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.
How is mutilating your body knowing it will never become the opposite sex a good thing? They don’t believe in God, so why are they bringing him into this?
That’s why I’m so popular, here.
God does not MAKE mistakes.
I don’t think they make them that small. 😊
LOL!
So why is one child born with a horrible birth defect, causing it to suffer immeasurable pain and agony - while another child is born without any defects?
Why does "mankind's sin" manifest in one innocent child, but not in another?
Where is the logic, or justice, in that?
(Hint: This is where the author suddenly abandons all semblance of rationality and refers to the "mysterious ways" of unfathomable "divine providence.")
NOTE: Not arguing in favor of atheism here - just attacking the baseless and indefensible assertion that birth defects (as well as natural calamities, etc.) are the result of sin.
Regards,
Trannies are wack.
So do the unsaved/those that don’t know God.
Bible is full of ‘em.
Blowing a tranny means something entirely different to a truck driver like me than it does to someone like Obama.
There are TWO GENDERS. The rest are mental disorders. PERIOD.
The fallacy of ‘fixing something God got wrong’ isn’t cured by totally rewiring one’s existence. A car with bad wiring needs an auto electrician to fix the bad wiring to whatever function isn’t working. It doesn’t doesn’t mean the entirety of the wiring and functions have to be changed to operate contrary to the factory manual. Neither does it mean that every other car on the road has to recognize that his left-turn signal really means a right turn....
The other fallacy is that ‘transgendering’ implies something is actually done beyond the cosmetic (e.g., taking hormone shots or actually having a breast reduction operation as in that movie chick’s case -Ellen [Elliot] Page). Most ‘transgenders’ don’t have the full surgery.
You can bet this Lia swimmer won’t get it whacked off; he likes parading his junk around in the girls locker room too much. His girlfriend wouldn’t like it, either.
Our society is teeming with people with profound self-identity problems because normalizing psychiatric disorders through media and propaganda ultimately saves the government money that would otherwise be used to maintain mental hospitals.
It’s actually a very good article.
The headline does lend itself to implying a different meaning that the article actually addresses.
He is not supporting the position at all, but arguing the claim made by trannies.
Actually, I can’t disagree with the argument that they are.
Adam and Eve were created perfect. When sin entered the world, corruption came in, and the DNA became corrupted as well and does not always replicate perfectly, as it could
Hence, birth defects are a result of sin, although I do NOT at all in any way support the theology that it’s personal sin in a person’s life that caused it. Jesus settled that with the man born blind discourse.
“...attacking the baseless and indefensible assertion that birth defects (as well as natural calamities, etc.) are the result of sin.”
That’s a solid attack vector. You must be a Jesus follower ‘cuz he attacked the same argument the same way in Luke 13.
“Those eighteen who died when the tower of Siloam fell on them; were they greater sinners than all others who live in Jerusalem? No, I tell you! But unless you repent, you will all perish as well!”
God permits nature to be nature; sometimes the bear wins.
He permits man his free will, and the fallout thereof.
These things can, and often do, produce tragedy.
People raise an outcry against the seeming injustice of such tragedy, but Jesus comes back at them — NOT discounting the tragic element, but refocusing on “That disaster befell them doesn’t mean they were worse than anyone else,” and “All such seeming injustice aside; if you don’t repent, you’re all dead meat.”
In Jesus view — with full empathy for the dead and bereaved — it’s what we do that affects our ETERNAL condition that REALLY matters; this natural disaster, or man being evil to man stuff is just a distraction from the dominant reality, and he pointedly turns the compass needle to True North.
“Don’t waste my time. Pffft...”
Don’t act like a fool. As if you’ve never heard anybody begin a debate with the opponent’s question, before... Yeesh!
Crawl out from under your rock and go read the article; it’s a solid exercise in Christian apologetics.
Blasphemy in title. Won’t read
1. Find 2 people with 2 opposite genders than what they physically represent and
2. Swap heads
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