Drew Steve, a female pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America who identifies as a man, recently suggested that the incompatibility between gender ideology and the Bible's teachings, especially those regarding sex, points to a flaw in the Bible. , controversial.
“CBS Mornings'” Lisa Lin told Stebel in a recent article: interview “There are a lot of people who say that.” according to the bibleGod created man and woman, but this cannot be more clearly defined. ”
program quoted A 2017 Pew Research poll found that 63% of American Christians say their gender is determined by their sex at birth. 35% of Christian respondents said their gender may be different from their birth gender.
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recent pew data What CBS News apparently chose to ignore is that the percentage of American Christians who affirm the unity of gender and biological sex has increased significantly since then.
“It’s hard to relate that to modern times.”
In a 2017 poll, 68% of Protestants and 51% of Catholics said a person's gender is the same as their sex at birth, but by 2022 that number has jumped to 75% and 62%, respectively. Ta.
“How would you answer them?” Lynn asked Steve.
“It's hard to apply this to modern times,” said Stephen, senior pastor of Hope Lutheran Church in Hollywood. “Because it wasn’t written for 2024, it was written for then.”
Stephen did not specifically show why modern people should have a different relationship to the Bible than Christ.
treated as authoritative A divine writ that existed in his time already about 1,400 years ago.
“When we read in the Bible that God created man and woman, yes, and God created everyone else as well,” Stephen continued.
Stephen is not the first LGBT activist to suggest that the Bible's teachings on sex and gender are outdated and malleable.
“By portraying the homophobic church as an outdated backwater, it undermines its moral authority.”
For example, the huge LGBT lobby group Human Rights Campaign
claim “Respecting the authority of the Bible does not mean rejecting Christian experience as a teacher,” the group's website states.
HRC goes on to say, “Gender complementarity is certainly rooted in passages in Genesis 1 and 2, but these stories suggest that God defined male and female sex (defined as the complex result of the combination of chromosomes and gonads).” It is worth noting that he states that he began by creating human beings (to be). , genes, reproductive organs, etc.) However, there is nothing in the Bible to indicate that God created only this binary. ”
Activists Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen wrote in their 1990 book:
strategy In order to advance the LGBT agenda, it is necessary to “undermine the rationalizations that muddy the moral waters or 'justify' religious bigotry”. “Raise”[e] “serious theological objections to conservative Biblical teachings” and “undermines the moral authority of homophobic churches, by portraying such organizations as outdated backwaters grossly out of step with the times.” .
Late “New Theist” Pastor Michael Dowd
claimed“We humans who wish to continue to call ourselves Christians must no longer enslave our hearts and minds to the inert fossils of ancient texts and creeds.”
Considered by some to be Daud
critic As a neo-pagan, he implored Christians to “throw away the shackles of religious narrative and scripture and embrace evolutionary growth within our religious traditions.”
CBS News places Stephen's response and ministry within the broader context of a movement by some Christian denominations to embrace the agenda of LGBT activists and cross-dressing clergy, and that the ELCA announced in 2015 that it would become the first cross-dressing priest. He further pointed out that he had been ordained.
Anglican Church, episcopal church, Presbyterian Church (USA),and united methodist church It is one of the sects that openly embraces gender ideology and cross-dressing clergy.
Transgenderism is the Catholic Church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Southern Baptist Conventionand even in other relatively conservative Christian denominations.
Asked about her message to those who feel “on fire” in religion, Steveber said, “I'm sorry the church is missing you. People of color, people living with disabilities. “I want to say this especially to LGBTQ people.'' There's nothing wrong with you, and the church doesn't need to say that. ”
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