All this week on Things Unseen, we've been reflecting on one of the most fundamental

and important questions we could ever ask.

What is man?

And today I want to return to something we were talking about the other day.

There a remarkable fact that God created man as male and female.

This may be important for me to underline something here.

That isn't only the view of Genesis chapter 2.

It was the view of Jesus on the basis of Genesis chapter 2.

Here's Matthew chapter 19 verse 4.

Have you not read, he asked the Pharisees, that he who created them from the beginning made

them male and female, and said that for a man shall leave his father and mother and hold

fast to his wife and the two shall become one flesh.

So they are no longer two but one flesh.

What that for God is joined together, let not man separate.

He could not have made it clearer that the teaching God gave in the beginning, far from

being contradicted, changed or adapted by Jesus, as sometimes people say, is the very

teaching of Jesus.

So why is this so important?

Well because it establishes that the Christian view, Jesus view, is that marriage is between

a man and a woman.

There's another implication of this.

There were ever only meant to be two created genders.

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