How do Christians explain the fact that there tend to be like over 10 different Gods in the earlier books of the Old Testament, with some of the God's representing individual God's in Caananite mythology such as Baal Hammon, which were translated sometime when Monothesism after the Babylonian captivity took place and they were changed to "Lord" or "my lord"? For example an appropriate translation for Elohim, the creator God in Genesis would be "God's and Goddesses" because the word had both masculine and feminine pronouns?
If the Bible isn't written from a polythesistic perspective then do you take the perspective of the Jewish mystics that God was androgynous and had both masculine and feminine energy? Then how you rationalize it with transgender people not being valid if God was composed of masculine and feminine energy and was essentially androgynous and we were made in God's image. Considering that the Old Testament laws were thrown out with the coming of Jesus, the only thing Jesus said about homosexuality was Matthew 19:11-12.
I don't believe in church dogma, and I'm not trying to be like "gotcha", I'm just genuinely curious how the church rationalizes this concept that God was an androgynous being composed of the both Masculine and the feminine with the conception that being transgender is somehow wrong or something and how you explain it?
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The jews turning to other gods is part of so many stories I don't think it's weird to assume some prehistoric jews were polytheistic.
Not only have you pointed out that Jesus did address homosexuality so I'm confused by your point, but homosexuality goes against the picture God has for us in the union of man and woman in marriage as one being. This is echoed throughout the Bible like with Adam and Eve or in Song of Songs. Both of these are actually illustrations of Christ and the Church which he takes as his bride.
You're not God. God is transcendent beyond biological s*x. He made you and he made you male. Genesis 1:27
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Genesis 1:27
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I can comment on this, there is an esoteric meaning not corresponding to seperation of Gender or gender identity as we understand but seperation between masculine and feminine in regards to energy, spiritual literature especially from the west is usually written so people read it from a material perspective but it has a higher perspective which corresponds to physics.
Masculine is energy that is activating and acts, and feminine is energy that is acted upon, stabilizing and gives form. I honestly can't be fricked to analyze the hebrew translation right now, but this is how the ancient Jewish mystics read the Bible which a lot of what they found analyzing the bible has and still is being verified by physicists.
It means we come from a universial source which seperated into two parts and differentiated as the energy became more and more material. It doesn't correspond to s*x, maybe loosely, but based on my experience with working with spirits, gender seems to be more fluid on the spiritual with masculine entities occasionally taking feminine forms and prefering feminine titles, or vice versa. I refer to the people that meditated on the meaning of Genesis in caves for decades.
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I'm going to find a good book to explain Kabbalah next, not new age Qabalah but a lot of the concepts are still being verified by physics and the Jewish mystics knew about the Big Bang centuries before we did.
Honestly, I can't be fricked to analyze a Hebrew translation now.
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Jesus never addressed homosexuality other than in Matthew 19:11-12 when a disciple asked about adultery and divorce and Jesus replied "accept this if you can accept it" depending on the translation.
A castrated bed guard didn't fit because the verse was on adultery and divorce and they didn't get married. You know who was also castrated back then? Homosexuals as punishment.
Paul invented his own term for homosexual with the root word man with the suffix "laying in bed" which was the first known historical usage of that term. It is likely that eunuch meant "homosexual" and was the pre-derived term.
Paul mentioned homosexuality, Jesus really didn't if you ignore the verse where he said "accept this if you can accept this". Paul wasn't Jesus. Paul may have been a disciple, but he was known to be conservative when compared to them, way more than the rest.
If you don't even know the difference between Paul and Jesus, you really need to learn your own book.
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Most people in the Bible weren't Jesus but they write the Word of God. It's not a pick-and-choose type deal.
You also didn't address my point of the mosaic that the Bible paints of heterosexual marriage.
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We disagree that they wrote the word of God, the Church places the word of Paul above Jesus claiming that when they contridict Paul's letters take precedence and I don't place much on the word of Paul saying that he wasn't Jesus.
Jesus taught to sinners. I would argue that Judas wasn't a great example of someone who was free of sin.
It's too easy just to be like "Oh, Paul wrote the word of God" when he wrote his letters so Paul is equivalent to Jesus, and I think it is a logical error. We might as well be building altars and worshipping Paul if we are just going to reject Jesus.
My personal opinion is that Paul corrupted Christianity and led the religion astray.
Because I nearly almost completely reject Paul's letters in my path, I cannot come up with a valid argument for something based upon his own letters.
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Just to clarify your opinion is that Christianity was "corrupted" by Paul in 15 years after Jesus, but you've found the hidden meaning on your own?
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Exactly.
I have met Jesus.
He's kind of ashamed of his "followers".
Don't accept what I say without question, follow your heart and your intuition but be willing to question.
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Jesus told me otherwise. Maybe he didn't feel you were ready yet
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Maybe I shouldn't have said followers, people that follow Jesus are rare.
He's ashamed of his religion and the people that misuse his name.
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Matthew 19:11-12
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