"For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth." (Isaiah 62:1)

Thursday, August 28, 2008

Template or Temple?

A recent column in an east coast newspaper, syndicated across America, took a light-hearted look at one of the most disturbing of modern issues: sex realignment surgery and the resultant impact on a new life.

One comment that is central in the column points to the very core of the issue facing humanity today. Ms. Goodman wrote: “It is only recently that we began to look at the human body as a template to be altered as we please.” Oh? Altered as we please? Who gives us that right?

The Great God of the universe who created that human template has His own view of this type of human reasoning. The subject of transsexualsim cannot be found in the Bible. But God does deal with sexual perversion (Leviticus 20:13; Romans 1:21–22, 26–29), and transvestism (cross dressing for sexual purposes, Deuteronomy 22:5), all of which He condemns.

Yes, our human bodies are templates, and yes, changes will occur to them, but not for the perverted reasons individuals may consider on their own: “But as it is written:
‘Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him’” (1 Corinthians 2:9).

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