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Hi, I'm Dave DeWitt, and today I'd like to talk about the Bible and transgenderism.
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Ray Schuyler, a first-grade teacher at the Brooke Roslindale School, a charter school
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in Boston, told four- and five-year-olds, she, now he, transgender, told them, quote,
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The way I like to describe it is like wearing a super itchy sweater.
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The longer you wear it, the itchier it gets, and the only way to make it stop is to let
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people know the person you really are.
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It was like a huge weight was lifted off my shoulder, and I had the freedom to be who
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I truly am, close quote.
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The Bible does not directly discuss transgenderism, nor does any ancient text I'm aware of.
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But the Bible has a lot to say about human sexuality and gender identity, which can be
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directly applied to the modern concept of transgenderism.
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According to the New Oxford American Dictionary, transgender is an, quote, adjective denoting
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or relating to a person whose sense of personal identity and gender does not correspond with
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their birth sex, close quote.
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There are currently 1.6 million adults 18 and older and youth 13 to 17 identifying as
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transgender in the United States, or 0.6% of those ages 13 and older.
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Data also shows that 82% of transgender individuals have considered killing themselves, 40% have
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attempted suicide.
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Let's look at what the Bible says.
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Genesis 1, 26 and 27.
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Then God said, let us make man in our image according to our likeness.
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God created man in his own image.
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In the image of God, he created them.
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Male and female, he created them.
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Then in Matthew 19, 45, we have recorded the words of Jesus.
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Jesus answered and said, have you not read that he who created them from the beginning
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made them male and female and said, for this reason a man shall leave his father and his
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mother and be joined to his wife and the two shall become one flesh.
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Notice Moses, who wrote Genesis, told us that humans were created in two distinct sexes.
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Sexual identity is part of our physical makeup.
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Typical biological male individuals have an X and a Y chromosome.
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Those who are biologically female have two X chromosomes.
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God created us male and female, not just externally, but down to our DNA genetic code internally.
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Also, it's common for some intellectually challenged speakers to say something like
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Jesus had nothing to say about homosexuality or transgenderism.
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Actually, the most decisive point made in the Bible against sexual deviation, such as
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homosexuality and transgenderism, comes from Jesus.
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Jesus went back to creation for identification.
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He said he who has created them from the beginning made them male and female.
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Jesus did not go to any deviations that might have been introduced by the fall or ancient
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cultures or other genetic anomalies.
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He went back to the beginning, which can only equate gender preference with sexual identity.
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Jesus' statement slams the door shut on the acceptability of any sexual perversion
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from the biological male or female identification established at birth.
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Consider the predetermination of our sexual identity.
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Isaiah 44, 2,
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Thus says the Lord who made you and formed you from the womb.
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Jeremiah 1, 5,
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Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you.
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Psalm 139, 13 to 16,
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For you formed my inward parts, you wove me in my mother's womb.
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Your eyes have seen my unformed substance, and in your book they were all written, the
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days that were ordained for me, when as yet there were none of them.
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Notice, number one, it's clearly not the intention of the biblical author to separate our social
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or psychological gender preference from our biological sexual identity, which has been
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predetermined by God and formed in the womb.
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And to disagree with God is always a bad idea.
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And number two, whether the transgender person believes in evolution or not, the foundation
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of transgenderism is evolution.
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The whole idea of transgenderism is based on the progressive evolution religion, which
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does not consider the existence of sin or that a sovereign God predetermined our sexual
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identity.
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Consider the example I began with.
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The girl who became a boy who became a man, transgender, first grade teacher, does not
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consider the possibility that his itchy sweater is a tendency to sin.
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For example, suppose I was born with a tendency toward sinful perversion, like say alcoholism
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or gluttony or pedophilia or kleptomania.
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Not being able to get drunk, eat to obesity, view child pornography or steal things would
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seem like, as the transgender teacher put it, wearing an itchy sweater.
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The itchiness would be relieved when I committed the sin, especially if society would accept
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me for who I am rather than bullying me.
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But the transgender teacher I quoted does not consider his itchiness to be sin.
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He acts as if he just evolved into being who he is.
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Now let's see what the Bible says about male and female identity.
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The Bible is clear that a man and a woman are to be outwardly, obviously, and observably
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distinct.
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Men and women never do anything that would confuse sexual identity of the way they were
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born.
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Deuteronomy 22, verse 5, a woman shall not wear a man's clothing, nor a man shall put
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on a woman's clothing, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord your
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God.
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1 Corinthians 11, 14, and 15, does not even nature itself teach you that if a man has
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long hair, it's a dishonor to him, but if a woman has long hair, it's a glory to her,
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for her hair is given to her as a covering.
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First Timothy 2.9, likewise, I want women to adorn themselves with proper clothing modestly
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and discreetly, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly garments.
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Notice one, cross-dressing was strictly forbidden by the Mosaic law.
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It was an abomination to the Lord your God.
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The basic point is that men and women should never separate their gender preference from
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their biological sexual orientation.
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The basis of hair length argument is that men and women should be easily identifiable
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by hair length alone.
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To violate this was to go against what nature itself teaches you, which includes the idea
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of having a gender preference that appears to be different from our biological sexual
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preference.
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3.
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Women's clothing and jewelry were to be proper in the sense that they best adorned the woman.
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Appropriate clothing was proper when it made the woman look like a woman.
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The basic instruction is that women should have a gender preference which adorns their
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sexual identity.
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First Timothy 2.9 is in the New Testament version of Deuteronomy 22.5.
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Here's some Christian arguments made in support of transgenderism along with my answers.
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Number one, progressive Christians claim we should not just quote the Bible and ignore
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science.
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My answer, science today is not the scientific method but a tool or a trick of progressives
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where facts are warped to fit the agenda.
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But even if the scientific method could trace deviant tendencies to the genetic condition
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of one's birth, it does not mean those tendencies are good.
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The Bible, not scientifically declared biological tendencies, determines what's right and wrong.
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Remember I'm intentionally repeating this again.
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Jesus went back to creation in the Garden of Eden to describe male and female.
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Second progressive Christians claim we're living in a fallen cursed world where we're
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born with a sin nature which could include transgender tendencies that require love and
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compassion, not criticism and condemnation.
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My answer, there are birth defects that can orient us toward sin, but sin must be confessed
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and defects need to be treated, repaired, altered, or cured, not tolerated, normalized,
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or encouraged.
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Children who are thinking about changing their gender identity should be guided by parents
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away from the perverted, sinful, destructive, foolish behavior.
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Isaiah 520, woe to those who are called good evil and evil good.
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Proverbs 27.5, better is open rebuke than love that is concealed.
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Proverbs 529, Peter and the apostles answered, we must obey God rather than men.
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Ephesians 415, speaking the truth in love.
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First Thessalonians 521 and 22, hold fast to that which is good, abstain from every
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form of evil.
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We're all sinners, Romans 3.23, continually Romans 7.18-25, who need to confess our sins
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regularly in 1 John 1.89.
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We should always forgive people who repent, but we should not encourage their sin by accepting
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it as normal.
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First John 2.15-17, do not love the world or the things of the world.
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If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
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For all that's in the world, the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, the
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pride of life, is not from the Father, but it's from the world, and the world's passing
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away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.
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Progressive Christians also claim Deuteronomy 22.5 was part of the Mosaic Law, and Christ
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ended the law.
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My answer, as a reminder, the passage says in Deuteronomy 22.5, a woman shall not wear
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a man's clothing, nor shall a man put on a woman's clothing, for whoever does these
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things is an abomination to the Lord your God.
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This passage is devastating to the transgender position.
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Their explanation ignores the basic principle of interpretation and applying anything.
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We do not keep the Mosaic Law, we apply the Mosaic Law.
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Interpretation is about what is in the mind of the human author.
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Application is about what's in the mind of God, and God says cross-dressing is an abomination.
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So what do you think God thinks about transgenderism?
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Progressive Christians claim Genesis 2 tells us Adam was created a non-gendered human.
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My answer, this point is so silly it's hard to believe they mention it.
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It shows how desperate they are to find justification for the perversion.
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Adam was a male who needed a female helpmate.
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In Genesis 2.18, the Lord said it's not good for the man to be alone, I'll make a helper
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suitable for him.
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Progressive Christians claim transgender people have existed across the cultures of time,
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dating back thousands of years.
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My answer, really?
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How many transgender people did your grandfather know?
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How about your father?
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How many transgenders were there in your father's secondary or junior high school?
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The idea that they were all staying in the closet for fear of social persecution is a
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card they throw at every progressive perversion.
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The problem with the argument is they are accepted, even promoted by society today.
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Conclusion Sexual perversions today are on hyperdrive.
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In the Western world before the turn of the century, biblical morality was more or less
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seen as a positive thing by the general society.
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For example, I would say since the founding of America until about the year 2000, biblical
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morality was pretty much the same as that of the general secular society.
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When I went to school in the 1960s, the morality of the Bible was generally the morality assumed
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in the classroom.
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Today that same morality is being attacked in the classroom.
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Many will say there have been people with LGBTQ and so on tendencies all through history,
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maybe, but they were never promoted as normal, natural, and accepted for the general society.
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Today you're some sort of phobic if you do not promote the perversion.
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Deviation from male-female identity was consistently condemned in the Bible.
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In the Old Testament, the Canaanites and later the Israelites were removed from the land
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because of their idolatry and their sexual perversion.
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The apostles also emphasized the condemnation of sexual sins.
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Paul said, take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead even expose them.
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But the greatest and most clear condemnation of all deviation from male-female identity
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comes from Jesus.
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In one statement, Jesus eliminated all LGBTQ-type possibilities.
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Jesus went back to the beginning, back to the creation of the Garden of Eden to define
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sexual identity and sexual preference.
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As a conclusion, I'll read it again, Matthew 19, 4 and 5.
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Jesus said, have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them
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male and female?
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And said, for this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother and be joined to
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his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.
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Thank you for listening.
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A longer paper on the subject with footnotes for the quotes is available on our website
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relationalconcepts.org.
