Why Christians Should Not Use Preferred Pronouns
God’s Word has quite a lot to say about not going along with the world. Romans 12:2 tells us, “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.”
Each age has patterns and systems that demand conformity, and Christians are not immune to the pressure, nevermind the attempts at coercion, to submit to the worldiness taking place around them, even when such worldliness is clearly the opposite of God’s will. Preferred pronouns are precisely that.
The truth of biological sex is found as early as the first chapter of the Bible. “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.” (Genesis 1:27) This reality is God’s will and part of what we are to discern and see as good, acceptable and perfect.
Yet we live in a day and age where we are told that gender is fluid rather than rooted in the binary of male and female. The assumption of the claim that one was ‘born in the wrong body’ is that God did not “knit [us] together in our mother’s womb (Psalm 139:13-14). Connect these with the denial of biological sex as nothing more than a social construct, that we are the arbiters of truth in this most foundational aspect of our being, and the general rejection of the existence of God, and you have a worldview that Christians cannot go along with.
Preferred pronouns are a sign that you are willing to do exactly that. Quite simply, using preferred pronouns gives the impression that you are the author of your biological sex, not God. Chromosomes don’t matter. Our feelings trump the truth.
Christians should never use pronouns…
— Jon Root (@JonnyRoot_) August 16, 2024
God determines our sex, NOT us.
God creates us, male or female & that foundational aspect of our being doesn’t change over time.
Don’t conform to the world by playing these silly name games. pic.twitter.com/rEbGJoB5Jj
Similarly, using terms like “cisgender” is nonsensical. The term is defined as “A person whose gender identity matches their sex assigned at birth, such as man or woman”. It makes man, in this case, the doctor, the one who assigns sex, rather than God. Again, you can see how man replaces God.
Christians should also be careful that they don’t accept the silly idea that sex and gender are totally distinct. We are told that they are, and from the 1950s men like Alfred Kinsey pushed the idea that sex, though biological, was to be distinguished from gender, which is more sociological. Whilst there are sociological outworkings of biological sex that vary, the Bible shows no distinction between ‘gender’ and ‘sex’. If anything is a social construct, it is the distinction between the two.
It is essential that we stand firm in this area because if Satan is allowed to deceive individuals and nations into believing that biological sex is a feeling, not a fact, it leads to marriage outside of one man and one woman, to minors being manipulated into irreversible, life-alternating, bodily harm through “gender reassignment surgery”, to adult men cosplaying as women and invading female-only spaces like restrooms, locker rooms and sports, and a litany of other cultural ills we see around us. After all, we just saw millions of sports fans, including Christians, duped into believing that identifying as a specific sex on your passport is what determines male or female, and thereby Algerian boxer Imane Khelif could compete in women’s boxing in the Paris Olympics.
Imane is a man. Imane has XY chromosomes.
— Jon Root (@JonnyRoot_) August 3, 2024
Stop believing the narrative that this is just a testosterone level issue among women.
This is about a legitimate male fighting against females and the IOC has allowed it. https://t.co/jpJuisSwlO
Women don’t have XY chromosomes.
— Jon Root (@JonnyRoot_) August 2, 2024
Imane Khelif is a male by every objective, biological and scientific standard. pic.twitter.com/nheFjx26pP
If you Google, “How many genders are there?” the first answer you see will be: “There is no fixed number of gender identities because they exist on a spectrum, with infinite possibilities.” Such an idea is total nonsense. It is disorderly, chaotic and ‘fluid’. Our God is none of those things. We worship a God of order and of peace and our Creator that is “the same yesterday, today and always” (Hebrews 13:8). He has not changed his mind about male and female.
Using preferred pronouns out of fear of ostracism is simple fear of man. It is a dangerous trap, a slippery slope, a refusal to shine light in this dark, depraved, deceived world. Doing so is not being ‘wise as serpents’ as some might think. As Proverbs 29:25 says, “The fear of man brings a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord is safe.” In contrast, the Psalmist writes that the fear of the Lord–not the denial of his truth–is the beginning of wisdom.
So when you are deciding if you should follow the crowd in your email signature at work, or in your social media profile, do not portray yourself as someone who endorses the sin and deception of the age. Don’t deny the created order so cheaply. Our allegiance to God must be uncompromising. Don’t conform to the world.