The transgender issue is a first order gospel issue
from Christian Concern:
The Church of England bishops recently passed on responsibility for crafting liturgies celebrating gender reassignment to local clergy. This article by Carys Moseley shows that in doing this they perpetuate fundamental theological errors such as blasphemy, rebellion against God as Creator, dishonouring parents, and renaming God. The transgender pathway is shown to be a counterfeit of the Christian gospel. This will affect people’s trust in the clergy as well as the integrity of theological training. Repentance for colluding with transgender ideology is the Church of England’s only hope before God.
The Church of England bishops recently issued a press statement after the Mail on Sunday leaked the fact that they had voted behind closed doors last month to reject a ‘baptism-style’ liturgy to celebrate gender reassignment or ‘sex-change’. They invited clergy to use the already existing rite ‘Affirmation of Baptismal Faith’. New guidance on its use for transgender people is being prepared. Thus the bishops are perpetuating the falsehood of transgender ideology in liturgical dress, but passing the buck to the lower clergy. There are several very serious and insurmountable theological problems here which shall be outlined below.
Tacit collusion with blasphemy and rebellion against God as Creator
For the Church of England clergy at any level of the church hierarchy to allow the crafting of liturgy that affirms and celebrates gender reassignment means that the Church endorses gender reassignment as if God approves it. This is collusion with the blasphemous notion that someone can be ‘born in the wrong body’. It is blasphemous because it claims that God gave a person ‘the wrong body’, when the bodies of people suffering with gender dysphoria are usually perfectly healthy. Rather it is their minds and souls that are the site of suffering and confusion.
It is also collusion with hatred and resentment of the male or female body, something that goes directly against what God said when he created everything, namely that it was ‘very good’ (Genesis 1: 31). It is therefore an attack on the triune God as Creator of all things. The Christian faith makes no sense at all without the history of creation and fall.
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