I think my contribution to the argument that Homosexuality isn't a Sin is my most important Internet accomplishment. While I certainly think many others could make my arguments more eloquently then I do, only I take the correct perspective on each relevant passage. And that I approach them and Scripture in general from a hyper literalist perspective means lots of people will be more open to my arguments then the arguments of more theologically liberal theologians.
I'm not quite so happy with my past attempts to allude to Trans issues on this blog. My original main post on the subject was written this month five years ago, weird coincidence since I didn't know about June being Pride Month back in 2015.
https://solascripturachristianliberty.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-refusal-to-accept-claims-of.html
Back when I wrote that I didn't yet know that not all Trans people experience Dyphoria or Dysmorphia about their bodies. And that's not the only thing I wasn't nearly as informed on as I am now. That was before the Game Over Charles crisis, before I started following a lot of the Trans and Non-Binary people in the Anime Community on YouTube and Twitter, and before I ever watched a ContraPoints video. And I'm sure I still have more to learn. But that issue is most directly relevant to why I feel that post is problematic now.
I made an argument predicated on comparing being Trans to people born with disabilities and other issues and that I believe everyone will have the body they're meant to have in The Resurrection. I know that Trans people don't want to be viewed as a mistake, it's just that in the context of those who feel deeply uncomfortable in their own bodies, that is a problem I don't view as God's intent and still one I feel will be eliminated at The Resurrection. But those who are okay with or even like having physical features Society says doesn't match their Gender Identity, their situation will probably be different, I don't want to speculate too much.
Of course another thing that has changed since I made that post is I now believe in Universal Salvation. I no longer believe it is only Trans people who become Christians that will find happiness in Jesus, Jesus Loves and will inevitably bring All of them to Salvation.
The beginning of dealing with any gender issues Biblically should always be the end of Galatians 3, "neither Male or Female" in The Church. A passage that has been relevant to many posts I've made already.
There are no New Testament verses that are even remotely about Crossdressing. Some Sermons from independent Baptist Pastors may trick you into thinking otherwise, but there are in fact none. Deuteronomy 22:5 is the only passage in the entire Bible that is even at face value relevant to that issue. Here is an article on a Jewish website dealing with the complex history of Jewish interpretations of this verse.
https://www.beki.org/dvartorah/crossdressing/
The observation that it should have lead with is how in context the passage is about doing it for the purpose of deception. It is not at all relevant to Crossdressing as self expression.
But let's return to the real question that makes the Trans issue difficult for Christians, how can they exist?
I think most Christians casually take the view on the origins of Souls that they are individually created by God either before or during the body's formation as a result of the sperm fertilizing the egg. However I have already expressed on this blog (but it was another issue I didn't know about 5 years ago) that I take the Traducian view, that our souls reproduce the same way our bodies do.
So since there are sometimes bodies born with "biological sex" ambiguities, there can also be Psyches with Psychological ambiguities and Spirits with Spiritual ambiguities. And maybe them being ambiguous is more common then the Flesh.
InspiringPhilosophy has a video on the scientific evidence that conciseness isn't solely the product of the Brain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOFGKhvWQ4M
But even if it were, studies have also shown that many Transgender people's Brains are wired like what is more typical of their preferred Gender not their assigned Gender.
But such Scientific Justification should be irrelevant because Christians aren't Materialists, not in the Aristotelian sense anyway. We don't hate and disregard the Flesh the way Gnostics or Marcionites do, or view it merely as a lesser copy of some higher form the way Platonists do, but it is still only part of what we are. But when it comes to Gender mainstream Western Christians act like Materialists. And of course "Christian" Sexual morality actually has it's roots in Plato not The Bible.
When Genesis 1 says God made Adam Male and Female, I think it's referring to all the aspects of Human Gender being there already in the first Human, or maybe it could be just referring to him having both Chromosomes. It was never meant to rule out the possibility that many of Adam's descents will relate to Gender in ways that defy or flat out don't fit into a simple Binary.
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