By Jesse Higgins

Q: Some have claimed that Creation itself is the “67th book of the Bible”, teaching that what we observe should impact how we view God. This has been argued by some espousing homosexuality as a godly order. So…does the Creation order show God affirming homosexuality in some ways?

A: The obvious issue is that truths embedded in Creation itself are the easiest to read in bad faith; unless a particular truth is mercilessly unyielding (i.e. jump from a very high position and attempt an unfaithful read of gravity), or has otherwise been specifically attested to in the Scriptures.

Our hearts are deceptively wicked above all else and we need to have our senses trained “by constant use… to distinguish good from evil.”

It is after all, the Scriptures which ascribe dignity, purpose, worth, and eternity to us in a way uniquely distinct from all of creation. Nature, no less blighted by the Fall mind you, might rarely show a stronger, younger lion, monkey, etc rise against his father and take his mother and aunts as mates. Polyandry and polygyny exist across multiple classes and species. Many animals fight and kill for a mate, many severely injure their mates during copulation.

Many drone bee species can only mate once at which point their endophalluses are violently detached and they plummet to their deaths. Male ducks experience explosive evulsion of the cloaca, and similar to some dolphins can be found aggressively fighting one another while each trying, often successfully, to mate the same female.

Interesting that all these examples abound specifically regarding sexuality, dominance, and a binary sex of these species. Curious that the same, “book of creation,” is not genuinely used to argue for all the same behaviors that result in the complete subjugation of many males and almost all females in a given troupe, pod, area, etc. Are we to argue that all males in a region should be killed by the strongest and all the females given to him as might be the case with a Bengal tiger, or other such “example” from the “book”?

In all such cases, it is the Scriptures, which persist as a guiding light unmarred by the Fall, that tell us that these are not merely slightly less than ideal examples for us, but rather an abomination to the LORD. We were made in the image of GOD, not animals. This Truth in the Scriptures is the main way we know that hippos, elephants, eagles, monkeys, snakes, etc. are NOT what GOD behaves like, nor the forms He takes. Neither are they our aspiration and end.