I have always thought that Christians who have jumped on the Transgender bandwagon must have a very poor grasp of the Biblical teaching on the nature of human physical existence.
There is no such thing as a "gendered soul" because our physical body and who we are as a person are inextricably interlinked.
On the homosexual issue, even if you take an evolutionary view of the world w/o a creating deity then homosexuality is an evolutionary dead end.
We are embodied avatars (souls) of Source or God, if you prefer. As such, one's body is the sacred vehicle that one's Soul has chosen in which to incarnate. To disown this sacred temple, either physically or intellectually is a renunciation of one's soul, but as Carl Jung once stated, "People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls".
I'm not sure that the "soul" is a Biblical concept (happy to be proved wrong). The whole point of the Biblical narrative is "we are" (body and spirit) as God "Is" (I am who I am) and that on the Day of Resurrection we will be raised into a physical body (as Jesus was) and we will then live on the Earth as God meant us to live before Adam and Eve disobeyed.
I have always thought that Christians who have jumped on the Transgender bandwagon must have a very poor grasp of the Biblical teaching on the nature of human physical existence.
There is no such thing as a "gendered soul" because our physical body and who we are as a person are inextricably interlinked.
On the homosexual issue, even if you take an evolutionary view of the world w/o a creating deity then homosexuality is an evolutionary dead end.
Great essay. A joy to read.
Nevertheless, the soul and spirit are eternal.
We are embodied avatars (souls) of Source or God, if you prefer. As such, one's body is the sacred vehicle that one's Soul has chosen in which to incarnate. To disown this sacred temple, either physically or intellectually is a renunciation of one's soul, but as Carl Jung once stated, "People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls".
I'm not sure that the "soul" is a Biblical concept (happy to be proved wrong). The whole point of the Biblical narrative is "we are" (body and spirit) as God "Is" (I am who I am) and that on the Day of Resurrection we will be raised into a physical body (as Jesus was) and we will then live on the Earth as God meant us to live before Adam and Eve disobeyed.