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It defined transsexualism as " [a] desire to live and be accepted as a member of the opposite sex, usually accompanied by a sense of discomfort with, or inappropriateness of, one's anatomic sex, and a wish to have surgery and hormonal treatment to make one's body as congruent as possible with Transsexual - Wikipedia
Thanks for asking.
Even biology that has the binary male/female has defects and inconsistencies. It's not common, but it is reality. American Christians have a history of thinking in black and white absolutes, and these don't work with what we observe of nature. It's not just biology that has exceptions, but human psychology is not absolute. Many conservatives Christians show contempt for sciences and expecially psychology. The sciences advance as more evidence and data is collected, and how a small portion of humans experience themselves does not fit their biology. Is it right or wrong? Science isn't to judge. The social sciences examine behaviors and classify attitudes and behaviors that cause harm in categories that are negative. Being gay used to be thought of as a form of mental illness but as science has examined gay people that is no longer the case. Trans people seem to be in a similar category where no one is harmed. The only harm that is being observed these days is conservative politics that vilify these people and those who care for them. The motivation for conservative politics is more black and white Christian thinking.
Conservatives are using law to harm classes of citizens, whether climinalizing trans people or restricting reproductive care.
I would include anyone who argues for a position that is incomplete and uses disinformation.
It's the principle that is outlined in more than one example.
I'm not sure how "praise" got into the subject. But, yes, God doesn't need our worship and praise. I don't give it because He needs it or because I "have" to give it. I give it because of love and out of thankfulness that He saved me from a divorce.
Too bad it doesn't work for others without your set of baises.I found it quite reliable.
Many Christians demonstrate this through history.
I would think believers would take this more seriously than they do.And it isn't sin or the lack thereof that saves either as neither are the good works or a good moral behavior either, IMU.
BUT YOU ARE RIGHT! Jesus was executed and sacrificed for the sins of mankind! It isn't the "sins" that condemn us but rather the one sin as Jesus outlined in John 16:8-11 and John 3:16-17.
If you hit the link to your statement... just "why" do you come to that point.
There is no grace in the message of Jesus?
Locate a mirror, see the plank in your eye. Can't see it? The plank must be in the way. That's an excuse to not reflect and be open to change.
Like the Trinity.
This is something you have wrong. There's nothing I can determine to be any God. This could be a form of theological bullying, as if you can state your personal belief as if it is factual and appliable to me. That's bad manners, and a rule violation.
That's bad news for churches.
No, that only scrapes the surface. The brains of the transgender are physically different then those of cis people and tend to match those of the opposite sex:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
True, true.
The point was that that verse in no way says or implies that the Bible is literally true. If it is "useful . People make the error of concentrating on only the first half of that verse and put their own interpretation on it. They ignore the last half when they try to claim it supports a literal interpretation of the Bible:
OK...
Thanks for taking time to answer. And, technically, you have points that are right.
Thank you. Do you also see that Romans 3 4 was a very bad verse to use. by my opponent? Especially since he had to quote mine it? Personally I think that quote mining the Bible is wrong no matter which side does it. In fact quote mining in general is almost always used as a form of lying. He may have been merely quoting Liars for Jesus (aka apologists) in his use of that verse. The verse was actually about circumcision and how some Jews not following the law does not negate that God is keeping his promise to the Jews. In fact the part that is often abused essentially says that even if every Jew did not follow the law that God would still keep his promises. That was not an excuse not to circumcise, but a recognition that God's connection to the Jews was deeper than just that.OK...
I called "gender dysphoria" a "mental problem/disorder", not a "disease". If it were a disease, your Pharma could be making a huge profit in supposedly curing it, whereas they probably helped initiated it through chemicals they produced that are found in the food chain, much like frogs with too many legs, or too many heads. And yes, chemicals affect the brain, just as stomach flora, produced by poor nutrition affects the brain as well. One of the cures was for people too incorporate the waste taken from healthy people. You might consider going down that road.No, that only scrapes the surface. The brains of the transgender are physically different then those of cis people and tend to match those of the opposite sex:
"Some (or perhaps all) of the aforementioned variables may have contributed to neuroanatomical variations in transgender brains, as repeatedly observed in both post mortem and in vivo studies published over the past three decades [10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28]."
Brain Sex in Transgender Women Is Shifted towards Gender Identity
Transgender people report discomfort with their birth sex and a strong identification with the opposite sex. The current study was designed to shed further light on the question of whether the brains of transgender people resemble their birth sex or their ...
And are you a mental health expert? Calling gender dysphoria a disease may not be merited. Is that different from you and I, yes. Does that make it a disease? I am not so sure about that. Calling it a disease puts another burden of proof on you, one that neither you nor I are qualified to judge.
The "world might be saved", if indeed they heeded his message (Mt 7:24-27), but in fact, the "many" chose the "wide""way" to "destruction". The "grace" of God, is that he chose the "elect" from the foundation of the world, and even they could be "deceived""if possible" (Mt 24:24).
Well, people are born without arms and legs, and while an exception, it is not normal, and probably has underlying causes, such as consumption of certain medications produced by Big Pharma. The same is probably with respect to the trans movement to a certain extent. As for "science", it changes every hour and every day. That includes hard science as well as your mushy liberal arts science, which is having to rethink because the new data doesn't confirm their prejudices, which apparently you didn't get the memo. It is the trans who have been committing suicide, whether they are taken serious or not. That is a problem for the trans whether the "conservatives" knew of their existence or not, and for the most part, until recently, the trans were not on the radar of anyone but the trans.
I think cutting off body parts of children is "radical". Except for the "radical" elements of society, such as the Progressives now in the Administration, cutting off body parts of children is radical, whether I point out the "body parts" being cut off, and being "incomplete" or not.
Religious faith is an imaginary car that you pretend gets you to your destination.Oh, it does work! A car works but you just can't put any key to the ignition and then say "it doesn't work without your set of biases"
Sometime getting the manual and understanding "how" it works, helps.
Misleading statement.