Importantly, the “you” in Genesis 3:1-5 is plural (“you all”): “for in the day you (all) eat of it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil” (vs 5). Because of her sinful desire, she ate and gave some to her husband (who was standing right there). Adam, the federal head, stands as the responsible agent for the sin they — and now we — share. Due to their sin, which is a twisting of God’s good design, the lust of the flesh plunged all of humanity into sin. Now, we are all conceived in sin (Psalm 51:5), and Adam’s sinful flesh is in all of mankind (1 Cor. 15:22). All that is contrary to God in us comes from Adam’s sin, which is now our sinful flesh.
Nevertheless, God’s good design, as reflected in our being made in His image, remains. Sin mars, but does not change, what it means to be human, to be made male and female in the image of God, to be made for the purpose of being fruitful and multiplying, filling and stewarding the earth. The normative command is that the pattern of sexual difference (male and female) is heterosexual. You cannot, according to God’s creation ordinance, separate sex from sexuality.
But the category of sexual orientation, a 19th-century Freudian category mistake, does just this—it separates sex from sexuality. The American Psychological Association defines sexual orientation as “an enduring emotional, romantic, or sexual attraction that one feels toward men, toward women, or toward both.” The modernist invention of “homosexual orientation” asserts that sexual attraction is independent from being male or female, which is only possible because of the sin of our flesh. If you can separate your sexual attraction from your sex, then you are rejecting God’s creation ordinance as binding and true, and you are defining yourself based on how you may feel rather than what God has made and blessed. Read more»
Rosaria Butterfield | “Yes, God Is Anti-Gay” | Reformation 21 | September 10, 2026
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