What is a woman? Well, many people nowadays struggle to define the terms “man” and “woman” because of their secular, anti-God worldview (or because they are scared of the culture!), which says there really isn’t such a thing as man or woman—and men can be women and women men. And now the Cambridge Dictionary has updated its definition of “man” and “woman” to include this gender ideology.
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:
an adult who lives and identifies as female though they may have been said to have a different sex at birth:
• She was the first trans woman elected to a national office.
• mary is a woman who was assigned male at birth.
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:
Genesis 1:27 KJV – “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.”
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.
