Trans Obfuscation and the Sovereign King

  There were two different terms used prior to the term “transgender”. “Transvestite”, which is a cross-dresser. And then there was “transsexual”, used for somebody who had been going through chemical and surgical procedures to try to change their biological sex. The term “transgender” simply obfuscates, which seems to be its intention. It’s an attempt by the unbeliever to defy God and His Law, and to create one’s own reality.

“Hath God said…?” the serpent asked. “Is this the reality He spoke into being? Or can you be gods, rebel against His rule, and create your own universe? Can you have ‘your truth’?”

There is one God, and one world made in accord with His being. All that stands contrary to Him is in vain and will fail.

Death By Christian Liberty

 Yes, we Reformed defend smoking and drinking as extensions of Christian liberty. Spurgeon told a Methodist minister once that he would know he was smoking too much if he was smoking two cigars at the same time. Hooray for freedom. Down with legalism.

Of course, John MacArthur died at 86. Chuck Swindoll just retired at 91. David Jeremiah is still going at 85. All Fundies and non-smokers.

It’s hard to preach with emphysema. It’s worth questioning whether your family and congregation wouldn’t rather have you depositing a life of learned wisdom into them for as long as you can, and whether it’s worth sacrificing those blessed golden years for cigars.

Expository vs. Topical Preaching

 If you grow up in a church without verse by verse exposition in sermons, then expository preaching, when encountered for the first time, can be like a cup of cold water in a desert. But expository preaching only, and the complete absence of topical sermons, can result in gaps in the knowledge of a congregation. Sometimes you need, not only sermons on theological topics like justification and predestination, but sermons that are detailed as well on basics like love, joy, and gratitude. 

Foreknowledge

 If, as the Arminian thinks, “foreknowledge” and “election” are God looking down through the corridors of time, seeing who will choose Him, and then choosing them based on their choice of Him, then this is still to say that the choice is predetermined. God in that scenario is seeing a choice that will not alter and is therefore in some sense and by somebody predetermined. Therefore there is no free will in the Arminian sense. If then the choice is unalterable and inevitable, then it must be made by an unalterable or unchangeable being, whether God or some other. If it is by some other, then one winds up in some variation of pantheism. If by God, then one simply ends up back at Calvinistic and Biblical predestination.

To then suggest, as some will, that the variation comes with God standing outside of created time, is still a false lead. God is still seeing a choice that will be made only one way, and is therefore predetermined.