Many Christians oppose transgenderism because they're "saying that God is wrong".
First of all, that is not a scientifically tenable position: "God made him [or her] that way."
As Politically Incorrect as it is to say this,
it's not unreasonable to hypothesize Gender Identity Disorder has some psychological relatedness (like alcoholism to heroin addiction to meth addictions), to Body Integrity Identity Disorder or BIIDs.
Woman Wants To Be Permanently Paralysed: Body Integrity Identity Disorder
I Made Myself Blind: Living With BIID
Living With BIID: I Want To Cut Off My Leg
My personal view is God makes no one. Per se. The Theory of Evolution could be wrong. It could be. But as of now I accept it and it provides plenty of "explanatory power" as philosophers would say. That does not mean I believe in every prevailing hypothesis or explanation in the Theory. But at any rate... I believe in God, Christ, and Madonna, and my current view (it could alter over time) is that God is
First Cause as theologians say, and that through the masterful art work of the universe and biological evolution, human choices in who they will mate with, he allows the creation of
us to unfold without his dictatorial hand.
Of course, my view point encounters problems when it comes to the issue of "destiny," if one subscribes to the belief
some or
all people were destined for x, y, or z thing. But this dilemma has existed in Christianity since its beginning and to this day remains one of the mysteries within Christianity: how can free will exist when Joan of Arc et al. were presumably destined to fulfill the rolls they did.
But I'm fine with
mysteries. The Orthodox accept that easier than Catholics and Protestant whom are products of the
rational West, which gave forth science, so they like to have an answer for everything. I think Thomas Aquinas even tried to philosophically work out, by use of logic,
the purpose of music. :lol:
But is transgenderism really unbiblical?
That would seem to be the proper interpretation. You know, the Bible is not written in the literature style of a modern day instruction manual, and so the theological business of interpretation is more difficult then that. But Catholicism and Orthodoxy draw upon a mountain of teaching outside of the Bible. First is the oral tradition and second is the mountains of literature composed by saints and
Doctors of the Church (a few of whom are female--its a title bestowed saying x person shaped the spiritual dynamics and understanding of the whole Church). The prayers of the Church dating back centuries and to the earliest days of the Church also function as a teaching tool. Because the Church has a saying "it believes what it prays."
Anyways, the Bible suggests that men that dress like women will not inherit the Kingdom of Heaven.
One must bear in mind certain terms and
concepts we have today (particularly in English) did not exist among ancient Jews (or ancient people) or Early Christians. The
conceptualization of homosexuality, as a specific type difference, did not exist among ancient Jews or Early Christians even. They viewed two men sexually active with each other as a behavior springing forth from "passions." The term passions can be translated different ways including what ancient people would have thought of as addiction or obsession. But they conceptualized these people as the same type as people we call heterosexual, but merely by way of passions caught in their same-sex sins.
Likewise with the concept of transsexuals or this
non-binary people that demand they are neither a he or a she but a "they" in one body.
