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Here’s the video of democrat James Talarico calling God non-binary.
“God is both masculine & feminine & everything in between.”
In the same breath, Talarico said, “[Trans children] are perfect, beautiful, & they are sacred.”
No, Talarico. God isn’t non-binary. pic.twitter.com/RnS21b8TeH
God obviously is is not binary, though it's understandable- albeit inaccurate and reprehensible that the Republican right would reinforce the myth that God is male. In the first book, verse 29 of chapter 15, of Samuel the prophet Samuel (probably) says "he who is the Glory of Israel does not lie or change his mind; for he is not a human being, that he should change his mind." In verse 24 of chapter 4 of the gospel of John, the apostle John (very likely) states "God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth." God is non-binary.
I don't know what Talarico actually believes God is but unless the Bible is wrong on this point, God is non-binary. His statement "God is both mascline and feminine nd everything in between" is open to interpretation. Although Scripture consistently refers to God in masculine terms (e.g., "father")
God created humanity in His image-both male and female (Genesis 1:27)-showing that all people reflect His likeness. This underscores God’s transcendence above human gender divisions. He is neither male nor female in the physical or biological sense. The masculine pronouns convey how God relates to humanity and expresses His authority and intimacy, not that He has a human body defined by gender.
There has been less backlash against Talarico for the comment about transsexual (uh, er, "transgender") children, possibly because that remark made less sense.
Trans children are God's children, made in God's own image. thee's nothing wrong with them. Nothing at all. They are perfect. They are beautful, and they are sacred.
Collins Dictionary defines "sacred" as "holy and having a special connection with God"; Cambridge as "considered to be holdy and deserving espect, especially because of a connection with a god; Merriam-Webster as "dedicated or set apart for the worship of a deity.' How Talarico gets from there to transsexual children or trans children (or straight children, were that his preference) are "sacred" is a mystery to me, and probably to himself.
Trans/transexual children are beautiful- just as straight children are. Except that most of them, as with most of us, are simply not beautiful. A world of mostly beautiful people? Awesome! (It would be almost as awesome as a blog post with only complete sentences. And far less likely.)
And then we come to the characterization of transexual/trans children as "perfect". Yes, a Christian seminarian said that a whole class of people is perfect. Yet he no doubt read the "Teacher" (presumably Solomon) write in Ecclesiastes 7:20 "indeed, there is no one on earth who is righteous, no one who does what is right and never sins". We move to the New Testament, where in Romans 3:23 the apostle Paul asserts "for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God".
These are not outliers. If individuals- trans or whomever- were perfect, there would have been no need for a Jesus Christ. We're not perfect, and cannot be.
It's disappointing that an individual who received a Master of Divinity degree from a Christian seminary would understand this. However, Talarico attended Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, a Presbyterian Church in the USA school.
The PCUSA long ago lost its way theologically. Fortunately, James Talarico, a supporter of abortion rights and opponent of state-mandated religious displays in public schools, has not lost his way politically. Of course, he is superior to opponent Ken Paxton in approximately 3,283 ways, spanning both political ideology and personal character. But suggesting that trans children possess virtues which other children and adults do not is both biblically unsound and, frankly, weird.
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