The Bible and Transgenderism
In response to the mass confusion about gender today (Bruce Caitlyn Jenner; Target; the Obama Administration), this past Sunday my sermon was on "The Bible and Transgenderism." The following are four Biblical ideas about sex (gender). I encourage pastors to boldly proclaim these truths to their churches, and parents to teach the truth about gender clearly to their children. You can listen to the full sermon HERE.
- One's sex is created by God, not self-determined. See Genesis 1:27. When God made you, He didn't merely create you as a human being, but as a male or a female. From the moment of your conception, you were either a boy or a girl. You don't get to choose your sex; God chose it for you.
- There are only two sexes -- male and female. See Genesis 1:27. Facebook may offer 58 gender identity options for its users to choose from, but in reality there are only two: Male and female. Gender is not a spectrum, it is binary.
- One's sex is fixed, not fluid. Jesus and the disciples performed many miracles, but they never performed a miracle sex-change. If the Bible forbids cross-dressing, surely it forbids changing one's sex (see Deuteronomy 22:5). Medically it is impossible to change one's sex. Surgery and hormones can only change one's appearance, not gender.
- Sex is manifested in biology, not feelings. In the Bible, sex always coincides with biology. A person's sex/gender could be determined from the moment they were born by looking at their anatomy (see Genesis 4:1). One's sex is made clear through biology, not feelings or psychology.
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