Identity Politics?
SELF IMAGE
"Gender identity is the personal sense of one's own gender. Gender identity can correlate with a person's assigned sex or can differ from it. In most individuals, the various biological determinants of sex are congruent, and consistent with the individual's gender identity." - Wikipedia
Is it possible to discover an identity bolstered with unassailable confidence, strengthened for the challenges of life?
HUMAN IMAGINATION (culture wars)
"though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: 4(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) 5Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; 6And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled."
Idolatry & Unbelief
are at the center of any preoccupation with identity and the need to classify humans and human behavior beyond biblical teaching [ Galatians 3:28 ]
God has established identity, period. [ Romans 3:23 ] To focus on self image, which is at the heart of the identity debate, could be a move into the idolizing of 'the self' - "other gods". Is this idolatry?
Modern identity issues seem to arise from an ungodly, secular understanding that is alien to biblical teaching and is prejudicial, punitive and prone to divisiveness.
QUOTE: Beyond what human beings know about you, God has the best knowledge of you – He knows you in and out. [ Psalm 139:23-24 ]
He knows who you are and even your greatest need. "For His eyes are on the ways of man, and He sees all his steps" (Job 34:21).
The New Living Translation says, "For God carefully watches the way people live; he sees everything they do" - T. O. BANSO
Do Mental Health "experts" replace God?
TO DIAGNOSE [ 1 Timothy 6:20 ]
TO DEFINE (manage predict control)
TO DENY [ Romans 1:22-25 ]
THE SUPERNATURAL
Jesus Heals a Boy with an Evil Spirit
(Matthew 17:14-21; Luke 9:37-42; Luke 17:5-10)
"Having a form of godliness,
but denying the power thereof:
from such turn away."
"these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover."
HUBRIS?
the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. - [ Genesis 11:6 ]
Ecclesiastes 12:12
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https://www.healthline.com/health/mental-health/identity-crisis
https://cedarministry.org/lessons-from-the-life-of-cornelius/
https://tinyurl.com/53rx5sdx
