If all one read were these stories, it would appear that the Bible is unequivocal in its condemnation of gender expansiveness and that all of Christendom is unflinching in its interpretation of that scripture.
Nothing could be further from the truth. As scholars who have studied the Bible for decades, we believe transgender people—just like all people—are our sacred, precious, divinely cherished neighbors. There’s no reason that one narrow religious interpretation should be able to dictate policy and structure our community.
The author of Genesis writes that “male and female [God] created them” (1.27). While some point to this scripture as confirmation of a gender binary, others identify it as a rhetorical device known as a merism, used frequently throughout the Bible to describe an expansive concept.
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There is no “the church” and several churches came out in support of transgender people a while ago.
Those churches need to condemn and silence the hateful ones.
How the fuck do you expect one church to be able to silence another? Do you think they engage in mortal combat in a gladiatorial area?
Same way Evangelicals are fine maming and torturing trans siblings. Do you think we’re being genocide for the second coming of christ? Or is anti bigotry just a parade in your accountability?
You haven’t answered anything
Wait, is your reading comprehension supremely poor? I literally wrote how Christians should act against bigotry, twice even.
Ironic you accusing me of that. You never said how one church is even able to silence another. And I asked you twice and both times you choose to ignore my question and instead fight with shadows.
Next, you’re going to tell me Inquisition never happened.
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