Byzantine Spirituality and theologians of folly taught that we become sexless when we die, that our spirits lose gender when ww shed these bodies. This is utter nonsense, while our genitals convey on us maleness or females, our spirits were in bodies male or female and this effected how we think and are; we do not lose our gender on death.
This false doctrine of genderless heaven & resurrection came from concepts of asceticism based on gnostic texts. The monks and nuns contemplating the sacredness of angels took Jesus’ words, “For when they have risen from among the dead, men do not marry and women are not given in marriage, but they are as angels are in Heaven.,” (Mark 12:25) as proof we become sexless and genderless, this is rather bizarre interpretation on account that passage is baiut marriage and divorce in context not genders, and angels had sex with women Genesis 6:2-4), there are female angels (Zachariah 5:9), and that Jesus Christ our Lord raised from death in a new body was a Man still. Monastics twist Paul’s words, “there is no longer male of female in Christ,” (Galatians 3:28), when it follows “neither Jew or Gentile,” it meant no caste system, women are equal to men in Christ, same with Jew or Gentile are equal in God’s Grace; it is not proof there is no longer genders in Christ!
We remain perpetually male or female in spirit in heaven. How do I know that? God The Father is male, God The Son id male, and Jesus said, “God is spirit, his worshippers worship Him in spirit and truth.” (John 4:24). And yet our spirits and bodies are made in God’s image, “God made mankind in his image, He made male and female in his Image.” (Genesis 1:27). Orthodox Jews believes that our male and female gender is then eternal, for God who is eternal made us male and female in His image. St. Augustine of Hippo, Western Christendom’s most lauded theologian said “women shall be raised from the dead as women.” I am in agreement with him on this and Original Sin.
Beware of the lies we will be sexless. Gender is eternal. God is The Father, which is male, Jesus is God The Son, which is male and they cannot change, “For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed,” (Malachi 3:6). Jesus Christ our Lord was Risen in his Glorious Body as a Man, and He is the same forever, “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.” (Hebrews 13:8). If God cannot change, why would we who are made in His image, both male and female, change in heaven or risen from death?!
For my Catholic cousins who stumble in this, is The Virgin Mary not still female? Hmmmm? If she ceases in Heaven to be female, she is no longer Mother of God, or as ww Protestants say Mother of Jesus. That creates problems, and so we must shirk the lie of sexless and genderless heaven and Resurrection. For the truth is God has retained his maleness in Father and Son Persons of the Holy Trinity for all time, and Christ rose from death as male. And we are made in the Image of Go, both male and female (Genesis 1:27).
We need to be wary of any belief that erases the importance of gender. For it was the Son of Man, Jesus Christ who came into the world to save us, and angels arnt genderless, there are female angels, “Then I looked up and saw two women flying toward us, gliding on the wind. They had wings like a stork, and they picked up the basket and flew into the sky,” (Zachariah 5:9), and “the sons of God (angels) saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose. In those days, and for some time after, giant Nephilites lived on the earth, for whenever the sons of God had intercourse with women, they gave birth to children who became the heroes and famous warriors of ancient times.” (Genesis 6:2, 4). To procreate you need sperm and an egg, so the male angels had to have penises to achieve this. The point is both sets of angels lived in heaven, and were not genderless, so why would we be genderless? It refutes interpreting, “we shall be like angels,” (Mark 12:25) as proof of no gender in heaven because Zachariah 5:9, and Genesis 6:2-4 prove angels are female and male.
I felt it incumbent upon me to make this post because the attack on gender through Byzantine and Gnostic beliefs is Antigod, not what angels are, and is against the eternal truth that all males and females remain so eternally. Amen.
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