Hi! I’m nonbinary and Christian and I keep dwelling on that “God made them, man and woman” phrase that keeps showing up. I feel confused and unsafe?? Am I allowed to be nb and Christian??

queerly-christian:

queerchristianaffirmations:

queerchristianaffirmations:

Hello love!

First of all, yes, you are allowed to be nb and Christian. 100% so. God created you as nb! He loves you, and he created you!

Here is a post that does a very good job explaining why that verse isn’t exactly as black-and-white as it may seem. 

God loves you, and he supports you! You were created as nb, perfectly formed in God’s eyes.

-mod Shelby

Galatians 3:28

“there is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male or female for you are all one in Jesus Christ”

Check out this vid by Austen Hartke too, where he talks about all the binaries in Genesis 1 and how they aren’t really so binary after all – God creates the sea and the dry land, but what about the shoreline, the tides? God creates the day and the night, but what about dawn and dusk? God creates plants and animals, but what about fungi and bacteria? God creates male and female, but that’s not so binary after all, either! Check out this quote from nonbinary theologian Alan Hooker on the matter:

“‘Beginning and end’ is a pairing that represents the whole scope of history and time. ‘Alpha and Omega’ stretches from the first letter of the alphabet to the last, representing the whole alphabet in one swoop by referring to its extremities.

‘From head to toe’, ‘from top to bottom’, and ‘from cradle to grave’ all denote a spectrum through the use of pairs considered to be extremities of that spectrum. Take for example Genesis 1.1: God creates the ‘heaven and earth’, i.e. everything. Or even the phrase ‘there was evening and there was morning’, signifying the passing of a whole day.

Now return to Genesis 1.27: ‘male and female [God] created them’. Male and female. I think you can all see what I’m probably getting at here. The ‘and’ is not a binary ‘and’. Male and female can disclose a spectrum of varied gender identities in the same way that ‘Alpha and Omega’ discloses the whole alphabet, or how ‘from head to toe’ means the length of the whole body.”