Title: LGBTQ+, SCIENCE, AND CHRISTIANITY - MY OPINION
[[Part 1/4]] Some questions for anti-lgbtq+ (or just not supportive) Christians:
1. Do you believe that God, as the creator of the universe and everything within it, also created the laws of physics, logic, reality, and science? In order to create and keep order from chaos, you'd have to first create rules for your creation to follow, right? And then humans just discover, research, and understand this reality and science, correct?
2. Would you say you choose to follow and believe the facts and reality that evidence, science, and research finds, if they're made by God to be discovered by us humans? Whether or not they contradict or support the claims of the Bible?
3. Do you believe that the Bible, while still deeply important and relevant as it is God's inspired word, is NOT inherently a modern science textbook and shouldn't be taken as such, especially not over what actual modern science and facts are saying? For example, the story of Adam and Eve has a talking snake that once had legs until it was cursed to slither with no legs. Yet in reality, we have no scientific or historical evidence of talking animals or that snakes evolved in that specific way. So would you agree that for the sake of that story in Genesis, those details were just made up/exaggerated and aren't meant to be taken literally as straight up fact over what science says? Or that perhaps the Bible may include some details that at the time may have seemed supernatural but can now be explained through our modern scientific understanding and research, such as the big bang, or science being able to explain and understand between the lines if the Bible doesn't explicitly state it? I personally take science as explaining the "how" things work and happen, and would see the Bible as explaining "why" they work and happen that way from a theological perspective. I don't see them as mutually exclusive, but each has their own lanes that they work in and explain, and shouldn't be used to explain the other lane.
4. Do you believe that if someone rejects or denies their God-made identity and nature, if they go "well God made me like this/to be this but I don't wanna be that, so I'm going to choose to pretend to be this instead", that they'll then end up experiencing negative or adverse effects like worse mental and physical health? For example, God calls us to eat healthily and in moderation, and he gave us meats and fresh fruits and vegetables and nuts and beans and all that to eat. But if we reject that for what the world offers, cheap unhealthy, processed, junk food, and you overeat, then you'll most likely experience negative impacts of falling away from God's design for you and humans, right? Worse mental health, excess weight gain and other physical issues that can come with that, things like that.
5. On a similar vein, do you believe that if someone chooses to follow God's plan and design for them, following their God-made identity and nature, they'll experience less negative effects and more positive or beneficial ones, like an improved mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual health? For example, if someone stops their phone addiction and instead fills up that time scrolling with forming a relationship with God and spending time in nature that God made, their mental and physical health will improve, their attention span will heal, they won't constantly seek cheap unhealthy unsustainable dopamine and won't be as overwhelmed by the constant overstimulation without a break or rest for the brain from constant scrolling, and won't experience fomo the same?
-> If you're in agreement with all of those... Then why and how can you logically and realistically believe that being lgbtq+ is a sin that you must turn away from and repent for? Think about it.
Being lgbtq+ is scientifically not a choice and can't be consciousIy or forcibIy changed for most. It's completely naturaI, normaI, and naturaIIy occurring, since over 1,500 other animal species are also gay. Repressing and denying your sexuaIity and pretending to be cishet, like being forced to remain singIe and ceIibate for queer people or 'acceptlng your 'birth gender' and not transitioning/transitioning if you've already transitioned for trans people, can be detrimental and cause negative effects to one's heaIth, happiness, and weIIbeing, such as possibly worsened gender dysphoria; while acceptlng one's lgbtq+ identity and openly living as who they were meant to be (lgbtq+) and transitioning causes neutral or beneficial effects to one's heaIth, happiness, and weIIbeing, especiaIIy considering transitioning paired with expIorative and affirmative psychotherapy (aka trans acceptance) is the current most effective treatment for gender dysphoria. Therefore God had to have made us lgbtq+, and it seems to be how he created us to be in our nature.
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Title: LGBTQ+, SCIENCE, AND CHRISTIANITY - MY OPINION
[[Part 1/4]] Some questions for anti-lgbtq+ (or just
not supportive) Christians:
1. Do you believe that God, as the creator of the universe and everything within it, also created the laws of physics, logic, reality, and science? In order to create and keep order from chaos, you'd have to first create rules for your creation to follow, right? And then humans just discover, research, and understand this reality and science, correct?
2. Would you say you choose to follow and believe the facts and reality that evidence, science, and research finds, if they're made by God to be discovered by us humans? Whether or not they contradict or support the claims of the Bible?
3. Do you believe that the Bible, while still deeply important and relevant as it is God's inspired word, is NOT inherently a modern science textbook and shouldn't be taken as such, especially not over what actual modern science and facts are saying? For example, the story of Adam and Eve has a talking snake that once had legs until it was cursed to slither with no legs. Yet in reality, we have no scientific or historical evidence of talking animals or that snakes evolved in that specific way. So would you agree that for the sake of that story in Genesis, those details were just made up/exaggerated and aren't meant to be taken literally as straight up fact over what science says? Or that perhaps the Bible may include some details that at the time may have seemed supernatural but can now be explained through our modern scientific understanding and research, such as the big bang, or science being able to explain and understand between the lines if the Bible doesn't explicitly state it? I personally take science as explaining the "how" things work and happen, and would see the Bible as explaining "why" they work and happen that way from a theological perspective. I don't see them as mutually exclusive, but each has their own lanes that they work in and explain, and shouldn't be used to explain the other lane.
4. Do you believe that if someone rejects or denies their God-made identity and nature, if they go "well God made me like this/to be this but I don't wanna be that, so I'm going to choose to pretend to be this instead", that they'll then end up experiencing negative or adverse effects like worse mental and physical health? For example, God calls us to eat healthily and in moderation, and he gave us meats and fresh fruits and vegetables and nuts and beans and all that to eat. But if we reject that for what the world offers, cheap unhealthy, processed, junk food, and you overeat, then you'll most likely experience negative impacts of falling away from God's design for you and humans, right? Worse mental health, excess weight gain and other physical issues that can come with that, things like that.
5. On a similar vein, do you believe that if someone chooses to follow God's plan and design for them, following their God-made identity and nature, they'll experience less negative effects and more positive or beneficial ones, like an improved mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual health? For example, if someone stops their phone addiction and instead fills up that time scrolling with forming a relationship with God and spending time in nature that God made, their mental and physical health will improve, their attention span will heal, they won't constantly seek cheap unhealthy unsustainable dopamine and won't be as overwhelmed by the constant overstimulation without a break or rest for the brain from constant scrolling, and won't experience fomo the same?
-> If you're in agreement with all of those... Then why and how can you logically and realistically believe that being lgbtq+ is a sin that you must turn away from and repent for? Think about it.
Being lgbtq+ is scientifically not a choice and can't be consciousIy or forcibIy changed for most. It's completely naturaI, normaI, and naturaIIy occurring, since over 1,500 other animal species are also gay. Repressing and denying your sexuaIity and pretending to be cishet, like being forced to remain singIe and ceIibate for queer people or 'acceptlng your 'birth gender' and not transitioning/transitioning if you've already transitioned for trans people, can be detrimental and cause negative effects to one's heaIth, happiness, and weIIbeing, such as possibly worsened gender dysphoria; while acceptlng one's lgbtq+ identity and openly living as who they were meant to be (lgbtq+) and transitioning causes neutral or beneficial effects to one's heaIth, happiness, and weIIbeing, especiaIIy considering transitioning paired with expIorative and affirmative psychotherapy (aka trans acceptance) is the current most effective treatment for gender dysphoria.
Therefore God had to have made us lgbtq+, and it seems to be how he created us to be in our nature.
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