I have exhausted myself trying to explain the Church’s teachings on TOB and creation. This person basically thinks gender is fluid and is upset women cannot become priest.
How would you respond to this particular statement? It is so far left and crazy I am having difficulty reasoning with this person. Do you see anything that contradicts any writtings of popes and doctrinal teaching. Somthing specific to show God isn’t the union of the principals of gender. And we all remain to some degree male and female because we are the breath of God. Someone give me something substantial!
Thanks
Odell
People who believe nonsense like this are similar to Holocaust deniers. You could jump in a time machine, go back to whenever the first truly human person came about, and introduce them to Adam, and they still wouldn’t believe you.
That line in scripture points to the literal opposite of what this person is trying to assert, and speaks about the distinction between the sexes. (it also says “them,” implying a set, further reinforcing the fact that one was male and the other was female.)
You might try pointing out that species that reproduce A-sexually (without the need for a partner), are biologically more apt to survive, seeing as how you only need one of them to continue the species, and that it makes no sense for the genders to have been one and then split at a later date. Even if Adam and Eve had been “gender fluid,” and contained both genders within themselves, it is a statistical impossibility for both of them to have the genetic mutation resulting in single-sex offspring, at the same generational point, and to
all of their
many offspring. Beyond that first generation, the likelihood of a two part procreative system (male and female as separate and distinct physical forms) being capable of overtaking a single-part procreative system drops off dramatically.
In short, if Adam and Eve had been truly hermaphroditic (containing both male and female reproductive organs), then their offspring would have been as well, because that would be the base state of humanity. Instead, as far back as fossil records go (even as far as to pre-Homo Sapien humans), we invariably find a distinction between males and females, meaning that this person could not be more wrong if they tried.
Your friend is twisting scripture to conform with their perception of reality, rather than allowing scripture to inform them about the true composition of reality. If they have truly convinced themselves that their position is correct, nothing you say to them will change their minds. At this point, only God can do that, and only if they are willing to let Him.
Sexual reproduction is an established fact in higher forms of life. We don’t reproduce by one being dividing into two the way lower life forms do. If I were the OP, I would firmly tell the other person that it’s a funny coincidence that this theological/biological “revelation” is just now coming to light - during a time when “genderfluid” is a popular cultural thing. Coincidence? I think not. 