Rosaria Butterfield, a favorite Focus on the Family radio guest, dropped a bold truth bomb at a recent women’s conference at the Ark Encounter in Williamstown, Kentucky. The conference, “Anchored: Pursuing Biblical Sexuality in a Turbulent World,” tackled deceptions we face around what it means to be human in today’s culture.
Few Christian speakers address the cultural confusion around sexuality and gender with the essential balance of truth and grace as Rosaria Butterfield does. She understands that genuine love sometimes requires strong words. But doing so is not easy. She began her comments at the conference’s Answers for Women panel by confessing, “I have to ask the Holy Spirit to help me be courageous.”
She further prefaced her comments by observing, “It’s a sin to tell a lie, but it’s also a sin to believe a lie.” We have a responsibility to know, speak and believe the truth.
Butterfield then articulated one of the most important truths that our current culture, in and outside of the church, needs to grasp and speak:
And so, there is no such thing as a gay man or a lesbian woman or a transgender woman, and then you can fill in all of the different categories that come under the umbrella “LGBTQ.”
She said this because none of these designations are real human identities. Nor are they physiological or medical realities. They are not actual things. They are feelings — temptations — backed by carefully-crafted ideological and political support in today’s world. Butterfield explains:
And the reason is because, in Genesis, where we have to start, we are given our identity. Our identity is in the image of God, bearing it as a man or as a woman. There are two kinds of people in the world — a man or a woman.
That is what it means to be human, to be male or female. And in Genesis, the first time we read the words “male” and “female,” we read them in the context of how humans are created in the image and likeness of God. Our maleness and femaleness as humans have a divine nature to them.
This is precisely what Genesis 1:26-27 is telling us: Human persons — embodied as male and female — are the only parts of creation that actually reflect the image and likeness of God. It is self-evident that they are made for, and to, complement and complete one another. This is what Genesis 2:19 and 23 are speaking of. It is not good that man should be without woman and vice versa. This is not a Christian ideal, or a Western ideal or a conservative/traditional ideal. It is a common grace God has given all of humanity, across all cultures, across all times. Our time is no different.
This is evidenced by the fact that the bodily, emotional and soulful distinctions of male and female create a purposeful and essential human unity without which humanity cannot exist.Aristotle even recognized this three centuries before Jesus appeared on earth, explaining it on the first page of his Politics. It is part of the original human design.
That is what it means to be human, and it is true of people wherever you find them in the world and throughout history.
These new rainbow/alphabet soup of identities that are bombarding our culture (and our children) — which even leading sex activists are admitting is incoherent — is artificially constructed, which is precisely why it must be ideologically forced upon us with constant pressure.
Butterfield explains that this all has a very important spiritual dynamic, “A man who says he’s a gay man is a man with a sin pattern that Jesus came to help set him free from if he will mortify it, repent, believe, go to war.”
She properly adds,
It’s very hard to do that. I’m not suggesting it’s easy, but that is our job, and you know what? It’s not just somebody whose indwelling sin is homosexuality who happens to have that call. It’s everyone, because we are all born in the sin of Adam. And it is because of the sin of Adam that we have sin in our nature.
This is the great equalizer of humankind. All of us have boundaries on our sexual desires. That is what civilization itself requires. Butterfield concluded, “We need to have strong Christians,” who understand and help their family and neighbors grasp that, “Homosexuality is found in the flesh, it is forbidden in the law, it’s overcome by the Savior.”
Christians need to stop believing the lie that same-sex sexual attraction and “trans” identities are somehow naturally rooted in human physiology or simply ways some people “just are.” They are not. They are sinful deceptions. They are very complex psychological and ideological deceptions, but deceptions all the same.
We thrive when we live in God’s very good and loving design for us.
Additional Articles and Resources:
Rosaria Butterfield on Focus on the Family: Accepting My True Identity in Christ
Rosaria Butterfield on Focus on the Family: Loving People Through the Truth
Why the ‘LGBT Person’ and ‘LGBT Community’ Don’t Really Exist
Focus on the Family Lecture: Why The “LGBT” Person Doesn’t Exist
Strike Against Deception: A Focus on the Family Interview with Joe Dallas
Sexual Orientation Is Not What You Think It Is
Gender Ideology is Wrong: There Are Only Two Sexes
Why Christians Can’t Avoid the “Trans” and Gender Redefinition Issue
How the “Trans” and Gender Redefinition Issue Attacks the Family
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