral standards around us today is the natural consequence of removing God as the Creator of all things.
Man has become enamored with science and scientists rather than with God. If a scientist says something, then it doesn’t matter what God says. If “science teaches” something, because a group of scientists have “decided” something, then it doesn’t matter what God says. This is evident in the whole emphasis on evolution. There is no real science substantiating the theory of evolution, but people follow it anyway and dismiss God from the scene. Man has used science to try to “prove” many things about morality, including the search for a homosexual gene. And, too many today will just take what scientists say and reject what God says.
In recent years, a question about gender identity has risen to the top of the scientists’ list. Could it be that a male was actually “supposed to be a female,” or a female supposed to be a male? People want to know what scientists say about that, and are not interested in what God says about it. Or if they listen to both (as Christians will often do), some are more inclined to take the scientist’s word over God’s.
In the beginning, God created them “male and female” (Gen. 1:27). Don’t dismiss this verse. Male and female distinctions have their origin in God. Whatever distinguished males and females in the beginning is what distinguishes them now. God told Jeremiah, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you” (Jer. 1:5). Babies are “formed in the womb” by God, including “what sex they are.” David wrote, “You formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb” (Psa. 139:13). God formed the inward and the outward parts. We are not our own but have been “bought at a price,” therefore, “glorify God in your body,” which belongs to Him (1 Cor. 6:19-20). Who made your body? God! Who “knitted together” your male parts or females parts? God! Who am I to change what God made?
There is certainly going to be some “scientific find” that overrules all of this. Question is, am I going to listen to a scientist or God? Do I trust a scientist or do I trust God?