Cambridge Dictionary: A Woman Is “An Adult Who . . . Identifies as Female”

This online dictionary—whose tagline, ironically, is “make your words meaningful”—now gives a new secondary definition for man and woman (also note the gender-neutral “them” pronouns) that is anything but meaningful:

A man cannot be a woman and a woman cannot be a man. It’s not complicated when we start with God’s Word as our authority.

In other words, there’s really no such thing as man or woman—they’ve become meaningless terms! But that’s not the definition of a man or a woman. You see, a male adult person was created by God to be a man, and a female adult person was created by God to be a woman. A man cannot be a woman and a woman cannot be a man. It’s not complicated when we start with God’s Word as our authority, which says:

So God created man in his own image,
    in the image of God he created him;
    male and female he created them. (Genesis 1:27)

And science confirms the Bible’s account of two genders. Males have XY sex chromosomes, and females have XX.

You can read a more detailed definition of man and woman as part of our statement of faith. But you probably don’t need to! The definition of male and female is obvious even to a child—it’s only our world, in rebellion against God and his design for us, that creates confusion regarding man and woman.

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