War on Society -- What is a Woman?

[JimmyB]

11 minutes ago, George said:

Gender definition in 1828 -- Webster's ...

GEN'DER, noun [Latin genus, from geno, gigno; Gr.to beget, or to be born; Eng. kind. Gr. a woman, a wife; Sans. gena, a wife, and genaga, a father. We have begin from the same root. See Begin and Can.]

1. Properly, kind; sort.

2. A sex, male or female. Hence,

3. In grammar, a difference in words to express distinction of sex; usually a difference of termination in nouns, adjectives and participles, to express the distinction of male and female. But although this was the original design of different terminations, yet in the progress of language, other words having no relation to one sex or the other, came to have genders assigned them by custom. Words expressing males are said to be of the masculine gender; those expressing females, of the feminine gender; and in some languages, words expressing things having no sex, are of the neuter or neither gender

IGNORED.

[George]

Just now, JimmyB said:

1 Samuel 16:7b, "the Lord does not see as mortals see; they look on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”

Judge a tree by its fruit ... come on.  Nobody is hating anyone, and if we cannot share the truth in love, then why share at all?  You see, REPENTANCE is TURNING from SIN.  Now you must tell someone THEY MUST REPENT ... that they may be saved.  You're suggesting that in doing so, I'm hating someone?   Do you see the error in your logic?  God is LOVE ... and telling someone to REPENT is not unloving, but rather helping them recover from their sin.  It's the same in any situation!  

[George]

@JimmyB ... since you are IGNORING the conversation.  You're simply banned from the topic.  It's a conversation I'm willing to have, but you are not.

[Anne2]

32 minutes ago, JimmyB said:

Wikipedia defines gender this way (which is far better than I could do)...

Gender includes the social, psychological, cultural and behavioral aspects of being a man, woman, or other gender identity. Depending on the context, this may include sex-based social structures and gender expression.

I am sorry, that was not the question. I basically asked what makes each gender differ from the other. What makes one gender a woman, what makes another gender a man. But, perhaps you misunderstood that, it happens. But no matter how you respond, or not. I will no longer bother you. I just thought it would greatly help me understand gender as you understand it.

Edited June 7, 2023 by Anne2

[Anne2]

16 minutes ago, George said:

@JimmyB ... since you are IGNORING the conversation.  You're simply banned from the topic.  It's a conversation I'm willing to have, but you are not.

Sorry george, if he is banned please just delete my post. I did not get to this post until after I posted.

[George]

Just now, Anne2 said:

Sorry george, if he is banned please just delete my post. I did not get to this post until after I posted.

It's okay ... he saw it.  I allowed him to see several posts and let him post, so I didn't need to send an alert. 

[Retrobyter]

20 minutes ago, JimmyB said:

It's in style now, but all sin is sin.  So why not go after adulterers, those who cheat others, liars, etc?  Why go after just LGBTQs? 

Shalom, JimmyB.

We don't go after the sinners; we go after the sins! Love the sinner, but HATE the sin. So, we shouldn't go after LGBTQs or adulterers or cheaters or liars; we should go after homosexuality, adultery, cheating, and lying! Our mission - our GOAL - is not to go after the sinner, but to SEPARATE the sinner from his or her sin! When he or she can see that it's NOT something to be proud of but something to abhore, then he or she can admit that he or she is a sinner, and that is the FIRST STEP in coming to God for HIS righteousness imputed in his or her life.

If the LGBTQs weren't pushing their agendas on everyone for acceptance, and they were more SORRY for their sins than PROUD of them, perhaps they wouldn't be perceived as so big a threat. The problem is that acceptance of the sin as though it was okay or even good, is calling good "evil" and evil "good!"

Isaiah 5:14-24 (KJV)

14 Therefore hell (Hebrew: sh'owl = "the grave") hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.

15 And the mean (average) man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:

16 But the LORD of hosts (Hebrew: YHWH tsVaa'owt = "YHWH of-armies") shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.

17 Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.

18 Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:

19 That say,

"Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it!"

20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

21 Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!

22 Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:

23 Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!

24 Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

 

20 minutes ago, JimmyB said:

Here is Paul's list of sinners...

Romans 1:28-32, And since they [idolaters] did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to an unfit mind and to do things that should not be done. They were filled with every kind of injustice, evil, covetousness, malice. Full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, craftiness, they are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, rebellious toward parents, foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. They know God’s decree, that those who practice such things deserve to die, yet they not only do them but even applaud others who practice them."

It's one thing to know the list; it's quite another to be proud of one's part in the list and think to point fingers at the rest of the list!

God would rather not destroy anyone WITH his or her sin, but He SHALL destroy sin! If a person is not divorced from that sin before he or she stands in His presence at judgment, then he or she will be destroyed with the sin!

John 3 not only gives us the famous verse 16, but it also quotes Yeeshuwa` ("Jesus") saying ...

John 3:16-21 (KJV)

16 "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved (delivered; rescued). 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: BUT HE THAT BELIEVETH NOT IS CONDEMNED ALREADY, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God."

Peter said,

2 Peter 3:7-12 (KJV)

7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition (sentencing) of ungodly men.

8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. 9 The Lord is not slack (lazy) concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, NOT WILLING THAT ANY SHOULD PERISH, BUT THAT ALL SHOULD COME TO REPENTANCE.

10 But the day of the Lord WILL come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, 12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?

Regarding the same event in the future, we read ...

Revelation 20:7-15 (KJV)

7 And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, 8 And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. 9 And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them. 10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.

11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. 12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. 13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. 14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. 15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.

That's what the sinner has to anticipate if he or she does not repent of (turn away from) the sin and turn to God for His justification. If GOD doesn't step in and justify a human being, then that person will stand a perfectly righteous God in his or her sin.

[Retrobyter]

8 hours ago, FJK said:

One thin has just come into my mind:

It's a good thing that Adam didn't think he was a woman or Eve thought she was a man,

We wouldn't be here at all if they did.

Shalom, FJK.

LOL! As it was, ever read Genesis 5:1-3?

It took Adam and Chavah ("Eve") a while before they had a son who could carry on the family line! "AN HUNDRED AND THIRTY YEARS!"

Maybe Qayin ("Cain") and Hevel ("Abel") spooked them for a while!

Edited June 8, 2023 by Retrobyter
to add a thought

[Retrobyter]

6 hours ago, JimmyB said:

Wikipedia defines gender this way (which is far better than I could do)...

Gender includes the social, psychological, cultural and behavioral aspects of being a man, woman, or other gender identity. Depending on the context, this may include sex-based social structures and gender expression.

LOL! "Or OTHER?!"

[Retrobyter]

6 hours ago, Anne2 said:

I am sorry, that was not the question. I basically asked what makes each gender differ from the other. What makes one gender a woman, what makes another gender a man. But, perhaps you misunderstood that, it happens. But no matter how you respond, or not. I will no longer bother you. I just thought it would greatly help me understand gender as you understand it.

Shalom, Anne2.

It's really quite simple: The absence of the Y chromosome is a female. The presence of the Y chromosome is a male.