3.26.2017 TRANSGENDER?

this is from reflections early this morning based on hearing a talk show on the radio yesterday which had a panel of high school girls who were all, basically, coming out in favor of everyone else in society, despite concern, lack of comfort with, etc. welcoming with open arms of acceptance people who viewed themselves as opposite/other than the gender that God created them to be.
i was just about to call the 'call in ' # with some unformed thoughts and fortunately was interrupted by a knock at the back door that diverted attention away.
early this morning the thoughts arose again and below are the results of this reflection.

re: transgender..
Proverbs 14.12 - there is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
general beginning statement: 'If I persist in living ' "WHO' I FEEL LIKE', as opposed to 'WHAT GOD SAYS IN HIS WORD', and 'DO WHAT I LIKE' rather than 'DO WHAT GOD COMMANDS' concerning a thing, I am in danger of eternal retribution.

In Deuteronomy 22.5 God  says, 'A woman shall not wear man's clothing nor shall a man put on a woman's clothing; for whoever DOES these things IS AN ABOMINATION'(def. latin abominatus : made of ab- which means 'from' and the second part, 'omin' which means 'omen', an omen is occurrence/phenomenon believed to portend (anticipatory sign of a) future event. so WEARING the clothing of the gender opposite of what God created you to be is equivalent in God's sight wearing the SIGN of your coming destruction in hell. WHY SO?!!!! one might ask! Because God requires us to be perfect to get into heaven. in Matthew 5.38 Jesus said, 'BE PERFECT just as your Father in heaven is perfect. So who can be perfect? NO ONE. the Bible says, 'ALL have sinned and come short of the glory of God',(romans 3.23) and 'the wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life thru Jesus Christ our Lord' (6.23).
Jesus, God in the flesh, became a man so He could pay the penalty for your sin and my sin (we all sin all the time. 'there is not a just man upon earth who doETH good and sinnETH not'. ...(note, in the King James Version ..which I just quoted, -ETH on the end of a word has the idea of continual or repeated action. so here the Bible tells us what we know already in our heart...and that is that we all regularly sin, that is, we all regularly disobey what God says in His word.)

So let's look at a person who privately thinks of themselves as different from the gender which God created them to be. they may do one of two things.

A. they may TOSS OUT Deuteronomy 22.5 and THE part(s) of the BIBLE they don't like. God gives every man and woman He creates freedom to chose for themselves. He loves each one of us but He will not make us choose to seek to obey Him. a second person may have the exact same, or stronger INCLINATION  toward what the first person has chosen. the first person may chose to ignore Deuteronomy 22.5, they may chose to go into a more extreme rebellion against God's word and have a (or multiple) sex change operation(s). they may chose to shout out their desires and let the whole world know. God gives them that freedom. but as with any sin (ie. disobedience) against God there is a principle at work and that is PAY DAY SOME DAY. the other person may have made a decision to not only believe what the Bible says, but, seeing themselves as sinners, to also cast themselves upon His mercy and give themselves completely to Him. this is what is spoken of in Romans 10.8-10 -'...the word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;  that if you CONFESS with your mouth JESUS AS LORD, and believe in thy heart that God hath raised Him from the dead, THOU SHALT BE SAVED. for with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.'

or B. they may confess Jesus as Lord (ie. WHATEVER YOU SAY, I WILL DO)so this second person, in all his/her struggles back and forth....for the rest of their life. they may leave God or cling to Him. we are not the judge. God is. safety is in doing, for one example of many, whatever Jesus Commands, as in Luke 13.24 - STRIVE (Greek verb AgonidzO from which our word AGONIZE (def - do to the utmost, agonizing, intense, continual pain) TO ENTER THE NARROW GATE (ie. leading to heaven) FOR MANY WILL SEEK TO ENTER AND WILL NOT BE ABLE.)

SO HOW DO I RESPOND TO A PERSON WHO SELF-IDENTIFIES AS TRANSGENDER/OTHER THAN HOW GOD CREATED ME ?

A. continually ask God to give His deep, welcoming, friend-love for as well as a secret heart-grief for them...the same as we (should) constantly have for ourselves when we are doing-contrary to what God says to do in the Bible.
B. do what love does (I Corinthians 13)
v4 suffereth long (today's word, patience)
     is kind (ie. is helpful)
v5 not easily provoked
     thinketh no evil (of anyone struggling with or caught in or even, totally given over to, sin)
v6 rejoiceth not in iniquity(whether it one that you struggle with or one that anyone else struggles with)
v7 beareth all things (constant love inspite of what is going on)
      believeth all things (for example, that no matter what sin we do God can forgive if we will keep beginning again and again to hate and agonize against doing/being what God forbids in His Word.
v8 never faileth (we never 'give up' on either God (whose love will never change) or any person (no matter how many times they fall and fail to obey God's word and respond to His unchanging love)

C. do not encourage, by word or example, any person do disregards what God says in His Word. another way to say this is be very willing to openly admit what YOU fall short of what God wants.

D. do not adopt terminology that is contrary to what God's Word says. ie. 'trans-' means 'across, beyond, through so as to change'. God made only two genders, male and female. although there are indications that sometimes the line may be blurred emotionally etc. the two body types are made in such a way that other human beings may be conceived and born and live in this world and, in heaven or hell after this life. God says, 'It is appointed unto man once to die and after that the judgment'. Hebrews 9.27

E. relate to them according to their God given gender, looking to God to guide in the path He Himself would follow were He here.
some other Bible...
Judges 17.6 and 21.25 - 'in those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
Proverbs 12.15 - the way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.
Proverbs 16.25 - there is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
Proverbs 21.2 - every way of a man is right in his won eyes:  but the Lord pondereth the hearts.

...the fool hath said in his heart (there is) no God.

....the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom