Posted on 06/12/2017 8:11:25 AM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
AUSTIN, Texas A female minister in Texas who identifies as male recently declared at the state capitol that God is transgender in expressing her opposition to a proposed bill that requires those using restrooms and locker rooms in government buildings and public schools to use the facility that corresponds with the gender on their birth certificate. Seth Wynn, who leads Agape Metropolitan Community Church in Fort Worth, began her speech refuting another pastor who had cited the Book of Genesis in expressing support for the legislation.
Neither G-d or nature “made a mistake”.
Gene’s are not something where one set designs the body and another the brain - every human cell as the same genetic material given by the human’s two parents.
The body is not made male or female and then the brain made something else.
Transgenderism is a dysphoria regarding the very identity an individual actually has, where for a possible number of mental errors in thinking, which left uncorrected, result in a fixed obsession where the actual identity that one has is rejected. Simply, it is rejecting ones own identity. There is nothing “natural” about that rejection.
Keep in mind who these people are. They approve and laugh along with the “hunky jesus contest” staged by sodomites openly mocking Jesus Christ and his crucifixion every Easter in San Fransicko. They approve and feature in their street fairs sexual toys shaped like crucifixes. They sue churches to force them to violate their doctrine. They create out of whole cloth their own perverted version of the Bible in a “Queen James Version” based on nothing but their desires.
That’s who these people are.
That slogan has attracted the same weird misfits to Austin that sullied life in San Francisco. Whoever came up with it should be jailed.
LMAO!! That was a joke? Right?
I gotta say, Mohammed read the OT and the NT and came up with an organization for himself that reflected himself.
It is nothing but idolatry when we form the God of the Bible into something He isn’t. The leftists have documented a God that serves their interests. Man’s interests are really the root of the whole sin issue.
I think as a purely philosophical question God could have whatever opinions or values He chose to have, I mean, who’s going to change His mind?
Our discernment wisdom should be at least approximately up to the challenge of figuring out which proposed values or opinions the actual living God would most likely have.
Personally, I don’t think that creating us in His own image somehow requires that we conceive of a God with both male and female characteristics. It may just be that God is essentially a supernatural version of the male homo sapiens and that He created men and women. Probably “in His image” has more to do with our human spirituality than our outward appearance or biological functioning.
As for God being transgendered, while not ruled out by the basic philosophy outlined, I see no evidence for it or reason for it to be a preferred outcome. Did this happen since 33 A.D., because Jesus speaks of his Father in heaven and didn’t add on “but he’s a cross-dresser” or any other such clues. And Jesus as described in the Gospels seems unambiguously male, unlike some other gods of other religions.
I can’t relate to the transgender paradigm but I don’t think anyone should be actively trying to cause harm to such persons, the only place it really has any relevance in most of our lives is in bathroom design and usage policies in public places and that needs to be sorted out on a logical basis. My rule would be, own a penis, use the M washroom, otherwise use the W washroom. By own a penis, I mean of course having one attached permanently.
The first thing to catch my eye was: FEMALE minister.
I believe that only men can be “ministers”. Women get to create life, we are beloved.
as they say, just because you sit in a chicken coop, that doesn’t mean you are a chicken.
Rabbi, Priest should be men.
The Almighty is Curious and Questioning.
But not just about one thing.
God created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve.
Anything to get as far away from Austin as quickly as possible.
We walked by just as he was commenting that "he HAD the RIGHT interpretation of the LORD. Don't LISTEN to the RADIO. Don't WATCH your TV. LISTEN to ME, because I KNOW the TRUTH...." and so on, take that and run with it....
After we were out of earshot, WBill Jr asked, "So... how does he know that he's right and everyone else is wrong? What about our church? I like our pastor."
A fair question, out of the mouths of babes, and it led to a nice long discussion about needing to make decisions for yourself, one day.
Did he/she/it ever hear of the fate of those who slander God or of false prophets?
quote-The Bible says that we are all made in His image.
This includes men and women. Logically therefore
God must possess characteristics of both male and female.
Buckeye, it’s written in 1 Corinthians 11:7 ,For a man ought not to have his head covered, since he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of man.
man is the image and glory of God.
woman is the glory of man.
And it is stated that way for a reason. and all this ‘transgenderism’ confusion is a testimony that the curses handed out in the garden of eden, still happen today.
If you are going to cite Genesis, you should also cite the relevant verses from Romans 1 since this is really an argument about the sophistry of the sexually corrupt.
Metropolitan churches are not Christian churches, My understanding is that they will quote just as readily from any other religion’s sacred text (or any source) that supports the message they are promoting at the moment.
If you believe in everything, you believe in nothing.
From the gospel of homosexuality.
All will kneel trembling before her, or else.
“God definition of Himself is: “I am HE who is!’’. The Devils definition of himself is “I am he who is not’’.- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen.
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