LOL i am a sinner!!! like a major sinner! but not from being ts....
i am not religious but, i came across some religious
stuff in our defense. you might find it interesting...
"Neither this man nor his parents sinned," said Jesus, "but this happened so that the work of God might be displayed in his life. [The Bible, John, 9:3].
"... in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you." [Matthew 7:1]
AND there is this reference....
In the Hebrew scriptures, consider Deborah, the warrior, poet and judge of Israel. The eunuch in Queen Esther's court (without whom, the entire story would have fallen apart), and the role of eunuchs in the downfall of Jezebel. We have God's promise to eunuch's in Isaiah that they will have a part in the temple (something excluded by the Levitical law).
And then there is this obscure reference in a critical passage in Mark 14.:
So he sent two of his disciples, telling them, "Go into the city, and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him. Say to the owner of the house he enters, 'The Teacher asks: Where is my guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?' He will show you a large upper room, furnished and ready. Make preparations for us there."
This "man carrying a jar of water" is curious, because typically this was the exclusive work of women and children in Jesus' time (as it was in Zambia when I lived there as a missionary). I imagine it might have be more rare to witness such a man then, than being told to look for and follow a man today in a US city carrying a large flowered purse.
Why was this man carrying water? Why was he acting outside of the prescribed gender roles? It must have been rare or else the disciples could have followed any number of men instead of this one. We don't know, but it raises interesting questions.
AND there is this argument, although i would never describe myself - or any of you - as eunuchs...
The only inference one can make relates to trans women who were those eunuchs who had themselves castrated (not born eunichoid — intersex — or forced into eunuchood). Isaiah and, I believe, Jesus speak approvingly of these individuals, considering them worthy of a monument and a name "better than sons and daughters," an "everlasting name" that shall not perish (Isaiah 56:5).
so all you biblical scholars, have fun with all that. i don't own one. i just don't trust the men who did the interpretation or the translation....
