Christians cannot accept the transvestite lifestyle which is now commonly referred to as transgenderism.
True practicing Christians take to heart the very words in the Bible as God's word. In Deuteronomy, which is also is in the Jewish book the Torah, God is quite clear "The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the Lord the God."
Now for you heathens that want to use the weak argument about Christians eating pork or shellfish, you need to have an understanding of
biblical covenants.
A covenant is a binding solemn agreement made between two
parties. It generally leaves each with obligations. But it holds only between
the parties involved.
There are a number of biblical covenants: Noahic, Abrahamic,
Sinaitic (Old), Davidic and New.
Under the Noahic covenant, which God made with all living
human beings (Genesis 9:8-17), people were able to eat anything:
‘Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you.
Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything’ (Genesis 9:3).
But under the Sinaitic (Old) Covenant, which God made with
the nation of Israel, people were able to eat certain foods, but not others.
These are listed in detail in Leviticus 11:1-47 and Deuteronomy 14:1-21).
However these laws were applicable only to the nation of
Israel and were intended to set them apart from other races.
The Old (Sinaitic) Covenant was made after Israel’s
deliverance from Egypt and involved laws, priests (all of whom were members of
the tribe of Levi) and a sacrificial system based on animal sacrifice. It was
aimed at protecting Israel from God’s wrath and judgement.
The nation of Israel, however, was unable to keep the
requirements of the Old Covenant, meaning that a New Covenant was necessary, as
foretold by the prophet Jeremiah:
‘“The days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will make
a new covenant with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah. It will
not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors when I took them by the
hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they broke my covenant, though I was a
husband to them,” declares the Lord.“This is the covenant I will make with the
people of Israel after that time,” declares the Lord.“I will put my law in
their mind and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be
my people. No longer will they teach their neighbour, or say to one another,
‘Know the Lord,’because they will all know me, from the least of them to the
greatest, declares the Lord. “For I will forgive their wickedness and will
remember their sins no more.”’ (Jeremiah 31:31-34)
Jesus said that he had come to fulfil the ‘Law and the
Prophets’ (Matthew 5:17; Luke 24:44). He would establish this new covenant with
new laws, with himself as high priest based on his own sacrificial death on the
cross.
This new covenant would completely deal with sin (Hebrews
10:1-18) and protect all those who put their faith in him from God’s wrath and
judgement (See more on this here).
‘In the same way, after the supper (Jesus) took the cup,
saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for
you”’ (Luke 22:20). ‘…we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body
of Jesus Christ once for all’ (Hebrews 10:10)
People would come under the protection of this new covenant,
not by virtue of belonging to the nation of Israel, but through faith in
Christ. In fact the function of the Old Testament Law (Sinaitic covenant) was
to point to Christ as its fulfilment.
‘So the law was our guardian until Christ came that we might
be justified by faith. Now that this faith has come, we are no longer under a
guardian. So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, for all
of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There
is neither Jew nor Gentile…’ (Galatians 3:24-28)
The Apostle Paul makes this very clear in saying:
‘I myself am not under the law… though I am not free from
God’s law but am under Christ’s law’ (1 Corinthians 9:20, 21)
So what then did Christ say about foods? He pronounced all
foods clean for his followers to eat:
‘ “Don’t you see that nothing that enters a person from the
outside can defile them? For it doesn’t
go into their heart but into their stomach, and then out of the body.” (In
saying this, Jesus declared all foods clean.) He went on: “What comes out of a
person is what defiles them. For it is
from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual
immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed,
malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. All these evils come from inside and defile a
person.” (Mark 7:18-23)
Jesus was making that point that under the new covenant God
required purity of the heart. Internal thoughts and attitudes were as important
as external actions. Consistent with
this God commanded the apostle Peter to eat food that was forbidden under the Old
Covenant:
‘Then a voice told him, “Get up, Peter. Kill and eat.”
“Surely not, Lord!” Peter replied. “I have never eaten anything impure or
unclean.” The voice spoke to him a second time, “Do not call anything impure
that God has made clean.” (Acts 10:13-15)
Similarly the apostle Paul taught that all foods were
admissible under the New Covenant:
‘(hypocritical liars)… order them to abstain from certain
foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe
and who know the truth. For everything
God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with
thanksgiving, because it is consecrated
by the word of God and prayer.’ (1 Timothy 4:2-5)
So Christians can eat anything, including shellfish.
But what about sex?
The Bible, consistently throughout, teaches that sex is only
permissible within a marriage between a man and a woman. This principle is
first laid down during the creation narrative:
‘a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his
wife, and they become one flesh’ (Genesis 2:24)
It is upheld in the Old Covenant and in great detail every
sexual act outside this pattern is listed as off limits in Leviticus 18 and 20.
Jesus upholds the same principle in his teaching on marriage
(Matthew 19:1-12) and its importance is emphasized to Gentile Christians (Acts
15:19,20) and repeatedly emphasized in the teaching of the apostles.
‘It is God’s will that you should be sanctified: that you
should avoid sexual immorality; that each of you should learn to control your
own body in a way that is holy and honorable,
not in passionate lust like the pagans, who do not know God; and that in this matter no one should wrong
or take advantage of a brother or sister. The Lord will punish all those who
commit such sins, as we told you and warned you before. For God did not call us to be impure, but to
live a holy life. (1 Thessalonians 4:3-7)
In fact in the very last book of the Bible we are told that
the unrepentant ‘sexually immoral’ will not enter heaven (Revelation 21:8,
22:15)
Now God gives man free will whether to believe in him or not and to follow his word or not. So if one wants to live in Biblical sin, that is their will. However under God's law and for you non-believers --natural law, you cannot force another to accept your unGodly and unnatural behavior.
