.... Assuming the existence of a soul, the debate regarding transgenderism being 'against God's plan' loses me based on the fact that I have never, in all my life, heard any argument that states that a soul has a gender. In all my time learning within the church, I have been told that a soul is born of God, and a body born of earth. But I have also been told that God is genderless. If God is genderless, why would we assume our notions of gender are anything more than the biological side of our existence, something which would disappear upon our exit from this existence? When it has been scientifically proven that gender identity is prone to natural mistakes, hormone fluctuations and errors, why would we think that it is 'concrete' in God's eyes?
1st off.... speaking about things that lose someone, why are these changes always considdered
"Natural Mistakes, Hormone Fluctuations and Errors?" Whoever claimed these things were errors or mistakes in the first place?
To answer that myself, I feel people see these things as mistakes and errors because of what they were told in their religions as
"normal." In other words, it's a generalization what what humans should be based on the majority.... male / female and straight, because that is what everybody was acustomed to. Anybody who thought or acted any differently were flawed, mistakes, sins.... monsters if you will.
Everybody assumes God is a male, because of what was described in Genisis, where he created Adam in his image 1st.... therefore people assume God is a man.... then Eve came along, which seems to be open to all kinds of debates, including which came first, Adam or Eve, was the story influenced based on the era it was written down, etc.
Maybe we're all supposed to have various sexual preferences and bodies to our minds.... but perhaps due to humanity's triat of attacking and ridiculing things they are ignorant or afraid of, one could simply say that they decided to dictate what is right and wrong based on their own comfort levels.
Take Iran for example and how they claim there are no homosexuals in their country.... yet they continue to hold public executions of those they found guilty of being gay. Just because someone says something, doesn't make it true.
2ndly..... If one is supposed to take the Bible as it is written, and people dictate that being gay or transgendered is wrong.... then how do those same people explain how the human population grew based on two people? In order for that to happen, eventually humans would have to be required to perform incest within the family lines..... and that's supposed to be wrong.... so what's up with that?
Speaking of wrong things....
Now.... in regards to a soul/spirit having a gender prior to birth, that I can not directly agree with, as there is no evidence proving this.
The way I see it, is that your conciousness, personality and identity is something that remains with your through your various lifetimes.... but it is your parent's genetic makeup that determines what gender you will become in your new life. That genetic list of instructions on how you are going to be formed is what determines how your conviousness, personality and identity will form over your new lifetime.
In other words, how the DNA structures your brain patterns and physical form via Estrogen or Testosterone is what forms your overall preferences in sexuality and mentality. If you were born in a female physical body, however various mental portions of your mind that determine how much testosterone and estrogen are not matching the
"Normal" pattern, then you are going to have some chance that you're going to turn out leaning towards a homosexual trend in your life.
Your physical body, in struture, is the vessel that carries your conciousness / soul / spirit, and your conciousness/soul/spirit is directly affected to the chemical and physical reactions to your physical body. When you die, your spirit/soul leaves this broken vessel and returns to where it came from filled with your entire life experiences to add to the overall collective of universal knowlege built up by not just yourself, by everything else in creation, for at least since the creation of this universe.
Nobody's life is going to be perfect, everybody is going to have their own difficulties and trials to overcome.... this includes sexual orientation. Nobody's life is the exact same as another persons through and through and chances are, your next life after this one won't be the same either. Even if you did attempt to select an identical life for the next time through.... time itself will have changed it's outcome, due to where you will be born, what gender you will become, the technological advancements and environmental factors at play, etc...... you could be born the exact same gender, hair color, and loving family, but time in itself has enough effect to change your life's overall outcome, among many other factors.
I've posted my personal beliefs of what I think existence is, what our purpose for living is, and many other concepts that relate in other forums in the past
(Not sure if I posted them here) but in my belief, I am who I am today, but when I die, anything after that is up for grabs. Will I ever come back? If I do, will I still be a human? Would I even be the same gender? Would I even still be connected to the family I grew up with in this lifetime and possibly become my own ancestor?
In other words, would I come back as a straight-Irish-male.... or will I come back as a homosexual-female-Beaver?
If we do come back to this existence over time, I sure as heck don't want to continually spend it as a male, and I am sure that eventually I would like to experience what it is to be a female.... and then back to male again....
So my short answer is No.... I don't believe our gender is directly connected to our souls/spirits.
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