Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, ‘I will never leave you nor forsake you’<\/em>” (Hebrews 13:5).<\/p>\nBirth defects cause difficulties in a person’s life. Without repairs, they might not live or not live long or they might have trouble functioning in society. Repairing a birth defect improves a person. Changing what gender you appear to be is not an improvement.<\/p>\n
A person who goes through a sex change is merely disguising who they are. If you check a person’s DNA it would still say they are a man or a woman. All that changes are the outer features and those still would not function as in a real man or woman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Question: If God made man in His own image and said that it was excellent, then why are there birth defects, and isn’t fixing a birth defect the same as changing your gender if you’re homosexual? Answer: For your first question, see the sermon outline “Does God Make the Handicapped?“ No, birth defects and changing…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[916,305],"class_list":["post-24967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-answer","tag-handicapped","tag-transgenderism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26323,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/if-a-person-feels-they-should-be-a-different-sex-didnt-god-make-a-mistake\/","url_meta":{"origin":24967,"position":0},"title":"If a person feels they should be a different sex, didn’t God make a mistake?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"March 6, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: Hello there! You answered a question for me the other day on transgenderism. I have a few other questions, so this might get kind of long. Transsexuals will say that the body they were born into is a birth defect. How do we know for sure that's not the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Answer"","block_context":{"text":"Answer","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/answer\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":32857,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/why-did-god-forbid-priests-who-had-defects-from-serving\/","url_meta":{"origin":24967,"position":1},"title":"Why did God forbid priests who had defects from serving?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"March 2, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: In Leviticus 21:18, those people were not responsible for being that way. How can I explain this to others, especially that of a flat-nosed person? Answer: Many of the laws regarding worship under the Old Testament existed because they symbolically represented something under the New Testament. Thus, sacrifices had\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Answer"","block_context":{"text":"Answer","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/answer\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":26325,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/does-the-existence-of-intersex-justify-the-transgenders-claim-of-a-mistake\/","url_meta":{"origin":24967,"position":2},"title":"Does the existence of intersex justify the transgender’s claim of a mistake?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"March 4, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: If God does not make mistakes, then how do you explain people that are intersex? I'm not saying God makes mistakes, but I can see how easily someone could argue that since people that are intersex exist, then the gender they were born could easily be a mistake. Answer:\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Answer"","block_context":{"text":"Answer","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/answer\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":31318,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/how-do-we-know-for-sure-that-the-mentally-disabled-dont-need-to-be-baptized\/","url_meta":{"origin":24967,"position":3},"title":"How do we know for sure that the mentally disabled don\u2019t need to be baptized?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"January 29, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: Hello, I have a question. How do we know for sure that the mentally disabled don't need to be baptized? Nowhere in the Bible does it talk about them being baptized nor not being. A lot of people use the Scriptures and of the disciples not letting the children\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Answer"","block_context":{"text":"Answer","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/answer\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3132,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/didnt-jesus-say-some-are-born-homosexual\/","url_meta":{"origin":24967,"position":4},"title":"Didn’t Jesus say some are born homosexual?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"August 24, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: Didn't Jesus agree that some were born homosexual? You can see his thoughts on the matter if you read\u00a0Matthew 19:10-12. If you know the history of the words\u00a0saris\u00a0or\u00a0eunouchos,\u00a0you would know this. Answer: After explaining to his audience that marriage was a lifetime commitment between a man and a woman\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Answer"","block_context":{"text":"Answer","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/answer\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":51947,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/does-galatians-328-support-gender-diversity\/","url_meta":{"origin":24967,"position":5},"title":"Does Galatians 3:28 support gender diversity?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"November 19, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: Hi Mr. Hamilton, I've found out that a large number (possibly a majority) of my friends are LGBTQQIAA+. Some are genderqueer, transgender, gay, lesbian, pansexual, and asexual. A very large percentage of my year group is not straight or cisgender. I know that having homosexual sex is wrong. Should\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Answer"","block_context":{"text":"Answer","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/answer\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}