Counsel #6 — Idolizing Self-Hood

Picture: Counsel #6 — Idolizing Self-HoodCI 63.1

Many people believe the current celebration of transgender expression is an outcome of the sexual revolution of the 1960s, the increase in technology, and/or the increased activism of the LGBTQIA+ community. Certainly, these are factors in the growth of transgender behaviors. However, idolizing self-hood over God’s will stems from Satan’s temptations to Eve in the Garden of Eden and is perpetuated in more recent times by the continuing ideologies of philosophers and poets such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Fredrich Nietzsche, Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Wordsworth, and many more.CI 63.2

In the ensuing development of modern self-hood, ethics becomes a function of feeling and current social practice rather than a course of behavior rooted in God’s moral law.^{[62]https://adventistreview.org/the-three-great-temptations-of-the-end-times/} The Bible as sacred text is no longer authoritative; identity rooted in mere expressive individualism reigns supreme, and God is left heartbroken.CI 63.3

“God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves, who exchanged the truth of God for the lie.” Romans 1:24, 25 NKJVCI 63.4

“When the people are thus led to believe that desire is the highest law, that liberty is license, and that man is accountable only to himself, who can wonder that corruption and depravity teem on every hand?” Ellen White in The Great Controversy, p. 555CI 63.5

Reflect: How is transgender expression idolizing self-hood over God’s design?CI 63.6