Bill Muehlenberg, Culture Watch, 4/4/23
The more I think about it, the more diabolical things appear to be. We do not just have bad philosophies and bad ideologies and bad social policies and bad political agendas. We have satanic philosophies and satanic ideologies and satanic social policies and satanic political agendas. The god of this world is fully behind them all.
The truth is, Satan comes to steal, kill and destroy, as Jesus made clear in John 1:10. Name your poison: abortion on demand, the war on marriage and family, the scourge of drugs, the porn plague, the radical woke agenda items, and so on. They all cause tremendous harm and often death.
The devil does his evil work in so many ways, and children are especially in his sights. One of his most recent and most destructive assaults on us all is via the trans activists. Transgenderism is a diabolical war on reality, biology, truth and people, and it is mainly a full frontal attack on our kids.
But like just about anything that the enemy uses to cause carnage and havoc, plenty of clueless and carnal Christians will happily go right along with it. Thus we have pro-abortion “Christians,” pro-homosexuality “Christians,” and pro-trans “Christians”.
In my book, any Christian who supports and promotes the trans militancy in the name of ‘tolerance’ and ‘love’ is simply playing into the enemy’s hands. They have no clue what biblical love means, and they have no clue what Scripture actually teaches.
Simply put, if you love someone, you do NOT want them to go through invasive and irreversible surgeries and procedures that will leave them damaged for life. There is nothing loving about that. And even playing the pronouns game is unloving. Telling lies and denying reality is not how we help anyone.
Truth telling is what these confused and hurting people need – not falsehoods. Back in 2019 I penned a piece on why we should not buy the trans pronoun nonsense. Among other things, I quoted professor Robert Gagnon:
I am stunned that any leader of the Southern Baptist Convention, much less the President, would be contending that faithful Christians should practice so-called “pronoun hospitality” in addressing “transgender” persons by their delusional pretend sex. The idea that Jesus or Paul would have referred to a man as a woman or a woman as a man in anything other than satire and derision for abhorrent behavior is absurd revisionism in the extreme.
It is not an act of “hospitality” or “respect” to the offender but rather (1) a scandal to the weak and young in the church and a rightful violation of conscience for many that will lead many to stumble to their ruin; (2) an accommodation to sin that God finds utterly abhorrent; and (3) a complicity in the offender’s self-dishonoring, self-degrading, and self-demeaning behavior that does him no favor because it can get him (or her) excluded from the kingdom of God. Am I being obtuse here?
What’s next? Treating as a married couple an incestuous union involving a man and his mother, allegedly as a show of hospitality and honoring of their own perspective? Is that what they think Paul would have done at Corinth? Treating the man and his stepmother as “husband” and “wife” so as to extend “hospitality” and “respect”? What kind of revisionist lunacy is this?
I can’t believe that there is no serious push-back on this in the Southern Baptist Convention. . . . I don’t really see what the point is of the SBC having an inerrancy doctrine if it leads to leaders encouraging their congregations to call men women and women men, which in God’s eyes would be blaspheming his work as Creator. I would expect this kind of nonsense from the PCUSA, not the SBC. I am in utter disbelief. Is this something that Al Mohler would approve of? And if not, has he said anything against it? And if not, why not? https://billmuehlenberg.com/2019/11/24/he-she-or-it-trans-pronoun-etiquette/
Moments ago I posted on the social media some thoughts about this, and a few minuteslater my American philosophy professor friend Douglas Groothuis posted a link to a brand-new article that is a must read. It is penned by an ex-lesbian who had been gloriously saved in 1999.
Rosaria Butterfield’s piece is called, “Why I no longer use Transgender Pronouns—and Why You shouldn’t, either.” Let me quote portions of the article here. She begins:
A civil war erupted within broad evangelicalism, and the idol of LGBTQ+ is dividing the house. This issue is personal, political, and spiritual for me. In 1998, I became one of the first crop of so-called “tenured radicals” in American universities, proudly touting my lesbian street cred. In 1999, Christ called me to repentance and belief, and I became a despised defector of the LGBTQ+ movement. But progressive sanctification came slowly, and I have failed many times during these past decades.
She says she has corrected course, and no longer believes she can in good Christian conscience keep pushing the trans pronoun lunacy. She believes it is sinful do to it, for these reasons:
-Using transgendered pronouns is a sin against the ninth commandment and encourages people to sin against the tenth commandment.
-Using transgendered pronouns is a sin against the creation ordinance.
-Using transgendered pronouns is a sin against image-bearing.
–Using transgendered pronouns discourages a believer’s progressive sanctification and falsifies the gospel.
-Using transgendered pronouns cheapens redemption, and it tramples on the blood of Christ.
-Using transgendered pronouns fails to love my neighbor as myself.
-Using transgendered pronouns fails to offer genuine Christian hospitality and instead yields the definition of hospitality to liberal communitarianism, identity politics, and “human flourishing.”
-Using transgendered pronouns isn’t a sin because the times have changed, and therefore, using transgendered pronouns isn’t sinful today but a morally acceptable option in 2012. Sin is sin. The Bible defines this as sin. Sin does not lose its evil because of our good intentions or the personal sensibilities of others. Changing cultural forces can bring sin into fresh light (as the Supreme Court’s Obergefell decision did for me). But a renewed focus is no excuse for sin and no dodge for repentance, not for a real Christian.
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https://billmuehlenberg.com/2023/04/04/forget-the-trans-pronouns-and-all-the-other-harmful-lies/
The basis for all this delusion is that there is no God, that we’re “evolved” freaks of nature like Darwin claimed. The discovery of the intelligently designed DNA code puts an end to that delusion and makes a liar out of Darwin and his phony “evolution”.
We just need to throw Darwin’s garbage out and to reinstate the rightful place of Almighty God as the loving Creator of all things including us. We all need to acknowledge that God spoke the Truth to us in His Holy Bible and to replace today’s man-made delusions with His Holy Word.
With that realignment we can then fulfill where the Lord’s Prayer says, “…Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven…”. There is no greater glory than that.
To God be all the glory.
The only obstacle to that is those who refuse to humble themselves before God and who seek to be served like gods themselves rather than to serve God. They seek to enslave others with many ongoing delusions of their own, such as phony transgenderism and phony racism to name just two.
Guess what? When I clicked “post comment” to the above comment, a web page appeared that said in large letters, “Not Acceptable!”, underlined by a sentence with technical information. I’ve seen this before but not for a long time.
When I switched my VPN location, then my comment was posted. I wondered in the past who could be doing that censorship. Now I think it’s someone at WordPress doing it.