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Insight's to the Word with Pastor Teague!
As a Christian, a follower of Jesus Christ and a believer in the authorship of the Bible, I do not agree with the transgender issue. Perversion is the first word that comes to mind but allow me to progress with my opinion. Recent foolish decisions by government representatives to allow male individuals to access female restrooms and vice a versa have brought about another social, political and religious division to America. It seems to be a serious and complicated matter for most. But the reality of this transgender issue is not really complicated. Our massive and growing anti-God media culture have made this issue a popular one to say the least.
According to dictionary.com, transgender is defined as: noting or relating to a person whose gender identity does not correspond to that person’s biological sex assigned at birth. Let me break this definition down for you.
In other words a transgender person is one who is born with evidential proof as to the gender God intended them to have. The key here is the self identification. This simplifies the transgender issue. If a person is a man or a woman by gender and “identifies” himself/herself as someone of the “opposite sex” then he has a psychological issue – not a biological one. He/she needs professional assistance to accept who he/she was born to be. This psyche issue doesn’t give a transgender the right to engage in activities that are correctly gender based – i.e.: using restrooms identified as being male and female. In opening this pandora’s box we have entertained allowing humanity to reverse the God designed gender order they were born with.
We have to get a handle on this issue…fast. If not this will invade every facet of male and female identification evidence that effects us as a God created world. I don’t think those who introduced this perversion of creation knows what they’ve done. It’s obvious they don’t. It’s also obvious that those proponents of this disillusionment are rejecting God in all of His creation. More so they are resisting their God given sexual identification. To change this identificaiton is to assume their choice above God’s choice for them at birth.
There’s another term that can be thrown into the transgender mix. It is the term cisgender. According to dictionary.com cisgender is defined as: noting or relating to a person whose gender identity corresponds with that person’s biological sex assigned at birth.
If you do not have perverted and confused illusions as to your biological gender assigned at birth then you are a cisgender. You then are psychologically balanced in your gender thinking and self evaluation.
dictionary.com has made this relatively easy to debate…if there is real debate to have at all. The operative language in the above definitions is “biological sex assigned at birth.” There really is no other way to put the argument of gender. I like the “assigned” operative. In other words someone, somewhere, made an assignment to a person when they were created in their mother’s womb. Oh, did I say something outside the gender argument? I mentioned the biological word “womb” which as far as I know can only be assigned to the female gender. And the last time I checked it is only the female gender who can give birth to a human being. If you think you’re a woman and don’t have the corresponding biological sexual identity evidence otherwise – then you’re a man. No matter what you think of yourself, how you look at yourself or how much you hate your assigned gender – you are a man. If you can’t handle that biological fact then you may need to seek out corrective psychological assistance to accept your birth assignment. To deny your bio assignment is deny the God who assigned it to you. This is both a psychological issue and a spiritual one. Your heart (spirit nature) needs to be redeemed from the perversion of sin so that your mind can be transformed intot the mind of Christ. Our spiritual nature always will positively impact our psychological health.
While there are a boat load of scriptures that give foundation to the biological creative doctrine I want to throw some scripture on the table in closing my unsolicited opinion on the transgender issue.
Romans 1:20-32 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse. (21) For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. (22) Professing to be wise, they became fools, (23) and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures. (24) Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them. (25) For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. (26) For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, (27) and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error. (28) And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper, (29) being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips, (30) slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, (31) without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful; (32) and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them.
Now let me share with you a few of these verses as they are found in the translation “The Message”.
Romans 1:26-27,32 Worse followed. Refusing to know God, they soon didn’t know how to be human either–women didn’t know how to be women, men didn’t know how to be men. (27) Sexually confused, they abused and defiled one another, women with women, men with men–all lust, no love. And then they paid for it, oh, how they paid for it–emptied of God and love, godless and loveless wretches. (32) And it’s not as if they don’t know better. They know perfectly well they’re spitting in God’s face. And they don’t care–worse, they hand out prizes to those who do the worst things best!
It is quite obvious that being a cisgender does not equate with the growing abnormal dynamics of a sexual culture going awry. But as a cisgender I am advocating two things. First, I want to say that is hope for any transgender who is struggling to accept your God assigned lot in life as a man or woman. There are professional folk who can give you the counseling you need to arrive at being a cisgender as opposed to being a transgender. The same God who created you with the biological identity evidence you were born with is the same God who loves you so much that He has given society professionally educated counselors to assist you with accepting your biological assignment. Second, I want you to know that while Christian cisgender’s may be marked as bigots we really are not. We just have this uncanny dynamic about us that accepts God in full creation. We believe that God is the one who “assigns” our biological birth identification. To attempt to change that either psychologically or surgically is to deny God. Call me a bigot if you choose but I will put the authority of Holy Writ above your self proclaimed and assumed authority to change your biological birth assignment. Scripture is clear on the issue. To change your birth assignment in any manner is to deny God, resist His authority and bear the consequences of that denial. On the other hand God is merciful and gracious to us to forgive us of all our sin. The frightening part of the above scripture is found in verse 32 of Romans 1: (32) And it’s not as if they don’t know better. They know perfectly well they’re spitting in God’s face. And they don’t care–worse, they hand out prizes to those who do the worst things best!
To change the transgender issue will start with a change of “caring”. Through faith, compassion, and agape love, Christian’s can prove that God is the only answer for this sexaul
We eliminate the transgender issue by accepting our cisgender assignment. Simple. Not complicated at all. The complication is the result of our “futile speculations” (Romans 1.21) instead of accepting God – even in our biological assignment in life.
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Excellent writing that illustrates the “Truth” of the matter. The psychological issue has been recognized for decades until it was changed by psychologists less than three decades ago which happen to identify as something other than their birth assignment.