pro·noun /ˈprōˌnoun/ - noun - a word that can function by itself as a noun phrase and that refers either to the participants in the discourse (e.g., I, you ) or to someone or something mentioned elsewhere in the discourse (e.g., she, it, this ).
John 1:1
In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God
All words belong to the Word, including pronouns.
In other words, all pronouns are His pronouns.
Acts 17:26
God made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place
God picked your pronouns for you. You are obligated to live in submission to the pronouns that have been chosen for you. Your pronouns did not merely materialize out a post-modern cauldron of moving goo. They came from somewhere. They refer back to something.
Pronouns are completely contingent on their source. You do not have a pronoun without a previous mention in the discourse. This conversation was initiated by God, the Word, who injected Himself into the dead silence.
"The use of pronouns today is a deadly serious thing. It is not a matter of manners, or avoiding a faux pas. It is not a matter of showing courtesy to non-Christians. This is not about courtesy; rather, it is about coercion. It is not social graces; it is social engineering. We are having to stave off orc-talk." - Douglas Wilson, more HERE
We cannot afford to be amateurs when it comes to pronouns. We cannot participate in the realm of rhetoric without first understanding the grammar and logic of the conversation. And the Good News is that God has graciously provided us a grammar and a logic. He has assigned the lines and defined the terms. He is a God of order and has shared with us how it is all meant to fit together.
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