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Speak with biblical clarity on gender and identity. Can someone be born with the wrong body? This question raises moral, social, and legal implications. Do you have a biblical response? In How Should We Think about Gender and Identity?, Robert S. Smith recognizes that to properly respond, we must first understand. Smith first defines terms and outlines the history and current debates around...

The biblical authors display a variety of different ways of speaking about these two anthropological aspects.56 What is consistently taught in both Testaments, however, is a dichotomous or bipartite view.57 That is, human beings consist of two distinct elements: body and soul.58 Furthermore, while the body perishes at death, and so can be separated from the soul, God’s intention is for it to be reunited with the soul in resurrection at the last judgment. This, for example, is what enables Jesus to
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