The Bible is crystal clear when it comes to gender: “Male and female he created them” (Genesis 1:27). So what can you do when God’s clear truth clashes with your desires? Well, you have two choices: Conform your thinking to God’s Word (we can overcome every temptation in Christ) or ignore God’s Word. And here’s how one transgender “pastor” decided to ignore God’s Word so she could continue to hold to her transgender identity.
This “pastor” was asked during an interview on CBS Mornings how she (yes, she is a woman who identifies as a man) handles people who claim God’s Word is clear that he created male and female. Her response was to claim that, well, the Bible “wasn’t written for 2024.”
It’s hard to relate [the Bible] to modern-day times because it wasn’t written for 2024. It was written for then. When we read in the Scripture that God created man and woman, yes, and God created everyone else as well.
Now, there are many verses of Scripture that tell us that God’s Word stands forever! It is for all people for all time.
God created male and female—and he didn’t create gender on a spectrum. That is an idea grounded in modern psychology which says biology doesn’t matter and truth is determined by subjective feelings about self. Such an idea is foreign to the pages of Scripture. Instead, we’re specifically told not to trust our own feelings or wisdom because our hearts lie to us:
Jeremiah 17:9 KJV – “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?”
Proverbs 3:5 KJV – “Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.”
But what about her claim that the Bible “wasn’t written for 2024”? This denies the eternality of the Bible—that it was written for all people, in all times. The Scriptures are not just a collection of man-made writings. No, the Bible is the very Word of God, and it is eternal. Scripture is clear on this:
Isaiah 40:8 KJV – “The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.”
Matthew 5:18 KJV – “For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.”
Psalm 119:89 KJV – “For ever, O Lord, thy word is settled in heaven.”
In claiming that the Bible wasn’t written for 2024, this woman is incredibly dismissive of the very words of God. She’s putting her own wisdom, her own desires, her own thinking, above God’s Word. Really, she’s trying to be her own god, buying into the lie from the garden, “Did God actually say . . . ?” (Genesis 3:1).
What a contrast to the attitude David had regarding God’s Word: “With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments. Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee… It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes. The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver… For ever, O Lord, thy word is settled in heaven… How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth! Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path” (Psalm 119:10–11, 71–72, 89, 103, 105).
When it comes to God’s Word, we must have the humility David had, understanding that God’s Word is good and a wonderful blessing to us and that God’s Word must shape our thinking.
As fallible human beings, we should never conform the Word of God to our thinking—no, we conform our thinking to God’s perfect Word!
