tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791373253545709506.post3959164550877630611..comments2023-10-18T08:48:39.075-07:00Comments on Living Transgender In American Society Today: Focus on the Family Is Not Our Friend!Eva-Genevieve!http://www.blogger.com/profile/05487094656415792068noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791373253545709506.post-43095551060970881952009-02-20T16:19:00.000-08:002009-02-20T16:19:00.000-08:00It sure seems that way when you follow most of the...It sure seems that way when you follow most of the very public evangelicals. Their mistake is presuming they know what God can and can't join together. What they offer is a false and empty "family value" that does not hold up in the human diversity of God's modern day creation. It does not draw toward Christ but it clearly pushes many away and that is sad.<BR/><BR/>I have been amazed many times listening to Dobson's program and to that of, I think it is, Dennis Rainey and wife too. He/they start out very much right on with the scriptures, but when it comes to gender the switch immediately flips and out goes love, compassion, longsuffering, the saving-to-the-uttermost power of the Blood of Christ and all understanding of just how much God loves all His created ones, all in one swoop. How one can detach from the love of God so suddenly and selectively is beyond my understanding and it does not ring true with the God I know in Scripture or in my life.<BR/><BR/>In my fundamentalist days it became clear to me that I was not able to switch God on and off or find hard and fast limits to God's grace and love like they seem to do on certain issues like gender, and in the final analisys it is my flesh that has to be the mutable part of my existance. I tried to change the inner me for 35 years and could not even with much prayer, supplication, fasting, deliverance, intense counseling (and so much more effort too). I also tried to conform my knowledge of God to the limits of fundamentalist religion and could not - that box was way too small! <BR/><BR/>My faith in God and His salvation in Christ, my life and my love for Him I could not end (though there were many horrible days I wanted Him to end it for me as a "man" that could not fit in anyone's god-box). I discovered I can not pluck myself out of His hand, but I can become the person He created on the inside, by faith and somewhat in form (at least as medical science and finances allow once the gatekeepers are out of the way) as well as in spirit and soul. I can love myself and live sanely because He walks with me in transition and all that I do. I can then love my neighbors as I love myself too and that is what His gift to me of being transgender is all about - loving God and being in His/Her image.<BR/><BR/>But you understand that, so I am preaching to the choir now.<BR/><BR/>Hugs Sister,<BR/>Eva-Genevieve!Eva-Genevieve!https://www.blogger.com/profile/05487094656415792068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791373253545709506.post-84375172682666200052009-02-20T09:12:00.000-08:002009-02-20T09:12:00.000-08:00And the bible says that whatever God joins togethe...And the bible says that whatever God joins together let no man break apart (paraphrase).Focus on the Family is supposed to focus on strenghtening family regardless of their sexual or gender identity. I guess TGLBQI families don't count.genevievehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07041499205158357183noreply@blogger.com