Martin Davie (CT): A Christian Approach to Transgenderism

A very good and thoughtful piece on a very difficult subject. I am thankful that there are still those who are not ashamed of the gospel and who are willing to speak clearly and truthfully about transgenderism from a Christian perspective. For those with ears to hear, listen and understand.

Nevertheless, from a traditional Christian point of view there are still two basic reasons why it is problematic to accept someone as a member of their chosen sex if they are biologically a member of the opposite sex.

The first reason is that the two books of Scripture and nature which are the basis for our understanding of the activity of God both tell us that biology determines the difference between men and women.

In the case of Scripture, the Book of Genesis tells us:

‘ So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. And God blessed them, and God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth’ (Genesis 1:26-28).

Here the state of being male and female is directly linked to the ability to reproduce, ‘to be fruitful and multiply’. It is because God has given male and female human beings the necessary biological characteristics to reproduce that from Genesis 4:1 onwards human beings have children. Furthermore, from Genesis 4:1 the reproductive pattern determined by these characteristics remains unchanged throughout Scripture. It is men who beget, but it is women who conceive, carry babies in their womb, and then give birth.

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