Let's set the record
straight. To be Christian is to follow the leading of The Christ.
Politics is about worldly concerns and worldly ways. Jesus didn't
have a political agenda. People who follow Him do not have a
political agenda. People who follow Jesus are about the kingdom of
God and saving souls.
So, when men of God lead
His people to use the government and courts to further their idea of
His agenda, they are wrong. Jesus said this, “This people draws
near to me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.
Teaching the precepts of men as if they are the commands of God”.
Nowhere has this been more
obvious than with the war against homosexuals and the latest downward
turn of Christianity, the hubris and idolatry of declaring
transsexual as sin, and the surgeries to correct it. This elevates
men into the place and position that only God holds.
It was said to me by one of
the staunch supporters of this new movement against transsexuals,
that he didn't believe God makes mistakes. Neither do I. I think God
has very clear intent in what He does.
IF you look into the
resolution that was passed by the Southern Baptist Convention and
most of the state associations, you will see resolutions against
corrective surgeries based in the idea that God doesn't make
mistakes. Interestingly enough, we don't see any resolutions being
passed against surgical repair of a cleft pallet, or a misshapen arm,
or a congenital heart defect. We don't even have resolutions against
surgeries to augment breast size or change a person's appearance. So,
evidently, God either didn't make a mistake in forming these
different people in the womb, which I believe, or He did make a
mistake and that makes it OK to fix the mistake.
Since I do not believe God
makes mistakes, but He has given us the knowledge and ability to
correct things that seem wrong to us, it makes no sense to argue that
transsexuals shouldn't get a corrective surgery for a medical issue
that can be corrected.
Now, in that same
resolution it states that transsexual is a result of the fallenness
of the world and is not in keeping with the original design and
intent of the creation. So is every disease and malformation of every
person mentioned in the above examples. So, since we know this is not
in line with the original intent of our maker, it would make sense to
do the surgeries that would correct that.
Further more, the idea that
God made them man and woman is the foundation of the argument against
transsexual. I do not know of any transsexual who relates to being
more than male or female. I do know people who relate to being
eunuchs. Which would be different altogether.
There are any Christians
who feel that we are a soul trapped in a flesh and blood body. There
are some who feel we are a person with a soul. IF we are a person
with a soul, then it is possible that we get our gender from our
biology. If, on the other hand, we are a soul in a body, then does
our gender identity come from our soul or our body?
My final point is this; If
God decides to do something new, and He hasn't addressed it in His
word, then do we really have the position to determine it to be sin?
Suppose God simply decided to do something to test whether His people
would stay in their appointed place and pray about it and leave it in
His hands, or would step out in humanism and hubris and declare what
God has chosen to do is sin. Whether this was His intent is
irrelevant. Because, in the end, His people have stepped out in sin
and declared something to be sin that God never did.
All God ever asked of His
people is to go into the world and tell the good news of the gospel.
He never asked us to try to control the world He is in control of and
He never asked us to try to control the actions of those around us.
If we stay true to what He has asked us to do, He will stay true to
His nature and reward that.
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