Genesis Teaches ALL Genders?! This Claim Is WILD!

So, God created male and female in Genesis, but it's not because of what you were taught on Sundays. As it turns out, male and female is meant to be understood as affirming the whole spectrum of genders.

Take a look at this.

Because the creation account is not a list, and it's definitely not a binary. It's called a merism, a Hebrew literary device that's used to represent two extremes of full.

Spectrum.

You're just reading into the text, okay? How do we interpret the phrase, God is alpha and omega? That's not beta. Honey, it's not a list.

It's a spectrum.

Uh-oh.

Have we been taught Genesis incorrectly this whole time, or are we dealing with yet another baseless claim to justify sinful behavior? After this video, you'll know exactly how to respond to this type of claim, so let's get right into it.

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People love to quote Genesis to me and say, see, male, female, case closed. Which always throws me off guard because I don't think that's at all what that verse.

Is saying.

Hi, my name's Jay. I used to be a pastor. Now I'm a whole lot of other things. But I am showing up during the month of June to use my old theology degree to remind queer and trans people that they are beloved and worthy of dignity, respect, and belonging.

So I'm thinking about the tangled layers that comprise this particular issue. And I say tangled layers because, you know, there's a lot going on here. On the one hand, you've got the issue of somebody who used to be a pastor, they say they were, who now is part of the T community.

First of all, hey, how does that happen?

Right?

I'm sure there's some big story there, right? And then you have a theological claim. Then you have a biblical claim from the book of Genesis about gender. And by the way, we'll get into that in a moment.

And then on top of that, you also have this concern from, what is it, Jay, that people in the T community are given dignity, respect, and a sense of belonging. So, you know, I mean, what is that like four issues or something?

And so here's what happens. Christians like us see this issue, right? But we don't fully recognize the layers to it. For a lot of us, we just see what appears to be an insurmountable problem. And so then we do one of two things.

We either stay quiet because we don't want to step in what this person is putting down, or we jump into the fray, but we can't get past that sort of shallow top layer of issues to get to the real issues underneath the issue.

And so then much of the conversation becomes an exercise in talking around each other. As a matter of fact, I would argue that most of the conversations online are examples of people talking around each other.

So look, here's a perfect example of this, right? Should LGBT folks be treated with respect and dignity? Absolutely. That is the Christian position. Absolutely. Not because of their sin, but because they were made in God's image.

Just like you and me. The problem is, as soon as you say that, the Ts will conflate that image of God with their decision to live a sinful lifestyle. And they'll start to say, well, you say you respect me, but you don't really respect me.

Those two things are not the same at all. You see what I mean? Immediately this becomes a hot mess. So what do we do, right? What do we do as Christians who want to get this correct? Well, we need to just take the claims one at a time.

We need to focus on each layer as best we can and deal with each until there is sufficient resolution.

Amen.

And we should not get sort of flustered or frustrated or get distracted by jumping over to another layer when we're, what we need to do is just focus on one thing at a time. We have a claim here about Genesis, okay?

Genesis chapter one. So for reference, here is the verse, verse 26, then God said, let us make man in our image after our likeness and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.

Here it is. Verse 27. So God created man in his own image. In the image of God, he created him male and female. He created them. Okay, great. Now, if you just stop right here, you may miss the whole point.

Okay.

Right.

A great Bible study question to ask at this point is, why does God do that? Why does God make them male and female in verse 27? And the answer is there. If you keep reading, look at verse 28 and God blessed them.

And God said to them, be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.

Okay, stop. What does it mean to multiply, huh? What does it mean to fill the earth? See, already we're witnessing a purpose for the creation of male and female in the Bible. Are we not? And there's even more here that the Bible tells us later.

But for now, now you know the verse in question. So let's go back to the video.

Back to Genesis though, because the creation account is not a list and it's definitely not a binary. It's called a merism, a Hebrew literary device that's used to represent two extremes of full.

Spectrum.

You're just reading into the text.

Okay.

How do we interpret the phrase? God is alpha and omega. That's not beta. Honey, it's not a list.

It's a spectrum.

Say land and sky. It doesn't exclude marshes and swamps. To say day and night. It doesn't exclude dawn and dusk.

Okay.

So here's the claim. When Genesis one 27 says that God created a man in his image, right? In the male and female, he created them, right? What this is is it's a merism, a merism is a figure of speech where two, uh, opposing extremes are mentioned, but they are meant to refer to the entire spectrum in between of a particular subject.

And yeah, I mean, you know, Jay is giving examples of this, right? Day and nights can be a merism because what the phrase refers to is actually the full spectrum of a 24 hour period. So yes, merisms are in the Bible.

You know, look at this. Psalm 139 verse one, Oh Lord, you have searched me and known me. Here it is. You know, when I sit down and when I rise up, you discern my thoughts from afar. You know, there it is.

Is David saying that the Lord only knows when he sits down and only knows when he rises.

Up?

No.

He's saying that the Lord knows the full spectrum of his entire activity in life. Can you see that now. There is actually a merism in Genesis, but it's not where Jay says it is.

Look at this.

Genesis one, verse one, in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Wait a second.

Look at that.

We have a merism right in the first verse in creation, you know, because again, does it mean that God only created heaven and then skipped everything else and then only created the earth? No, he created everything in the full spectrum of creation.

Like John says later, you know, uh, all things were made through him and without him was not anything that was made. So merisms are a thing, right? The question is, uh, is Genesis chapter one, verse 27, a merism.

And the way that you'll answer that question is by noting the stated purpose of creating human beings. They were created for a particular purpose and it's described in verse 28. So this is what I was pointing out earlier, right?

And God blessed them. And God said to them, be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, right? Over the birds of the heavens, over every living thing, uh, God said, behold, I've given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth.

Every tree was seed and its fruit. You shall have them for food and to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life.

I've given every green plant for food. And it was so if you zoom out and you just take a look at verses 28 to 30, there is one word that encapsulates all of this activity. Everything that God is describing, you know, all the activity of all the creatures on the earth.

One word that naturally culminates through all those descriptors, look at that fruitful multiply, fill the earth, right? Um, uh, yielding seed. And that word is flourishing. In other words, God has created mankind for flourishing.

There is a function in other words, for mankind, for males and females. And that function trades on the distinction between the sexes. That's why God created them male and female. This is literally, you see how verse 27 and verse 28 stand in relationship to each other.

This is why, um, also in Genesis chapter two, we find this particular passage, right? Therefore, a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife and they shall become one flesh. Now this verse is about marriage.

Okay.

But it's also about the bedroom. It includes bedroom activity. Why is that? Well, because bedroom activity is, you know what I mean, right? You know, anyway, bedroom activity is a physical representation of the spiritual and the covenantal dynamic between a husband and a wife in marriage.

So you know, the, the, the natural by-product of one flesh or this one fleshness of a man and a wife is actually the fulfillment of the mandate given by God in Genesis one 28. You see how this works.

You see what I mean? We need to ask the question, why male and why female? And then we need to let the Bible answer the question for us. Because if we don't, right? If we just bring our assumptions to the scripture already, and then we read into it, what it's saying, then we'll make the text say whatever we want.

And that's what Jay is doing. Jay is assuming the spectrum of genders when nobody until relatively five minutes ago in the history of mankind ever thought, thought like that. And Jay is smuggling that into the text and then trying to force it into Genesis chapter one in order to say, Hey, this is a mirror isn't guys.

Look what I found. Well, of course, Jay found it.

All right.

Jay already assumed it in order to discover it. Which by the way, now, like in philosophical circles, this is a fallacy, you know, did you know that this is known as circular reasoning?

All right.

So in other words, well, I already assume a spectrum of gender.

Why?

Well, because that's where my community's mindset is at in 2025. And then I assume this same spectrum already exists in Genesis, right? Forget about the fact that like nobody in the time of scripture would know anything about a spectrum of gender, you know, and then I go find a literary device that actually does exist in the scripture in other places.

And then I say, Hey, look what I found, guys, a mirror ism.

No.

No, that's not how this works at all.

To say male and female is not an explanation of why trans people don't exist. People weaponize Genesis to defend the strict binary that they think scripture is talking about. They're not actually defending scripture.

What they are doing is they're shrinking the wonder and mystery of creation to something small bite size. And most of all, something controllable. The God of Genesis is not drawing lines. The God of Genesis is singing a world into being.

And that world is far too wild, too holy and too nuanced to fit into two tidy boxes.

You see how this sounds wonderful and, you know, awesome and amazing. The universe that God has made. It is actually beautiful and mysterious.

You know what I mean?

Like we can affirm that as Christians, of course it is. But that has nothing to do with why God created human beings as males and females. See, this is what it sounds like when you completely ignore the purpose of the creation of mankind.

Which, again, I mean, this is clearly given to us in Genesis 128. There is a mandate here for males and females. And the mandate is fulfilled through a covenant that was created by God called marriage.

Now, does this mean that the only reason God created males and females was to get married and so that they could procreate? And so therefore, those who do not get married or do not have children for whatever reason are somehow less than when compared to everyone else?

No.

No.

Okay.

That's not the case at all. Absolutely not. You know, the Apostle Paul was not married. And for good reason. You know, he was sent on mission by God to do his work and to bless the brothers and sisters, right?

There are people in the world that God has called to do other things with their lives. But acknowledging that fact does nothing to undermine the mandate given by God in Genesis one for mankind, period.

And Jay completely ignores that in order to make claims about the full spectrum of gender in Genesis. Again, this is a smuggled in assumption into the text that is not proved by the text itself.

All right.

Now look, all right, let me, let me just say one last thing here.

Okay.

We're not here to dunk on Jay. We're not here to dunk on anybody, actually. We're here in the spirit of second Corinthians 10, five.

Okay.

Take a look at this. We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God and take every thought captive to obey Christ.

Okay.

Notice what the passage is not saying. We are not destroying people. We're here to destroy false ideas raised up against God. And that's what this video is basically doing. It's seeking to accomplish.

But what we will not do is give up and stop praying for those who are taken with this particular ideology or with these false ideas, you know because second Peter three says that God is patient right now and delaying his judgment in order to give people time to turn.

To him.

And that sentiment right there, that's, that's exactly what our prayer should be. Ladies and gentlemen, we should pray for Jay. We should pray for everyone in this community, you know, that their eyes would be open to the truth.

There's still time while God is delaying judgment for, for them to change their minds, to follow after Jesus Christ. You know, there's still time as long as they have breath in their lungs. Look, if you would have met me 20 years ago, you would have written me off as a lost cause.

I was a smug, arrogant, obnoxious atheist. I mocked Christians to their face. I laughed. I thought Christians were idiots, but I know people kept praying for me during that time, you know, and look at what God is doing now, right?

Amen.

Let's keep praying for these folks because we care about them and we care about their souls.

All right. All right.

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