"I Identify as..."

  The term “I identify as…” has become a dominant personal philosophy of the American consciousness, and sadly, in many places around the world! In my opinion, this statement is the doorway down into the final abyss!!!!
 
Scripture declares: “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.” -Gen1:27.
 
This one single passage expresses God’s view of man’s ‘identity’: the image and likeness of God! Therefore, because God alone is sovereign, only He can determine man’s identity. However, and to the contrary, the phrase: “I identify as…” also speaks directly to the ‘identity’ of mankind, but from an exactly opposite position! In other words, although both God and man advocate for man’s ‘identity’, the definition AND application of ‘identity’ from both perspectives is as far apart as the East is from the West!
  Allow me to explain. I agree with God’s word that human life breaks down into two fundamentals:
           1.Who you are? (Identity)
           2.Why you are? (Unique purpose)
  To deviate…in any way from these two fundamentals will over time cause your life to spiral downward into hopelessness, despair, and even murder! Why? To identify self, or another human being, using any other criteria than the image and likeness of God is not just wrong, or immoral… but is idolatry! Remember, God alone is omnipotent and omniscient, and in His sovereignty chose to create man in His image and likeness, which, for emphasis, I repeat, is God’s only definition of man’s identity!
  First, God is Sovereign, which means He alone rules. In other words, because He created all things, He alone rules and reigns over all. Therefore, mankind had/has absolutely nothing to do with ‘WHO’ or ‘HOW’ he was created…or Who he is…apart from God! Before man even existed, Genesis 1:26 declared ‘how’ God would create mankind: in His image and likeness! God asked of no human their counsel or advice! And subsequently, Genesis 1:27 declares God acted and created man in His image and likeness!!! I repeat, it was God’s Sovereign decision to create man in His own image and likeness--before man even existed! Therefore, for a human being to say “I identify as…” philosophically and in practice---deifies himself, by determining his own identity---which Genesis 1:26 and 27 declares is reserved for God alone! Allow me to repeat myself, for any man to identify himself…exalts self as god!
  In practice, the man who says “I identify as…” tells the same lie of Lucifer in Isaiah 14:14: “I will be like the most High.” In other words, both statements: “I will be like the Most High God” and “I identify as” possess the same meaning—self-deification. How? When Lucifer made the claim: “I will be like the Most High God”, he did not mean: “God will rule some things, AND, I also will rule some other things”—for that is impossible, and Lucifer knew it! Remember, God is called “the only Sovereign”(1Tim6:15), and sovereignty means rulership…and because Lucifer knows God’s word(Mat4:6), he would have never thought he could rule along with God as His equal!! On the contrary, Lucifer desired to replace God—which is why he was instantly kicked out of heaven when he made this statement(Lu10:18)! So too like Satan, when any human declares “I identity as”, by God’s definition of the word “identity”, man rejects God’s sovereign determination of identity, replacing it with whatever man chooses to identify as! This is SELF-DEIFICATION!
  Interestingly, and finally, even if a person chooses to identify as God’s image and likeness, that one still commits idolatry! Why? Because he yet determines his own identity! I repeat, if you make the statement about yourself, “I identify as God’s image and likeness!” using the meaning and tone of the contemporary culture that uses the statement: “I identify as…”---that one still commits idolatry! Why? Remember, the thinking of the contemporary culture that declares “I identify as…” believes that they can determine their own identity…not the doctor, nor the parents, and especially not God!!! Therefore, even by declaring what ‘appears’ to be God’s word: “I identify as God’s image and likeness!”, on the other hand, they are determining this solely through their own world-view, which exists as:  “I am the captain of my own ship!” Or, I do whatever I want!” Or, "I can be whatever I want!" which are statements that originate in self-deification, and ultimately originate in Satan’s delusion: “I will be like the most High God!”
  I repeat, to determine your own identity, by default constitutes idolatry—because you are removing God’s sovereignty and replacing it with man's sovereignty!
  On the contrary, identity can only be determined by ‘revelation’ from God to man. I repeat, only God can reveal to you about you!
  Ephesians 1:17-18 declares,
              “17.That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory,
                    may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the
                     knowledge of him:
               18.The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye
                     may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the
                     riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,”
 
Why? Because God sovereignly created you in His image and likeness. Therefore, only the Sovereign, Creator God can reveal to you who you are, i.e.your identity.
 
 
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The law of sowing and reaping, present in much of God’s creation was created according to God’s nature, and was given to mankind to demonstrate how that nature works (Rom1:20)
                                                     -Derrick Jackson