An Answer about Transgenderism Vs. Hermaphroditism
Did I falsely claim that being transgender is a sin? It was no falsehood. You can see that it's different from being biologically hermaphroditic, and that really isn't a sin, obviously, but it's the way God allowed genetic decay, which is due to Adam's sin to form that hermaphrodite; perhaps it would not be sinful for a hermaphrodite to pick a sex. Hermaphroditic formation in the womb is not the topic here. Effeminacy is. I gave you a verse that says that's a sin. Attempt to change it at your peril of being against God, but allow Him to change your hard heart to hear what others are really saying, because your bitterness is hard, and it misleads your perceptions. Re-read what I did write, when I explained the difference between what you keep putting together, and read that Bible verse for yourself (when you find it) and its context. Don't teach others to accept perversion just so your flesh can *seem* to be acceptable. It is true love that I tell you this. Take it as such, slowly, mentally and methodically, I plead with you for you. But your salvation doctrine is even worse than your combination of natural and unnatural that your mind blends into one as it jumps over the reality to your programmed image that the World has pushed on the Church very much concerning the fleshly choice of transgenderism.
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Scripture - the Holy Bible - *is* God's Word, just as Jesus Christ is God's Word -- by Him and by that book (holy means it has been set apart for a specific purpose, to declare God's words to us), we know God's will. If you say that you have a different word, then your will is in opposition to His. This is not the same as your will being in opposition to the will of a preacher, but if God's Word is clear - as it often is - and direct, then what basis does anyone have to change His clear instruction? Every word of the original manuscripts (and God has preserved it through translations remarkably intact) is from our Creator, written by the conscious will of people who follow Him in a miraculous convergence of God's will and the thoughts of the writers. The Bible is self-consistent in all its details, even though it was written by dozens of authors over thousands of years, and it proves its divine origin by prophecy, one of the iron-clad of which is the timing of Christ's death, laid out precisely to the year in the book of Daniel, chapter 9. If it wasn't God's Word, we wouldn't take it so seriously, but God has communicated to all humanity, and part of His communication to us is that effeminacy is against His will. The differences between men and women - not what evil humanity has made of those differences, but the actual differences and fitted togetherness that God has designed - are His will. Will you attempt to change it? I won't. John MacArthur surely won't, because we know the severity as well as the goodness of the perfectly good and the perfectly powerful God, Who has spoken to us gently, lovingly and straightly His knowledge of how deliriously sinful humanity should behave for our own good as He perfectly sees it; our very perceptions are tainted. Trust Him!
Believing Master Jesus died as a blood sacrifice to atone for our sins in front of the Holy God in accordance with the Scriptures, and that He was buried, that God raised Him from the dead on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures and that He was seen afterward by Peter, the Disciples, then by over 500 brothers at one time (most of whom were still alive when Paul wrote this formulation of the gospel that he also was given to the Corinthian church, though some had died at that time), and then Jesus was seen after His Resurrection by James, and the apostles at large, and finally by Paul, and believing these things, if you call on the name of the Master, verbally confessing Master Jesus, then you will be saved! 1 Corinthians 15:1-8 and Romans 10:9, 10, 13