Category: Biblical Theology

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Boundary Violations Are NOT Christian

Christians may not agree with everything they hear in the YouTube video below, but we surely mustn’t deny bodily reality.

God doesn’t.

God created us as embodied beings, with limits. God became an embodied being, as the Second Person of the Trinity. God was raised and ascended to heaven as an embodied being. God will return as an embodied being. At which time God will put the bi-natured creation back in order. Which is to say, God will remarry heaven and earth, invisible with visible, soul with body, in an imperishable eschatological embrace.

Then the loving limit placed upon the Second Person of the Trinity, for the world’s sake, will end.

1 Cor 15:24-28 NRSV

Then comes the end, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father, after he has destroyed every ruler and every authority and power. 25 For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. 26 The last enemy to be destroyed is death. 27 For “God has put all things in subjection under his feet.” But when it says, “All things are put in subjection,” it is plain that this does not include the one who put all things in subjection under him. 28 When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to the one who put all things in subjection under him, so that God may be all in all.

Zechariah 14:8-9 NRSV

On that day living waters shall flow out from Jerusalem, half of them to the eastern sea and half of them to the western sea; it shall continue in summer as in winter. 9 And YAHWEH will become king over all the earth; on that day YAHWEH will be one and his name one.

We dare not forget all of that. And the LOVING LIMITS God placed on each of us. If we ever learned it.

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Names Are Conventional, Pronouns Are Not

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Doctrinal Note On The Moral Limits To Technological Manipulation Of The Human Body

From the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. Issued this week.

Regarding treatments for what is termed ‘gender dysphoria‘ or ‘gender incongruence.’”

“These interventions involve the use of surgical or chemical techniques that aim to exchange the sex characteristics of a patient’s body for those of the opposite sex or for simulations thereof,” they wrote. “In the case of children, the exchange of sex characteristics is prepared by the administration of chemical puberty blockers, which arrest the natural course of puberty and prevent the development of some sex characteristics in the first place.”

The bishops explained that these interventions ARE NOT morally justified. The two situations where it’s okay to use technology on the human body is:

1) to fix something that’s not working right, or
2) to sacrifice a part of the body for the benefit of the whole body.

“Instead … these interventions are intended to transform the body so as to make it take on as much as possible the form of the opposite sex, contrary to the natural form of the body,” the bishops said. “They are attempts to alter the fundamental order and finality of the body and to replace it with something else.”

“Such interventions, thus, do not respect the fundamental order of the human person as an intrinsic unity of body and soul, with a body that is sexually differentiated….Bodiliness is a fundamental aspect of human existence, and so is the sexual differentiation of the body.”

Also they offered guidance for Catholic health care.

“Catholic health care services must not perform interventions, whether surgical or chemical, that aim to transform the sexual characteristics of a human body into those of the opposite sex or take part in the development of such procedure,” they said. “They must employ all appropriate resources to mitigate the suffering of those who struggle with gender incongruence, but the means used must respect the fundamental order of the human body.”

“Only by using morally appropriate means do healthcare providers show full respect for the dignity of each human person.”

Source: United States Conference of Catholic Bishops

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Defend True Love

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Fr. Kirby Speaks Loving Truth

Love and Transgenderism

Sunday Mass – Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church, Indian Land SC – April 16, 2023

John 1:14

And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father’s only son, full of grace and truth.

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Embrace, Don’t Affirm – Podcast

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Love Refuses To Affirm Confusion