3 Lies We’re Told to Believe

Recently a TV commercial astounded me. A phrase in their marketing promotion stood out as if lit with neon lights. The narrator said, “The body you were randomly assigned at birth…”

The combination of subtle lies embedded in this one quickly spoken phrase seemed designed to be intentionally unnoticed by the hearer. There are three lies combined within this statement.

Bank tellers are taught to identify actual money from counterfeit by studying the real money until the counterfeit becomes unmistakable. In the same manner, let’s re-examine God’s truth so as to highlight the lies hidden in this phrase.

Truth #1- There is a Creator and His creation is not random.

The definition of “random” is, “lacking a definite plan, purpose, or pattern; made, done, or chosen at random or without method of conscious decision; unfamiliar or unspecified.”

The first lie we are told to believe is that our existence is random, without design or specific creation. We are clearly told in the Bible that we have a Creator who knows and loves us. We read clearly, “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him;…” (Genensis1:27). Melchizedek, King of Salem later speaks, “Blessed be Abram by God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth.” (Genesis 14:19). And again in Ecclesiastes, “Remember your Creator in the days of your youth.” (Eccles. 12:1).

Truth #2- God is the Creator and our bodies are uniquely designed.

The second lie we are told to believe is that our bodies were simply “assigned.” There are no “random assignments” in heaven or at birth. God created us very specifically with intention and purpose. David explains this eloquently in Psalm 139 as he marvels at the unique and very personal way in which God not only created us but also knows us.

For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place,
when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
Your eyes saw my unformed body;
all the days ordained for me were written in your book
before one of them came to be.
How precious to me are your thoughts, God!
How vast is the sum of them!
Were I to count them,
they would outnumber the grains of sand—
when I awake, I am still with you. (Psalm m139:14-18)

Does any of this sound like a random assignment to you? Very clearly not!

Truth #3- The Creator designed each of us at birth to be specifically male or female.

The third lie is that our bodies were randomly assigned without regard to gender. Describing creation, the Bible makes a very specific statement. “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.” (Genensis1:27)

In a recent news program, a medical professor who teaches, “The Science of Sex Differences,” explained that there are two sexes, determined scientifically by the type of genomes in a body. A genome, simply defined, is “an organism’s complete set of genetic instructions. Each genome contains all of the information needed to build that organism and allow it to grow and develop… the instructions in our genome are made up of DNA.” Genomes, as our bodies are designed, ultimately produce either sperm or eggs, one or the other.

While determining a person’s sex by “how they feel” is their prerogative, it does not change the scientific fact that God designed each of our bodies, as He chose, to be male or female.

A great cultural war rages around us. Rather than shrink back in fear or respond with anger, our best response is one of love, standing firmly on the truth of God’s Word. Throughout all generations, cultures challenge the truth. Maintaining a Biblical worldview (defined as seeing the world through the grid of God’s Word), allows us to respond factually with humility and love. We can rest in the words of God’s promise:

“It is the same with my word.
I send it out, and it always produces fruit.
It will accomplish all I want it to,
and it will prosper everywhere I send it.” (Isaiah 55:11)

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