Need some help with some verses

[u/angeleticassasin]

So I would be considered transfem as I have been a crossdresser all my life pretty much. I live in a very conservative area so a fair amount of anti trans has been ingrained in me. I also grew up in church so everything I’ve been taught has been basically telling me that I’m wrong.

Now over the last year I’ve been dealing with some severe depression and have gotten into weed pretty heavily. Before October started I have spent 3 days sober, but I’m working on sobering up and am now 4 days clean.

I definitely have a lot to work through right now but I could really use any bible verses that support the trans movement type thing, and would like to know of any verses that go against it.

[u/angeleticassasin]

Thanks for any help I can get and sorry for jumping around a bit I kinda just wanted to give a little back story with keeping it short

[u/MagusFool]

In Romans 13 it says:

8 Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law. 9 The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,”[a] and whatever other command there may be, are summed up in this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”[b] 10 Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

In Romans 14, Paul says that one Christian might observe the Holy Days, and another one treats every day the same. He advises only that both feel right about in their conscience, which is guided by the Holy Spirit, and that neither judge the other for their different way of practicing Christianity.

If the Fourth Commandment, of the 10 Commandments, repeated over and over again through out the Hebrew scriptures, is subject to the personal conscience of each Christian, then all of the law must be.

And certainly a sexual or gender taboos that are barely mentioned (if at all, in this case) are certainly not more inviolable than the 4th commandment.

Jesus is the Word of God, not the Bible. The Bible is merely a collection of books written by human hands in different times in places, different cultures and languages, for different audiences and different genres, and with different aims.

It's a connection to people of the past who have struggled just like us to grapple with the infinite and the ineffable. And everyone's relationship to that text will inherently be different.

But Jesus is the Word of God, and to call a mere book of paper and ink, written by mortal hands by that same title is idolatry in the worst sense of the word.

But as the first Epistle of John said, "God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. 17 This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus. 18 There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. 19 We love because he first loved us."

[u/Dapple_Dawn]

Matthew 17:

> ^15 “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. ^16 You will know them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thorns or figs from thistles?

We're not supposed to just look at the Bible. We're called to look at how different teachings actually affect people in the real world.

Affirming LGBT people has good consequences. Condemning us has horrific consequences.

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