None. But I knew quite a few kids and parents not to mention teachers and possibly even the person in the mirror immersed in the thinking, belief and acceptance of greed and pride – not to mention lies. 🤷♀️🤷♀️
I don’t have time to edit this now sorry. I’ll try to edit it later.
Gender dysphoria comes out of an incomplete understanding of how God designed humans. There are more threads than could be mentioned here to the conversation. On one side they are correct, women don’t have to be feminine. Men don’t have to be masculine. Feminine and masculine are not orders of the Bible. And so we humans have a tendency to take a pendulum if you will and swing it from one side to the other. When the proper order of male and female is disrupted by abuse, absenteeism, Pride and lack of love, when we add to the word of God and demand men and women be something they should not, or add to the word of God and put a false definition on the authority of the male after the fall of Adam and Eve and the gift given to both of them to combat to the pride that is characteristic of the devil and the Antichrist spirit because love is not proud, love doesn’t demand its own way, God gave a beautiful gift Eve as she was created to be Adam’s helpmate and she was designed so that he not be alone. And in a healthy loving environment it is the most beautiful and Powerful powerful gift that shows the love of God because in the church, we as the bride of Christ and as the children of God are not equal to God. God is above all. He is the ultimate Authority and when there is Godly Authority it reflects his love and you see that kind of authority in Jesus who took torture, death and even hell for his beloved so that we wouldn’t have to ever be alone. Such a gift God gave Eve to Adam so that he wouldn’t be alone, and even within the English language we have the tiniest reflection as we are human beings not human doings, however often we lose sight of that. We often think that are only worse than the worst of others is and how well we achieve, that is the fall. In love, God’s kind of love, he looks at the heart. And so the woman who has suffered her life and now battles drug addiction and she is clinging on to life with everything she’s got she is deeply adored and loved by God same for any man even those in what we would call horrendous sins, murderers, even rapists. God hates the sin. He absolutely abhors the sin that we commit, in the Bible is clear because often greed and pride and lack of Love is what is the Catalyst for all of those other what we deem absolutely horrendous crimes and sins. But there are a lot of threads to the gender question. They are right within some areas. And one of the biggest deceptions of the devil is just bringing confusion so that instead of taking each thread and examining it for truth, we follow the accusers lead and we accuse. Instead of seeking truth Grace Justice and mercy according to God’s laws not ours. Woman was given generally speaking, a womb. The only thing we can take with us into the next life our children and people whose lives we have touched as we draw them into the truth and Grace of Jesus christ. Everything else is temporary and will be gone. But we are Eternal creatures. So no I didn’t know anybody with gender dysphoria but I knew a lot of people that were broken and that we’re struggling to know who they were. I knew a lot of people that were arrogant and prideful, for example that would put a man like King Solomon that was not masculine necessarily, but was a thinker personality, interested in books and learning, there are those that would call him a nerd and put him down. I don’t see any record of Daniel being particularly masculine. He was a businessman. He was not a warrior or a soldier. Likewise in the Bible the Proverbs 31 Woman, who I hope to go up and be like one day but at the rate I’m going it’s not going to happen I’ve already 56, she was absolutely amazing. She started with what she had in her hands and provided clothes for her family but then figured she had enough to sell some. She worked herself up with a tiny little sales business of closed to producing enough income from that to purchase down the road Vineyard and higher servants. She was a CEO of her own business. Queen Esther was involved in the decision making of a country, preserving the lives of an entire population. The problem is when the lies come in and attack people and they’re not strong to combat from through the truth of the word of God the devil is happy to provide an alternative. Likewise we know that greed is a sin in the Bible as equal and damnable to murder. So if we are not being greedy we are deeply concerned for the poor and the oppressed according to God’s commands from Genesis to revelations. So how exactly is the Christian church in the western world doing with that right now? Everybody take a quick look at the past 5 years of our bank accounts and publicize them if we want to condemn one kind of sin over the other. So when people are raised in the knowledge of God in a loving environment, there are three things going on. One the Living God is in the mix. He is a loving father that is interested not in instant Perfection but in loving relationship, walking alongside Us in the mix where we are at In This Moment In Time. The second thing in a Godly Christian loving home is that the laws of God are being taught from early childhood. We have Generations now of children being raised by TV and electronics. Think about this for just a minute. All of the natural brain processing that for centuries would have been taught even a two and a half year old how to pick up their clothes and put them in the laundry basket or wash dishes is now being replaced because families are too busy to actually train up the children in the way they should go, and so there’s not a lot of training going on. Brain patterns are being trained to stare at a computer screen which is addicting. No I’m totally not using my cell phone on Facebook right now. And so a lot of things that were normal to a certain degree throughout the past Millenia I’ve been Stripped Away from society. Because one of the things that would have been taught in former years in a Christian home is the concept that we don’t do what is wrong because we feel like doing it. So I have what is now diagnosed and over sexualized drive. I have suffered a lot in my life I was raised in a ghetto I’ve had people try to kill me. The hardest thing I’ve ever battled hands down in my life is borderline Bipolar brain and an overceptualized Drive. So why didn’t I just give in why didn’t I just become a paid prostitute? Why didn’t I just do what my brain and sexual life Drive told me to do? Because I feared God and I believe the Bible. I have three children my oldest just graduated from Notre Dame with two degrees all bills paid. My middle daughter through covid rescued I don’t know how many young people from suicide because she’d already gone through the battle years earlier because she and I suffer from depression. Lives have been saved because of my middle daughter. My youngest daughter also is a great influence and a delight all three of them to be around. Not because we haven’t gone through trauma or trials because we have, but because we’ve gone through them with the power of God and the love of God and the truth of his word. If I had done what my body and brain told me to do my three girls would not exist. You see it’s never about us the attack is far more devious. Thankfully there is a savior and one day there will be a renewal of all things according to Jesus words. One day every human will stand before him and we will most certainly give an account of every word we’ve spoken in every thing we’ve done down here so it would be great wisdom to not wait until that day to start the conversation with him but to read his word and find a truthful Godly church that speaks the truth of the Bible and walks in love. There must be both one without the other is judgmentalism, and Grace without truth very simply is a lie. So there are certain truths that this gender dysphoria was bringing to light and dealing with however the pendulum swung to the other direction and there are things that are not true within it. We can stop pointing fingers now. Because every time we have a finger pointing at somebody else we’ve got three more and one thumb pointing back at ourself.
At the cross of Jesus Christ the sins of the world were forgiven. That does not negate the laws of God the law of gravity still is going to work as are the spiritual laws God has put into this world. So perhaps we should begin to start living according to his greatest law:
To Love.
Love God with all our hearts minds and strength.
Neighbor AS OURSELVES.
LOVE even our enemies.
“[16] There are six things the Lord hates, seven that are detestable to him:
[17] haughty eyes,
a lying tongue,
hands that shed innocent blood,
[18] a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are quick to rush into evil,
[19] a false witness who pours out lies and
*** a person who stirs up conflict in the community.”
Proverbs 6:16-19 NIV
https://bible.com/bible/111/pro.6.16-19.NIV
