Will god ever honor transgender

On Sunday afternoon, I was sitting in front of a cafe in downtown Washington, sipping coffee under a sliver of roof on a wet day, minding my own business, when three people who were clearly tourists walked up and gestured for me to take out my headphones. I asked them why they wanted to pray for me, and the same person answered that they felt called by God to walk around the streets of D. I sure as hell caught the gist of why these folks happened upon me to offer prayer. Her state senator father disagrees.

This service, honoring Transgender Remembrance Day, will follow the basic arc of Jewish prayers for nightfall and for welcoming the Sabbath as it arrives on Friday night. On another day of the week, such a gathering might focus on informing ourselves and taking action. There is much to be done to make the Jewish community and the wider world a safer, more just and more welcoming place for all. And there is much grieving to be done for lives lost to anti-trans violence. For on it God ceased from all work that by creating God made. So, we cease with the petitions, the task forces, marches and legislation. We stop doing and be.

Later authors of Scripture interpreted this twofold act of creation and blessing to entail moral norms such as the mutual cultivation of intimacy between husband and wife and the prohibition of sexual immorality and divorce c. Recent decades have witnessed the steady erosion of biblical moral norms governing sexual behavior. As these norms regarding, among others, nonmarital sexual intercourse, homosexual activity, marital fidelity, procreation, and divorce have given way in the broader culture to more permissive understandings, new, more fundamental challenges have emerged to the very notion of biological complementarianism itself. In this position paper, we set out to answer that question by first understanding the experience of transgender persons in social-scientific terms. Then, we turn to a theological evaluation of the matter in light of what the Bible teaches about the sanctity of the body and about transgender behavior.

Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. Someone can embrace a transgender identity or find their identity in Christ, but not both.