GOD ONLY KNOWS.

<p>God only knows. Proverbs 16:9 New International Version</p> <p>verse , 9 In their heart’s humans plan their course, but the Lord establishes their steps.</p> <p>The Deepening Crisis in Evangelical Christianity</p> <p>BREAKING News : A court has ruled Jack Phillips should be punished for not designing a cake celebrating a gender transition, an act that would violate his conscience? </p> <p>Jack has been enduring this harassment for a decade and it must STOP.   The Bible nowhere explicitly mentions transgenderism or describes anyone as having transgender feelings. However, the Bible has plenty to say about human sexuality. </p> <p>Most basic to our understanding of gender is that God created two (and only two) genders: “male and female He created them” (Genesis 1:27). All the modern-day speculation about numerous genders or gender fluidity—or even a gender “continuum” with unlimited genders—is foreign to the Bible.</p> <p>The closest the Bible comes to mentioning transgenderism is in its condemnations of homosexuality (Romans 1:18–32; 1 Corinthians 6:9–10) and transvestitism (Deuteronomy 22:5). </p> <p>The Greek word often translated “homosexual offenders” or “male prostitutes” in 1 Corinthians 6:9 literally means “effeminate men.” So, while the Bible does not explicitly mention transgenderism, when it mentions other instances of gender “confusion,” it clearly and explicitly identifies them as sin.</p> <p> No matter if the gender distortion has a genetic, hormonal, physiological, psychological, or spiritual cause, it can be overcome and healed through faith in Christ and continued reliance on the power of the Holy Spirit. Healing can be received, sin can be overcome, and lives can be changed through the salvation that Jesus provides, even if there are biological/physiological factors. </p> <p>The Corinthian believers are an example of such a change: “And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by th