Well most people say it's a sin to be homosexual or transgender.
Leviticus contains two well known statements about homosexual activity:
You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination. (Leviticus 18:22)
If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them. (Leviticus 20:13)
This is not to say that homosexual desire is the only thing that God did not originally intend. All of our desires have been distorted by sin. But Paul does describe both lesbian and male homosexual behaviour as “unnatural.” Some have argued this refers to what is natural to the people themselves, so that what is in view is heterosexual people engaging in homosexual activity and thereby going against their “natural” orientation. According to this view, Paul is not condemning all homosexual behaviour, but only that which goes against the person’s own sexual inclinations.
For transgender people
A woman is not to wear male clothing, and a man is not to put on a woman's garment, for everyone who does these things is detestable to the LORD your
This really is hard for people like me to accept. Especially if you have severe dysphoria.
All I'm saying is most people don't agree with OP is because most people are Christian. This is what they believe.
First, "most people" are not Christian. Only about a third of the world's population is Christian.
If you believe God wants you to follow the rules in Leviticus, I assume you never work on Saturday (23:3), shave or trim your beard (19:27), allow your hair to become untidy (10:6), remain seated in the presence of the elderly (19:32), mistreat a foreigner (19:33-34), wear polyester-cotton clothing (19:19), or eat fat, chicken, pork, or shellfish (3:17, 11:4-7, 11:10-12).
Most Christians pick and choose which of the rules in Leviticus they need to follow. They use various illogical justifications to explain why they break some rules, but if God is eternal, unchanging, and all-knowing, why did he bother giving the rules to the Jews in the first place?
I'm not surprised it's hard for you to accept the petty nonsense of Leviticus as reflecting the sort of things an all-powerful cosmic deity is really concerned about.
The solution is simple: accept that the Bible is all bullshit.
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Well most people say it's a sin to be homosexual or transgender.
Leviticus contains two well known statements about homosexual activity:
You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination. (Leviticus 18:22)
If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them. (Leviticus 20:13)
This is not to say that homosexual desire is the only thing that God did not originally intend. All of our desires have been distorted by sin. But Paul does describe both lesbian and male homosexual behaviour as “unnatural.” Some have argued this refers to what is natural to the people themselves, so that what is in view is heterosexual people engaging in homosexual activity and thereby going against their “natural” orientation. According to this view, Paul is not condemning all homosexual behaviour, but only that which goes against the person’s own sexual inclinations.
For transgender people
A woman is not to wear male clothing, and a man is not to put on a woman's garment, for everyone who does these things is detestable to the LORD your
This really is hard for people like me to accept. Especially if you have severe dysphoria.
All I'm saying is most people don't agree with OP is because most people are Christian. This is what they believe.
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First, "most people" are not Christian. Only about a third of the world's population is Christian.
If you believe God wants you to follow the rules in Leviticus, I assume you never work on Saturday (23:3), shave or trim your beard (19:27), allow your hair to become untidy (10:6), remain seated in the presence of the elderly (19:32), mistreat a foreigner (19:33-34), wear polyester-cotton clothing (19:19), or eat fat, chicken, pork, or shellfish (3:17, 11:4-7, 11:10-12).
Most Christians pick and choose which of the rules in Leviticus they need to follow. They use various illogical justifications to explain why they break some rules, but if God is eternal, unchanging, and all-knowing, why did he bother giving the rules to the Jews in the first place?
I'm not surprised it's hard for you to accept the petty nonsense of Leviticus as reflecting the sort of things an all-powerful cosmic deity is really concerned about.
The solution is simple: accept that the Bible is all bullshit.