While people are being accused of new phobias (gender phobia, racial phobia, political phobia, etc.) I want to add two new ones to the list. First is lexicophobia, the fear of using words according to their dictionary definitions, choosing rather to use words based on feelings and opinions. A number of years ago the definition of “gay” was changed from being happy go lucky or something similar to male homosexual. So now the old song about three gay caballeros would have a new meaning. But there is a new more serious misuse of language. Attempts are being made to use the term “woman”, rather than being someone with a female reproductive system and female genitalia to being an expression of emotion and opinion, not having any factual basis. Similarly the term “man” is being subverted. If “woman” does not refer to someone with female genitalia, what words do we use to identify people with female genitalia and those with male genitalia? It seems that such a distinction is no longer to be made, leading to all sorts of undesirable outcomes, such as women’s athletic records being replaced by people with male genitalia.
If a person’s opinion is that of a woman being locked in a man’s body or a man locked in a woman’s body, the solution is to get out of the encumbrance of the body. But where do you go in a physical world without your physical body? According to eyewitness testimony, see Heaven is Beyond Imagination, the person’s spirit has no sexual organs. They are not needed in that world. However, we retain our masculine or feminine natures there. These apparently supersede the biological determination of the human DNA. The XY or XX chromosomes have a large influence over a person’s total development in this physical world, but how this translates into the spiritual world, where there is no DNA and no chemistry or physics like here, is probably a mystery of the Creator beyond understanding in this world.
However, according to eyewitnesses of the spirit world, one’s spirit goes to one of two places, and the choice is entirely determined by what one has done in the physical world before going there. The first is to go into the presence of the Creator and the new world He has created for an eternal love relationship with Him. Since no evil or sin or bad attitudes are allowed there, there is a problem because everyone has failed to be without any fault or sin. But God in His unimaginable love for us has Himself paid the price of our failure. We only have to accept His gift. Without that, our spirit goes to the domain of the Father of Lies.
And this leads to the second phobia, veritaphobia, the fear of truth. Too many people are being led down the path of the Father of Lies to the point they are afraid of truth. They prefer instead to base their lives on feelings and opinions. We are seeing an increasing fear of the truth of biological gender, preferring instead a gender based on nothing except feelings and opinions. Along with that is the fear of the documented historical truth about who Jesus was and what He did for us. There is ample evidence from which to determine the truth of this matter, but people are afraid to look at that evidence. Jesus said he is the way, the truth, and the life. If we deny Him, we are no longer able to recognize truth, and instead believe what the Father of Lies tells us about believing feelings and opinions rather than truth. Since Jesus is the one who paid the ultimate penalty we each owe for our wrongdoings, if we have ignored the evidence of who Jesus was, the destination of our spirit when we leave the physical body is in the company of the Father of Lies, where there is no love, no peace, no joy, no companionship, no health, no healing, no freedom, nothing good. This is based on eyewitness testimony, cf. the Appendix in Heaven Is Beyond Imagination. In a court of law, eyewitness testimony is worth a lot more than any professional opinions. Since the objective of a court of law is to determine truth, don’t you think you can find truth in the eyewitness testimony I mentioned? Or are you going to continue to base your beliefs on opinions rather than objective truth?