Have you heard the argument that someone can be born as a woman in a man's body? It's deceptive, and it appeals to principles of this world i rather than Scripture. ii
What's the Bible say about being transgender?
Trans men are men and trans women are women; they would be wearing men's and women's garments, as men and women.
This is delusion; the result of a debased mind. iv
A piece of cloth is not inherently male or female.
True, it's contextual. The context here is that of transgenderism. That is, people who (usually) dress like the opposite sex for the purpose of deceiving people.
Some people don't have only xx or xy chromosomes.
Such are exceptions and medical abnormalities. v
Most trans people aren't dressing to deceive other people, but to make themselves feel comfortable.
Do they not (usually) intend for people to believe they are a certain gender based on the way they look? A gender that is not in line with the reality of their genitals. Besides the matter of dress, most trans people are also homosexuals. A man who (wrongly) believes that he is a woman, who has sex with men, is not a straight woman; he is a homosexual man.
No. She's a woman. Trans women don't only believe they are the opposite gender; they are the opposite gender. Her brain, in the womb, developed into a female brain while her body developed into a male body.
There is no reason I can find in Scripture to believe that gender and sex relate to anything other than the penis versus the womb; no verse mentioning gendered brains versus opposite gendered bodies. It says males are circumcised, vi and women give birth. vii
Stop listening to the Bible for a moment. Open your mind to a little something called science.
No thanks. I am not opposed to science.
It is scientifically proven that being transgender is a real thing.
I don't know how such a thing can be proven, as it's a subjective thing versus an objective thing. That is, the person objectively can be seen to have a penis, and yet subjectively believes they are somehow a woman. There is no "real thing" besides the opinion here, besides the obvious real "thing." viii
Obviously the culture has changed since the ancient Hebrew culture. ix Circumcision is no longer a popular practice, and not all women are expected to give birth. But what does that have to do with gender presentation?
It was not a command that all women must give birth. It says that they will experience pain in giving birth. But the point is that woman is mentioned as being the gender that gives birth, and man is the gender mentioned as needing to get circumcised. x So unless you are suggesting that men can give birth, or that women should get circumcised...
It's brain make-up. Male and female brains are different, and trans women have been seen to have more female coded brains.
That I don't deny. The "brain make-up" is also different for addicts and insane people.
Addiction and insanity change the make-up of the brain over time, but the male and female brain thing is always there. It doesn't change.
People can be born insane, or even addicted to something. We know they are born speaking lies. xi People can be born saved, xii and nothing is impossible with God. xiii
You can be more likely to be addicted; that depends on your genes.
A baby can be born addicted to a substance that the mother has taken. A baby can be born with any number of things wrong with its mind. That someone is born a certain way is not to say they don't have something wrong with them. And it is God who causes us to be born the way we are born; He even creates us as destined to hell or destined for glory! xiv
- Colossians 2:
8 Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ.
- Proverbs 3:
5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart,
And lean not on your own understanding; - Deuteronomy 22:
5 “A woman shall not wear anything that pertains to a man, nor shall a man put on a woman’s garment, for all who do so are an abomination to the Lord your God.
1 Corinthians 6:
9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
Bold added. ^
- Romans 1:
28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
- not normal ^
- Genesis 17:
10 This is My covenant which you shall keep, between Me and you and your descendants after you: Every male child among you shall be circumcised;
- Genesis 3:
16 To the woman He said:
“I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception;
In pain you shall bring forth children;
Your desire shall be for your husband,
And he shall rule over you.” - penis ^
- How can this be known? ^
- under the law, which we are no longer under ^
- Psalm 58:
3 The wicked are estranged from the womb;
They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies. - Luke 1:
13 But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zacharias, for your prayer is heard; and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John. 14 And you will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth. 15 For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink. He will also be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.
- Luke 1:
37 For with God nothing will be impossible.”
- Romans 9:
22 What if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, 23 and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had prepared beforehand for glory,
as long as you have hatred to yourself you will engage in judgement of others and be beyond God's grace.
It's not wrong to hate, and it's not wrong to judge. Make sure you are in God's grace.
Is being gay a sin, and should i beat it out of my son? I am lost, Father.
Yes, homosexuality is evil. First fear God, and then you will know how to deal with your son. And I am not your father.
Wouldn't the fact that according to brain scans, transgender people have brains that line up more with the gender they identify with rather than the one that matches their bodies show that they are the gender they say they are?
What would be the issue with a transition if the person literally already has the brain of what they are transitioning to and are basically just getting their body to match what is already there?
I can't tell the difference between a homosexual male and a transgender "female." I can't tell the difference between this and insanity. And that's because there is no difference. God creates us male and female, and even this fact we rebel against in our hatred of our Creators.
It sounds like you haven't met many transexuals, your view on them is not realistic.
I don't need to meet them to know they do what God calls evil.