As Christian believers we are in this world, but not of it. Therefore our role is to preach the Gospel of Christ, and tell people what Jesus did for us on the Cross in that He bled and died to take the penalty for our sins, and rose again to give us eternal life. This is the power of God that will change lives. This is much more than just quoting Bible verses in opposition to LGBTQ, abortion, or any other evil in society. We are not here to debate in opposition to these things. We are here to tell people about Jesus and what He did for us on the Cross. We can't make people believe us. That is the role of the Holy Spirit. Our job is just to tell people about Jesus. Most will not believe because the road to hell is broad and many are on it. The way to eternal life is narrow and few are able to find it. So, when you share the Gospel, nine out of ten hearers will reject it, but the angels in heaven will rejoice over the one person who will believe it and go on to be genuinely converted to Christ.
Oh yes it's a well known fact among therapists that social media has a huge affect on this.
Everything that has been commented on about the evils of the society were said to Christian believers. If you examine any sermons preached to unbelievers, they have always been Christ, Him crucified, and resurrected. Paul, when he went to preach to the Corinthians, whose sins were the worst in Roman society, he made no mention of their sins, but limited himself to preaching Christ. When Paul testified to Felix, Festus and Agrippa, he gave his testimony of how he was converted to Christ. But in his letters to Christian believers, he was much more descriptive about the sins of the flesh, and very much so in the first chapters of Romans. I think it is a mistake to quote those passages to unbelievers because they were not written for, or to them. All that believers need to know is about Christ and Him crucified.
How do you know? Maybe they have a mental health issue. There's obviously nothing wrong with the body. It has the right chromosomes and other things that make them the sex they are. There might be something wrong with their mental health and it's their brain and psychology that needs repair.
Yes, I agree. It affirms the article in question. It's pointless to argue with what we agree on.
Psycom Pro is a psychiatry resource for clinicians, and last year it concluded that “More than half of transgender individuals experience partner violence or gender identity abuse.”
I'm not talking about gender diversity status. That has nothing to do with the facts presented by numerous studies and sources.. Transgenders tend to beat each other up more than cisgenders.
In 2020, seven experts published a study in the American Journal of Public Health on “Intimate Partner Violence in Transgender Populations; Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Prevalence and Correlates.” They concluded that “Transgender individuals experience a dramatically higher prevalence of IPV [intimate partner violence] victimization compared with cisgender individuals, regardless of sex assigned at birth.
I am to believe you checked the American Journal of Public Health, Psycom Pro (restricted to clinicians) and the Williams Institute. That's impressive.
The National Coalition Against Domestic Violence reviewed the literature on domestic violence in the LGBT community and found that “43.8% of lesbian women and 61.1% of bisexual women have experienced rape, physical violence, and/or stalking by an intimate partner at some point in their lifetime, as opposed to 35% of cisgender women.” It also found that “Transgender individuals may suffer from an even greater burden of intimate partner violence than gay or lesbian individuals.”
Bill Donohue has a Ph.D. in sociology. What he publishes carries more weight than your rude remarks.
The only reason why transgenders would choose to marry in a church would be to score a point according to their view that a church should accept transgenders - even though they would not be members of that particular church anyway. As far as church membership goes, I like one Lutheran church that requires any person to undertake two years of catechism training plus a one hour examination, before being admitted as a member. A conservative church could have a policy that only members of that church may be married in that church. Although a church may not be able to refuse membership to a transgender, having that person undertake two whole years of catechism training and a one hour examination, may put them off joining that church, and going to find another church that is more liberal and accepting of LGBTQ people. Other than that, the only option would be a Registry Office which is able to conduct Civil Union marriages.
Well since the surgeries and other irreversible treatments are largely confined to actual cases of gender disphoria (or should be) how does transgenderism itself harm children other than that?
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I don't disagree at all. But that's not what's happening. Affirmation therapy doesn't seem to sort anything out, but seeks to affirm they are indeed trans. In fact not much therapy takes place at all.
