Why are Christians obsessed with gender?

It’s not that way in the Bible.

Why are Christians always fighting about gender? If you didn’t read the Bible for yourself, you might think it’s a big long book about that single subject. Men vs. women. Male behavior vs. female behavior.

Over and over, and over. Rinse and repeat.

I set out to to learn about God and gender. I read hundreds of scholarly papers and books. When I realized what Christianity did, I had to laugh.

In the Bible, God is both genders. The teachings are offered to help you become both genders too. Let’s talk about that.

So God created mankind in his own image,
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them.

In this three-line poem, we learn the gender of God. If male and female are ‘in his own image’, then the ‘image’ is . . . male and female.

“The poetical structure of Gen. 1:27 clearly suggests that God himself too was both male and female,” as Johannes C. de Moor observes.

Throughout the Bible, God appears in both male and female images. From Psalm 22:10 to James 1:18, God “begat” humans. This is the language of birthing.

In Isaiah 42:14, God is the speaker: “Like a woman in labor I groan; I pant and…