Posted on 01/28/2022 9:40:08 PM PST by SeekAndFind
God isn’t perfect. According to a tweet by a “transgender ally,” sometimes he makes mistakes we can fix. Listen to what she wrote:
God made you a brunette, yet you are now a blonde. God gave you bad vision, yet you fixed it with glasses. God gave you crooked teeth, yet you straightened them with braces. Trans people change the outside to match the inside just like you do. Sit down. Jesus said to.
Allegedly, God could have given you the wrong body, and fixing that mistake is just like getting glasses or braces. This thinking, however, is misguided for at least four reasons.
First, it presumes God makes mistakes. Not everything that exists was intentionally made that way by our Creator. Genesis explains that God made all things good. What Scripture also teaches, though, is that creation became tainted by sin, and God’s perfect design was broken. Babies are born with missing limbs, impaired immune systems, or Down syndrome. That’s not God’s intent, however. Humanity sinned and corrupted creation along with it. Birth defects—whether anatomical or physiological—are not God’s fault, but are ultimately the result of mankind’s sin.
Second, it wrongly compares the transgender desire to change one’s body to repairing a damaged organ. Every body part is designed to function a certain way. Eyes are meant to see, and teeth are meant to grind food. Getting glasses (or LASIK surgery), for example, is meant to restore the eyes to their original purpose, which is to see clearly.
My son, for example, was born with a droopy eyelid that impaired his ability to see. A doctor surgically “lifted” his eyelid so it wouldn’t obscure his vision and his eye could function properly. This wasn’t an attempt to “change the outside to match the inside.” It was simply a surgery to correct an eyelid deformity and restore an organ to its original design.
Transgender ideation, however, isn’t concerned with correcting a malfunctioning organ. Rather, the transgender person often wants to alter normally functioning body systems (e.g., through hormones) or amputate healthy and fully functioning sex organs.
Third, it wrongly presumes one’s internal perception is accurate. The tweet claims transgender people merely want to change their body to match how they feel inside. But why assume a person’s thinking about their body is always correct? There are many conditions where a person’s internal state doesn’t match their body and it’s their perception—not their body—that is mistaken.
Some people, for example, wrongly perceive their body to be fat even when they are thin. There is a mismatch between their mind and body, but it’s their “inside” that’s mistaken. Why automatically presume the internal perception of someone who identifies as transgender is correct? It’s possible they should alter their mind to match their body and not vice versa.
Fourth, the tweet begs the question. This is perhaps the most serious problem. Begging the question (or circular reasoning) is a logical error in which you presume something is true instead of proving it to be true. In this case, the conclusion the author wants you to believe is that it’s normal for a transgender person to change their body to match their “inside.” What evidence does she provide for such a claim? None. She offers some illustrations (correcting vision with glasses or bad teeth with braces) to describe what she means.
But illustrations are not arguments, and they don’t prove anything. Illustrations illustrate. They make an idea more clear by describing it in a different way. Her claim is that altering your sex organs to make them match how you feel inside is similar to wearing glasses or getting braces (a dubious claim indeed). Even if wearing glasses were analogous to amputating a healthy sex organ (which I don’t grant), all the author has done is provide an illustration to attempt to more clearly describe what she is talking about. But whether it’s right to cosmetically alter your body and/or sex organs to match how you feel is precisely what needs to be proven. This tweet, however, simply assumes that claim is true and provides poor analogies to illustrate it. The author does nothing to provide a reason why such a claim is true in the first place.
These four missteps in thinking are evidence that people aren’t thinking clearly about important matters. No one denies that some people experience what they perceive is a mismatch between their body and mind. Neither does anyone deny that such an experience is a serious condition. In fact, Christians recognize these people are valuable image-bearers of God who need our love, compassion, and care. Where we diverge from our secular-thinking friends (some of whom claim to be Christian) is their belief that God erred with their body, that their “inside” experience is inerrant, and that the solution lies with hormone treatment and radical cosmetic alterations.
The only hope for transgender individuals—and indeed for everyone—is not an external change, but an internal change. It’s not about a transformation of their body, but a transformation of their soul. Only the Great Physician can do that.
Stopped reading right there.
Heretics.
” change their body to match their “inside.”
How are those chromosome change operations coming along?
Greg Koukl shout out!
This:
“Second, it wrongly compares the transgender desire to change one’s body to repairing a damaged organ.”
Is correct.
I think another implication not mentioned is:
this is predicated on the idea there is something wrong, akin to a disease or physical defect, with transgenderism and this premise is certainly not what the good liberals would want anyone to think and
If it is a problem to be corrected, then another way to correct it is also viable, eg drugs or brain implants etc...that stops the person from feeling transgender.
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Ultimately, unfortunately, logic doesn’t matter. This is about power and control.
Mentally ill people often say things that make no sense.
A reputable Christian ministry starts with a title like that? Don’t waste my time. Pffft...
transgenders- creating God in THEIR own image- Sorry folks, doesn’t work that way-
Some people identify as blind or as amputees and maim themselves to put their bodies in line with that self-perception. I liken the “transgendered” to those people.
A true hermaphrodite, I could understand having that attitude.
As most know, a hermaphrodite is a person born with both sets of genitals. Yes, I does happen. Until very recently, a doctor would ‘correct’ the situation so that only one set of genitals was present. Modern day parents may (foolishly) want to wait a while and let the child chose.
Some things remain constant. It’s much easier to get through life having one definite set, having one definite sex.
Not well, I would suspect.
The illogical that the outside must be fix vs the inside must be fix... per God we are all flawed to some degree on inside and this is what we fix
Ack. God is screwing things up, and Transgenders are cleaning up the mess???
Just wow.
The illogical that the outside must be fix vs the inside must be fix... per God we are all flawed to some degree on inside and this is what we fix
This stuff can not be taken seriously.
I read like 5 words. I am done.
What the heck is going on with kids today?!? When I was growing up back in the '80s nobody was "trans". We were boys and girls. There were always a few weird kids as there always are. But now half the kids seen to "identify" as LGBTXYZWTF. Something has gone very wrong.
OOPs. . .must have hit the button twice.
God doesn’t make mistakes.
I feel sorry for those who are going to find that out the hard way.
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