A Timely Word 5-20 - What I Really Wish You, My LGBTQ+ Friends & Neighbors, Will Hear from Me
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- If you embrace an LGBTQ+ worldview, then this message is for you. There is too much assuming, blaming, and yelling going on about human sexuality. Let's clear up a few misunderstandings between us, and have a heart-felt and respectful dialogue.
Bible passages referenced: Luke 10:25-28; Matthew 5:43-45; Romans 3:10-11, 23; Ephesians 2:1-3; Genesis 1:27-28; Genesis 2:24-25; Matthew 19:4-6, 8; and Ephesians 34:8.
“A man has joy in an apt answer, And how delightful is a timely word!” (Proverbs 15:23, NASB)
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I have read the bible, I used to be a chaplain for my local VFW chapter, and I've studied apologetics. I watched your video all the way through.
I'm also intersex and a trans woman, (in that doctors told me I was male, and now I take estrogen and live as a woman)
I want to be clear that no one convinced me to be the way I am, I'm not the result of progressive ideology. I was born this way. My body is stuck somewhere in the middle, and taking hormones makes me feel much better and live a healthier more fulfilled life. Not everyone is like me, but for me, taking hormones is like wearing glasses, correcting a part of my body that doesn't work as well as it should.
Christians regularly tell me I am wrong for this, but I wouldn't look like a man or a woman either way. And I got kicked out of an excommunicated from my church before I ever decided I was trans, simply because of how god made my body. God made me this way, so I'm part of god's design, and you're the one who needs to broaden your understanding of what that means. I'll still be here either way, and so will others like me.
I don't fit in any box, and I was born this way. To me, that means the box must be wrong or incomplete. God's design should include everyone within it, so it must be our understanding of that design that's wrong. Intersex people aren't going to go away, we've always been here. And Christians aren't compassionate to us, they take all their frustration over the line being pushed and target us with it for the crime of being born. Even if you think your reasoning for that frustration is just, is it just to target us who have no choice?
the English were making the exact same statements reactionaries make today about it being "progressive and new ideology", trying to regulate gender with things like the criminal tribes act of 1871 in colonial india (where third gender groups like the hijra were relabeled as eunuchs and habitual criminals)
yet 1871 was long before the internet, tiktok, hollywood, and other avenues the lesser educated claim are the influences for behavior observed worldwide in humans. anthropological and historical records of non-binary gender, and non-alignment to sexual anatomy, goes back centuries to antiquity
in the end, human interact with gender in various ways according to their cultural context, and it is used as a form of communication similar to written or spoken language. it affects their self-governed behavior and expression, as well as the perception others have of them. it has evolved far beyond simple categories based in dichotomized reproductive categories or sexual dimorphism, as humans are a lot more creative than what their biology manifests as
You also repeatedly say that LGBTQIA identification is a lifestyle choice. It's not. No one chooses to be gay or trans. It is merely a recognization of a truth about yourself. I'm sorry that objective reality scares you, and that you can't fit your mind around doing good to other people without fear of consequences if you don't. I'm not polite to other people because I think that if I'm not I'm going to burn in hell for all eternity. I'm polite to other people because my wife in general is better when I am.
It's not just that no one chooses to be gay or trans. We typically go through a stage where we fight desperately against it. And fail. We are the way we are because we have no choice. So let me ask you as a clergyman. Can there be sin where there is no choice?
"But I say, anyone who even looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart. So if your eye-even your good eye-causes you to lust, gouge it out and throw it away."
I have never committed adultery in the physical sense, but have in the above sense ten thousand times. Should I gouge my eye out? You seem to be a nice man, so I presume you would say no. But why would you say no? The instructions are very clear and even specific ('even your good eye', which, btw, resonates with me as one of my eyes is much weaker than the other). I'm awaiting your instructions.
This is a wonderful question! I can't do an answer complete justice in a short comment, but I'll sketch out a response now, and maybe I'll make a full video answer soon. We get into problems when we read the Bible as though every statement must be taken literally always-only-forever-amen! We also get into problems when we read the Bible and just interpret each little part how we feel like it means "to me". What we really need to do is to discern if there are any parts that are intended to be read figuratively, rather than literally. That means we need to always consider the context.
What is Jesus talking about in this whole passage? In vv. 17-20, Jesus reaffirms the law and the prophets (what we call the Old Testament). He did not come to nullify the OT, but to fulfill it. Then he says something very important in Matt. 5:20: "For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven." That was a radical statement! Because the Pharisees did their best to follow the OT law very precisely. And then Jesus goes through a litany of sins and makes a similar point, time after time: It's not just murder that is sin, it is anger in your heart. It's not just adultery that is sin, it is lust in your heart... In other words, you cannot just stop outward sinful behavior and think that you are doing a great job at being righteous. Sin always is a matter of the heart. We desire sinful desires, and that ends up leading us to outward sinful behaviors.
So when he's talking about adultery, he's saying something like this: If it's only the outward behavior that matters to God, and if the sight of a beautiful woman causes you to lust in your heart after her, and tempts you to act out on that lust, then it would be better for you to cut your eye out so you never see her beauty and be tempted by it in the first place.
In the conclusion of this message, Jesus says (Matt. 5:48): "You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect." He's not telling us that the WAY we get to being right with God is by trying real hard to be perfect. He's telling us that it is impossible for us to be right with God on our own because none of us can be perfect! The rest of the Gospel is... Christ alone lived a perfect life. And he chose to die in our place and take our guilt on himself, and he gave us his perfect righteousness as a gift.
I hope that at least starts to answer your question...
gender is a social construct
Gender identity by my mom because she took des for miscarriage and gave me female hormones in her womb, got it ..thanks I am half and half 🌗 love 😍 being a female
The Olympics didn't mock Christianity, it was a depiction of Dionysus... Do better!!!
If you were listening I said the "apparent" mocking of Christianity. You can go back and watch the previous video "A Timely Word 5-19 - I’m Not Offended By the Olympics Ceremony (at least not how you might think…)", and you will find that I actually talked about the link to Dionysus.