No, I don't think so. Please show me how you think I contradicted myself.
The brain is notoriously malleable. Research has shown that the brain can be significantly "re-wired" by what one tells oneself and how one chooses to behave.
You imply it's in the wiring, then say you don't know where it comes from.
Brain chemistry and neurology at this point can tell us nothing definitive about the source or cause of homosexuality or transgender fixation.
Nevermind that you say it is a fixation, implying obsession, which is symptomatic of OCD- basically implying that GLBT is a disorder of some kind.
Who is to say He did? Chapter and verse, please.
No. You made the affirmative claim-
However, when someone is clearly physically female or male but wishes they were of the opposite sex, they are not acting in accord with their natural, God-given state and so are guilty of a perversion of that state.
Back the point or concede it.
I think God has an overarching role in the creation of every individual, but the sickness, disabilities, and death that permeate humanity were never part of God's original plan and He does not desire them to exist in humanity as a positive norm.
God is all powerful and could prevent such things if not in His design. So either he didn't prevent it, meaning it was intentional, or it's in God's design. Your argument here ignores this.
These things have come as the result of sin's curse (Gen. 3:16-19; Ro. 5:12) which God allows to corrupt humanity. God's original plan was "male and female created He them," not "male and female and anything in between." Transgendered fixation is clearly outside of God's established genders.
Your reasoning still states that God did it anyway. For what reason would God create confusion like this? I thought you said God doesn't author confusion.
I was referring to hermaphrodites who have no clear physical gender and who do have a genetic origin for their condition.
Oh, so they're diseased and malformed, then. That's even better.
In the beginning God created male and female. With the advent of sin into the world came disease, physical malformation, and death. Among other things, the distinct genders God had originally made have been allowed over time to be corrupted by the curse of sin.
Yes, this is speculative and I say so in the above quotation. But there is some indirect basis in Scripture for giving some weight to it. If you don't think so, well, its no skin off my nose.
Obviously you didn't read what I wrote. I'll emphasize.
You are just speculating, again, and have no proof given thus far.
I've already given an answer to this in other parts of my posts. Feel free to read those other parts!
No. You're the one saying they should change their desires, or try to. You can support it. If that means you copy paste, then do so. But 'I already said why' in a thread of 18 long posts doesn't give me incentive to go looking for YOUR evidence.
Does this fellow have breasts, and a vagina typical of women? Does he have a uterus and ovaries? If not, well, my case is made.
No, it doesn't. The request was to prove that he is identifying as something he isn't. Do you have proof that this person's gender is not female with male sex organs? I didn't think so. You can't. You're not God, and you are not a psychologist.
Merely feeling and thinking that you are a woman doesn't make you one any more than thinking and feeling you are chicken makes you a chicken. Its sad that I have to clarify this for you...
It's sad that you compare humans identifying with humans to humans identifying as animals. Apples to oranges.
I don't care if you disagree, I care why you disagree. If you can do better, then expound. If not, concede the point.
I have a good friend who has his Phd. in clinical psychology and he would laugh out loud at your remarks here! He often mocks how little the soft science of psychology really knows about the human mind and its complexities. And as far as he is concerned, no one is normal.
Psychology has more evidence supporting it than most 'hard' sciences. If your friend is in clinical psychology, then he knows what norms are and thus the proper definition of the word normal. And btw, I don't care what friends you have or what you think of psychology. If you're going to use psychological terms to say that transgendered is disordered, you must show evidence rather than making unsupported claims that confuse people.
As you may have guessed, I have little use or respect for psychology as a field of science. I have too many people around me who are depressed, and OCD, and anxious and who, though they have sought "professional psychiatric aid," remain unimproved - and sometimes much worse.
Obviously you don't even know what psychology is if you're ripping psychiatry. They're two different fields. Back your claim, or concede the point.
No, as I have explained already, God creates but He allows the curse of sin to corrupt His creation.
The verses exclude by implication any other sex - much like the sign on the door of the women's washroom says "Women" and in so doing implicitly excludes all men. Do you really need such things explained to you?
Condescension will not gain you any brownie points. If your argument is correct, then there are no hermaphrodites. Clearly there are, so your argument is incorrect. You have not refuted my statements.
I don't care if you disagree. Citing some random passage does not give weight to your claim.
I disagree. It is a modern, liberal, homosexually-soft interpretation that most often suggests these verses refer to prostitution.
So what if it's modern and liberal. This doesn't make the claim incorrect.
In context, clearly they do not. And while I don't think transgendered fixation and homosexuality are identical, I do think they have things in common.
If they are not identical, then they are off topic. In context, they clearly do discuss prostitution. They cannot discuss homosexuality because first off, it's a banned topic and you wouldn't be discussing that unless you want to get in trouble. Second, homosexuality refers to men with men and women with women- same sex attractions. The verse discusses only men with men. Lastly, it is in a section of Leviticus that clearly discusses foreign practices. Your 'context' debunks your claim.
I disagree. I think it quite on topic.
What distinction this passage offers between the sexes is implicit - like the sign on the door to the woman's washroom. The qualities of the woman in the passage are not confined necessarily to married women.
Pro 31:10 A capable wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels.
Pro 31:11 The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he will have no lack of gain.
Pro 31:12 She does him good, and not harm, all the days of her life.
Pro 31:13 She seeks wool and flax, and works with willing hands.
Pro 31:14 She is like the ships of the merchant, she brings her food from far away.
Pro 31:15 She rises while it is still night and provides food for her household and tasks for her servant-girls.
Pro 31:16 She considers a field and buys it; with the fruit of her hands she plants a vineyard.
Pro 31:17 She girds herself with strength, and makes her arms strong.
Pro 31:18 She perceives that her merchandise is profitable. Her lamp does not go out at night.
Pro 31:19 She puts her hands to the distaff, and her hands hold the spindle.
Pro 31:20 She opens her hand to the poor, and reaches out her hands to the needy.
Pro 31:21 She is not afraid for her household when it snows, for all her household are clothed in crimson.
Pro 31:22 She makes herself coverings; her clothing is fine linen and purple.
Pro 31:23 Her husband is known in the city gates, taking his seat among the elders of the land.
Pro 31:24 She makes linen garments and sells them; she supplies the merchant with sashes.
Pro 31:25 Strength and dignity are her clothing, and she laughs at the time to come.
Pro 31:26 She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue.
Pro 31:27 She looks well to the ways of her household, and does not eat the bread of idleness.
Pro 31:28 Her children rise up and call her happy; her husband too, and he praises her:
Pro 31:29 "Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all."
Pro 31:30 Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.
Pro 31:31 Give her a share in the fruit of her hands, and let her works praise her in the city gates.
I'm sorry, but what part of that isn't talking about married people? The entire segment is prefaced with a discussion of a wife, not women as a whole. Again you ripped the verse out of context.
You see what you want to see I guess...
Cut the personal attacks, they have no place in a discussion. Address the argument, or concede the point.
I never said it had to with God being 100% clear on everything. And it doesn't have to do with prophecy. It has to do with women causing disturbances in the meetings of the local church body, as verse 34 reveals. Paul declares that peace should mark the meeting of the body of believers since they are the children of the Author of Peace. God was not the author of the disorderly behaviour of the women that was plaguing the meetings of the Corinthian church.
I think the disorderly behaviour or confusion that Paul speaks of in 1Corinthians 14:33 may be applied to other kinds of disturbances to the divine order of things. It seems obvious to me that transgendered fixation is a sort of confusion of God's intended order of the genders. As such it isn't from God.
Selah.
Another contradiction. And another claim you never supported.