Sunday, October 30, 2022

Creation Moment 10/31/2022 - Image of God or Frankenstein?

"In a recent article on the Atlantic magazine’s website, there was a culture piece that looked at horror movie villains as “queer icons.”
.....the article— the author, Mary Retta, looked at several different “movie monsters,” and one association really stood out. 
She quoted another author, Susan Stryker, who in 1994 said this in regard to Frankenstein’s monster: 
The transsexual body is an unnatural body. It is the product of medical science. It is a technological construction. It is flesh torn apart and sewn together again in a shape other than that in which it was born.”

-----Everyone is remade in one way or another. Either we “remake” ourselves in our own fallen and distorted image by surgery, addiction, hedonism, false religion, doing what is right in our own eyes (In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes. Judges 21:25), or some other panacea which excludes God. Or as Scripture teaches, we are remade in the image of Christ.
 
The development of the child in the womb is one of the wonders of the created world, wherein genetic material from the father and mother comes together to create a new, unique individual. Scripture rightly says that people are “fearfully and wonderfully made” (Psalm 139:14). 
By contrast, Victor Frankenstein crudely sewed together his monster, hindered by the constraints of his abilities and tools. The resulting abomination is rejected in disgust by his creator.....Science is also co-opted for so-called “gender affirmative care” in which
biological males receive surgery and hormones to feminize their appearance and vice versa for women. However, there is no way to truly turn a male into a female or a female into a male. 
A man will never have the capacity to bear and nurse offspring as a mother does, and a woman will never father children. This sad imitation of manhood or womanhood robs them of their God-given femininity or masculinity that should be healthy and honoring for them as image-bearers of God. In this sin-cursed world, however, people are often confused, connived, or coerced into believing lies about their bodies, gender, or sexuality. 
 
Victor Frankenstein provides his monster with a horrific “new life” pieced together from previously dead pieces of corpses and electrified with lightning. 
People have always sought their own solution to the curse of death, and the monster could be seen as almost an “anti-resurrected” being. Instead of the body being gloriously transformed to a state suited to eternal life in the presence of Christ, Frankenstein’s monster has a cursed existence between life and death." AIG