God makes it clear that his image bearers must live in dynamic communion with one another, thereby discovering and celebrating the good gift of one's own gender and that of the other. With a cross-shaped lens, we behold the beauty of man for woman and woman for man. None of us has ever lost that original design. No matter how broken we have become, we have never lost the potential to be good gifts for others!

Andrew Comiskey

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Shame is the raincoat over the soul repelling the living water of Jesus that would otherwise establish us as the beloved of God.

Andrew Comiskey

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Satan delights in homosexual perversion because it not only exists outside of marriage, but it also defiles God' very image reflected as male and female.

Andrew Comiskey

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Another related source of demonization is the homosexual relationship itself. [...] That attachment and communion are indeed inspired, but their source is demonic.

Andrew Comiskey

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Hopelessness sets in, when a man is bound up in his shame -- living small, within that closed horizon of fantasy and self-absorption.

Andrew Comiskey

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The image of God, then, involves gender identity and complementarity. God created gender in duality as male and female.

Andrew Comiskey

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