This week I feel the Holy Spirit moving in me to share what’s on my heart about His son, and His love for us. Before I do so, I want to let you know about a wonderful blog I just discovered this evening called First Born Son. The author Omar is wonderfully in touch with the word of God, and the intentions of Jesus and shares his thoughts in a well written and often humorous manner.
The crossdresser is doomed
God cannot save her. In response to my recent post on why do men cross dress, Katie shared some of her thoughts about verses in the Bible that perhaps shouldn’t be taken at face value. It’s worth a read, and as you’ll see, verses such as Lev 1:9, Lev 15:19-24, Lev 25:44, Lev 11:10 and Lev 19:27 clearly demonstrate that there are parts of the Bible that are not directly applicable in the modern context. The verses vilify seafood, allow slavery and command against a good haircut.
Swimming within a sea of verses specific to the culture and society of the times, we encounter Deuteronomy 22:5 – the Christian Crossdressers kryptonite (try saying that three times fast!). The church doesn’t seem to have a problem dismissing all the verses in Leviticus, yet for some reason holds on to the verse against crossdressing. Strange. Who got to decide?
I digress though, I did not mean to
Lament about Christianity and Crossdressing
I’ve come to realize that no matter how long you stray from God, He is there waiting for you. I found it amazing, as I read through my Bible this evening how close I felt to God. It had been a while, and I’ve been going through some struggles reconciling my support for a church that has different political beliefs. Like a rush of water, or a warm ray of sunshine I could feel my heart drawing closer to God as I immersed myself in His word.
God’s word is more than just a book – it is a living and ever adapting expression of His will for us and His love. Tonight I am encouraged, because I know that in the grand scheme of things
God will not disown me for cross-dressing
Try Him. Spent some time searching for Him and He will show up. There is nothing like His presence to still a frantic heart, to bring rest to a weary soul.
May the weekend be filled with love for all of you.
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You are right that God pours out grace from his Word. He pours it forth out most in his Gospel doesn’t he? The fact that, sinful as you and I are he forgives us is just incredible! That the Son of God should die for us! God’s Word says that since he saved us from sin, we must discover what his way is for it is full of blessing. In light of this, I would humbly suggest that crossdressing is not in line with God’s Word. We must realise that there is 100% continuity between Old and New Testament. Jesus… Read more »
@Rick Varnel: Thanks for your comment, and thanks for sharing your thoughts with readers of Crossdresser Heaven. It’s wonderful to have the opportunity for open discussion with other Christians who are not part of the transgendered community. You are so right, that when I consider all the sins I’ve committed (heck, just in the last week if I use Jesus’ standard for sin and obeying the commandments) it’s somewhat overwhelming. It’s such a tremendous blessing to know that we are sanctified through His grace and sacrifice for something we could never hope to pay the cost of. So much that… Read more »
Easy to see I have found your posts several years after your posting of them yet I find need to reply or ask questions. I get deliberate deception and I can see how a male dressing as a female to look as a female can be seen as deliberate deception. The problem I have is with, WHY are those that have asked Christ the son of God to be their savior, to forgive them of their sins, believing that Christ is the Son of God and the only way to join God’s family (be reunited ) not relieved from the… Read more »
And if i get my clithes from places that make these styles for me
Clithes for men like dresses skirts heels and i use no make up and dont dress for sexual gratification then your arguments break down and are only man made opinion though you make good arguments
It seems good to me that we have started every point in our discussion by praising Jesus once more. He took all our sins on the tree as if they were his. Praise be to him! You’re right, our society has some sins that it rank higher than others. It seems to me people always rank highest the sins they don’t commit. I don’t know if there is a ranking, all I know is if you break one part of the law you break it all and you need a saviour. What I’ve been realising recently is that the Bible… Read more »
Good explanation
I m starting to really feel the way you do about this issue
Human beings determine what clothing and styles are male and female
In the Name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit I’m not sure how I missed this thread but I would be remiss if I didn’t put my two cents in. There is so much going on here and Tim, I respect your views, but pretty much disagree with most of your interpretations. Christ did come to fulfill the law,this much is true, but He came to fulfill all laws, whether God deemed them an abomination or not. I guess our first disagreement would be on the point of what fulfillment means to you and what it means to me.… Read more »
How do you deal with a male wearing “women’s" clothing and a male doing whatever – eg: wearing “women’s" clothes, make-up, accessories to look like a woman to others that see them ?
Hello, Let me first say that in the times of the Old Testament clothing for men and women was identical. However men used to wear untreated cloth, usually sand or earth coloured. Women were wearing cloth that was quite primitivaly treated, either bleached or dyed blue. You still can see that in the traditional statues of the Virgin Mary. She is almost always in blue and white. The old Israelites had not mastered the art of colouring cloth. Dyed cloth in red, purple, yellow or green was a sign of wealth and had to be imported, even fom India or… Read more »
Gabriel, you are so right. Mankind has for centuries attempted to dictate what is right or wrong, usually to his own detriment. God said only two things. Love God and love one another as He has loved us. That in itself pretty well sums it all up. All the rules and regulations are mans feble attempt to one up God, or to “interpret" what He meant. Nice try. Predjuce and bigotry are products of ignorance and misinformation. I personally have no buisness condemning anyone for thier personal lifestyle. That is between a person and his God. We have an important… Read more »
so true…everyone needs to stop making us live to what they want and worry about themselves…I am an ordained minister and a lifelong crossdresser wanting to start a church for cd, tg,tv,ts,and anyone else who loves God but is turned away from the church!
Reading through this post and the comments it seems like the majority of the disagreement is how we view the Old Testament law as Christians. That is a very tricky thorny issue, perhaps one of the most debated and misunderstood aspects of the Christian faith. It’s something that even Christians have no idea about much of the time because they aren’t taught enough about it. In my post on Deuteronomy 22:5 here – http://healingcd.wordpress.com/2011/10/24/deuteronomy-225/ I explain how to view the Old Testament law. It’s not the only possible Christian view of how to view the OT law, but I think… Read more »
Good explanation
I m starting to really feel the way you do about this issue
Human beings determine what clothing and styles are male and female
The thing about Christianity is that it is personal. A personal relationship with the living God. The blood of the sacrifice of Jesus assures us of this. Theren is only one sin in the Gospels that Jesus himself says is unforgivable and that is blaspheming the Holy Spirit. The lyrics to a song called “I am new" say this: “Dearly beloved, forgiven in Christ, made in the image of the giver of life. Righteous and holy. Born and remade, accepted and worthy, this is our new name." I am a christian who is also a TG. How can I be… Read more »
Satan must be laughing at the amount of sinful factions and dissensions that have arisen out of an improper understanding Deuteronomy 22:5. I took a look at this verse and came to the conclusion that the difference between male and female is first and foremost, the difference between the Church and and her Husband, namely God. The Church’s role is first and foremost to receive God her Husband’s plan for salvation through Jesus Christ. Her role is not to sew fig leaves together in hopes of obtaining some false righteousness that comes from the clothes we invent with our own… Read more »
Hi great thread, I too am a born-again Christian, and I have some questions that I’ve been struggling with, trying to find an answer, and mean no offense to anyone who reads this. Reading the Bible and what it has to say about gender roles, what about post-op transsexuals (male to female especially)? Since the idea of asking forgiveness is that you try never to do that sin again, is that something that transsexuals can be forgiven for, [since according to the Bible there would be issues here with transsexuals changing their gender roles from what God assigned to them,… Read more »
For those here who don’t seem to understand, what the Bible tells us to do is to “tell the truth in love". We are to not only save the lost but help guide them from wrong; we’re commanded not just to love everyone but also to try to model our lives after Jesus and his teachings as much as is humanly possible. You mention not judging. Depends on what type of judging you’re talking about. We’re commanded against judging someone’s heart because only God knows everyone’s hearts, but at the same time we’re commanded to watch over our brethren and… Read more »
Well. For me. I want a hope. Perhaps people don’t acept our presence, but GOD, He is like to love us.
God bless you, Vanessa. I like you blog, living in Brazil, were the nation is very religious, and crossdressers don’t be acept by cristian society.
Thank you.