Gov. Sanders cites an example from a Department of Health memo and claims other uses of what she calls “nonsense terms” have been reported to her office.
The Old Testament literally doesn’t contain gender neutral language, which is a large part of why this all is so messed up in the first place.
Hebrew didn’t have a neutral gender.
There was no ‘parent’ just ‘mother’ or ‘father.’
So a number of passages ended up super weird as a result, including the “he made them male and female” in Genesis 1 where a plural God makes humans male and female in ‘his’ image.
Which was the key line that’s been used for millennia now to prejudice against gender nonconformity, including its being cited in the NT regarding marriage in works written just a few years after the emperor of Rome married two different men.
The New Testament (which is what these types of groups typically point towards) was written originally in Koine Greek, which uses its version of “he” for “individual” regardless of the individual making it more “gender neutral”.
You must also understand you are looking at something old and wanting to only project today’s meanings on it. Take the English word “man”. It is reality a gender neutral word meaning “adult”, and “girl” is also a gender neutral word, meaning “child”.
So you can’t look at something and declare “well today it means this, so it must have always meant this” because this is false. So just because something today means X, you must look into it’s history to truely understand what it really meant. And when you do, you realize that the Bible really is gender neutral and trying to make it not is to alter the true mean of the Bible.
The Old Testament literally doesn’t contain gender neutral language, which is a large part of why this all is so messed up in the first place.
Hebrew didn’t have a neutral gender.
There was no ‘parent’ just ‘mother’ or ‘father.’
So a number of passages ended up super weird as a result, including the “he made them male and female” in Genesis 1 where a plural God makes humans male and female in ‘his’ image.
Which was the key line that’s been used for millennia now to prejudice against gender nonconformity, including its being cited in the NT regarding marriage in works written just a few years after the emperor of Rome married two different men.
The New Testament (which is what these types of groups typically point towards) was written originally in Koine Greek, which uses its version of “he” for “individual” regardless of the individual making it more “gender neutral”.
You must also understand you are looking at something old and wanting to only project today’s meanings on it. Take the English word “man”. It is reality a gender neutral word meaning “adult”, and “girl” is also a gender neutral word, meaning “child”.
So you can’t look at something and declare “well today it means this, so it must have always meant this” because this is false. So just because something today means X, you must look into it’s history to truely understand what it really meant. And when you do, you realize that the Bible really is gender neutral and trying to make it not is to alter the true mean of the Bible.
https://interestingliterature.com/2023/08/woman-word-origin-etymology/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymological_fallacy