Why Christians Should Read the Book of Leviticus Girlfriends in God See All Devotionals Dr. Michael A. Milton Author 2021 11 Mar
There are some books in the Bible that get overlooked. maybe, they are, indeed, hard to understand in our context. Or, as some critics have complained, “There is just too much blood in the book.” Someone might even dare to utter out loud what some whisper in secret: “Goodness gracious, Leviticus is a wee bit boring, don’t you think?” On the subject of apparently obscure biblical texts, I always remember how a friend put it with tongue-in-cheek: that we could get put on the spot when you get to heaven and Habakkuk asks, “Well, what did you think of my book? As neglected as the book of Habakkuk may be, there is another book of the Bible that takes the all-time prize for n
4 Powerful Lessons from Jonah for Today Girlfriends in God See All Devotionals Dr. Michael A. Milton Author 2021 4 Mar
Rudyard Kipling, the great English poet of the first part of the 20th century, considered the strengths and influence of the British Empire but warned his fellow subjects of the crown that empires are fleeting. He mentions one in particular:
Far-called, our navies melt away;
On dune and headland sinks the fire:
Lo, all our pomp of yesterday
Is one with Nineveh and Tyre!
Judge of the Nations, spare us yet,
Lest we forget lest we forget! Lest we forget lest we forget!
Trans-sexuality, cross-dressing,” and seeking “
gender identity
development,” i.e., physical identity through radical surgeries, and hormone treatment; and, more broadly, “gender atypicality” that includes “myriad subcultural expressions of self-selecting gender,” and “intersectionality” with other “interdependence” movements, i.e., feminism, homosexuality.
[1] The idea of transgenderism has its roots in the primordial rebellion of humankind to the creation order of God.
Ancient pagan rituals would have included some aspects of transgender practice. More currently, social anarchists such as the otherwise brilliant French social critic, Michael Foucault, argued that Christianity, in particular, has leveraged its cultural “powers” (a recurring them with Foucault) to repress human sexual expression. Foucault taught that gender is a social construct, not a biological fact. The absurdity of such thinking was largely unchallenged in the 1960s and 70s when