Hermaphrodites.

In my own mind, one of the greatest challenges to the Christian interpretation of sexuality are hermaphrodites.  The subject is rather uncharted in Christian or secular societies.  Some would be aware of the recent publicity regarding the practice of gender allocation.  When a child is born with the characteristics of both genders the medical fraternity has recommended gender allocation.  In other words they, possibly with the parents, make a decision to perform surgery to determine a specific gender.

In the developing world this type of surgery has not been performed and hermaphrodites live as relatively normal people.  The question I often ask to Christians is "Should hermaphrodites marry a male or a female"?  One of the reasons I ask this question is because often evangelical Christians state that the Bible has an answer to every situation in life, because it is like a blueprint.  In my opinion this is a naive and ignorant statement.  No volume regardless of the size could ever contain the answers to every condition and problem of humanity let alone an ancient religious text.

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