Where in the bible does it say being transgender is wrong?

Answer 1

First answer:

The Apostle Paul, writing by inspiration of the Holy Spirit, declares that homosexuality "shall not inherit the kingdom of God" (I Corinthians 6:9; 10). Now Paul does *not* single out the homosexual as a special offender. He includes fornicators, idolators, adulterers, thieves, covetous persons, drunkards, revilers and extortioners. And then he adds the comment that some of the Christians at Corinth had been delivered from these very practices: "And such were some of you: But ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the spirit of our God" (I Corinthians 6:11). All of the sins mentioned in this passage are condemned by God, but just as there was hope in Christ for the Corinthians, so is there hope for all of us. Homosexuality is an illicit lust forbidden by God. He said to His people Israel, "Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination" (Leviticus 18:22). "If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them" (Leviticus 20:13). In these passages homosexuality is condemned as a prime example of sin, a sexual perversion. The Christian can neither alter God's viewpoint nor depart from it.Leviticus 20:13 "If man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death: their blood shall be upon them" - KJVMost of the Biblical references involving homosexuality are 'minor' references where the matter is treated either in passing or where a directive is ambiguous. However there are at least two references that seem very explicit in the condemnation of homosexuality - that in: 1 Corinthians Chapter 6 and Romans Chapter 1.

Verses 9-11 of chapter 6 of 1 Corinthians seem on face value to make it perfectly clear that neither the wicked, the sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, male prostitutes, thieves, greedy, drunkards, slanderers, swindlers nor homosexuals would 'enter the Kingdom of God'. In Romans the condemnation seems even more explicit. We are told that the unrighteous have turned to 'shameful lusts' [Rom 1:24] and that homosexual practices were being indulged in by women too - the only explicit reference to lesbianism in the New Testament. We are told that those men who indulged in same-sex relationships are indulging in 'perversions' [Rom 1:27] and received the 'due penalty'. Paul then includes these in a similar list of wrong-doers - even longer than that seen in 1 Corinthians.

Another answer:

First of all, The Bible doesn't identify people as homosexual or gay. It identifies their behavior; however it does describe homosexual behavior. The Bible clearly indicates that people who practice homosexuality are in sin, but that the way is open for them, as for other sinners, to turn from their sin and be forgiven if they trust in Christ's sacrifice as payment for their sins.

• In Leviticus 18:22 we read: Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind; it is abomination.
• In Romans 1 26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: 27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
• In 1Timothy 1, homosexuals are equated with lawless, disobedient, ungodly, sinners, murderers, kidnappers and liars.
• In 1 Corinthians 6, they are described as among the unrighteous, such as fornicators, idolators, adulterers, effeminate, thieves, drunkards, covetous, revilers, extortioners, who will not inherit the kingdom of God. But it further states, speaking to Christians "And such were some of you, but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God."
• 1 Corinthians 6:9 says "Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God?...nor homosexual offenders."

Another PerspectiveYou have to look at the verses in context to see what they actually say.

First, a reference in the the Levitical Law (Leviticus 18:22) condemned 'lying with a man as with a woman' as it was imperative that the Jewish nation should increase in number, and any form of sex that went against God's rule for Noah (..."go forth and multiply"...) was frowned upon.

However, these Laws were written for a particular people at a particular moment of time, and not God's Law for all time. If this were so, then Christians would not eat pork nor shellfish, all Christian men would be circumcised, not wear two sorts of cloth and stone adulterers!

As for the reference in 1 Corinthians, again we have to look at the context. Corinth in those days was a hotbed of sex, debauchery, paganism and crime, where it was a case of 'anything goes', sexually, spiritually and morally. And in the midst of all that was a small Christian church that was having difficulties that Paul was addressing.

Among these problems was the fact that some of the Church professed to be Christian but still engaged in pagan rituals. It was this Paul was speaking out against rather than a loving committed homosexual relationship.

In this verse the English translates as 'homosexual offenders', but the original Greek Paul used, the word was or 'homosexual pagan temple prostitutes'. Some of the Christians saw nothing wrong in visiting these and yet remaining Christian. It was against the arsenokoi that Paul was protesting and he was more concerned with paganism than homosexuality.

There are similar incidences (eg in Romans) where some claim that Paul was speaking out against homosexuals as we would know them today, but again looking at the context and the original Greek nothing is further from the truth. Christ himself had nothing to say on the matter. And those who cherry-pick scripture to somehow 'prove' that the Bible says homosexuals are evil are either plain wrong, or are using their version of scripture to somehow lend credence to their own prejudices.

Leviticus. Of course, Leviticus also says that if you discover your wife isn't a virgin she should be stoned.

Answer 2

Transgender people are never mentioned in the Bible.