Hi Jan,
You tell me, "Bill, Your reply was so long I didn't want to quote the whole thing again."
That is great. I wish others would do the same and quit posting these long, long chain of posts. Most often, we can shorten it down to just that to which we are responding -- and make the reading easier for everyone. I applaud you for this.
You tell me, "My cousin was born just as he is today. With a very feminine demeanor and a feeling that he should have been a girl. Whether you want to believe this or not is your right. However I can tell you that he had 2 other brothers one older and one younger that are not like him at all. We grew up on the same road and spent most of our time together. Nothing happened to him as a baby or otherwise that would have made him feel like a girl or want to be a girl. It was just so."
Jan, I do not know the age difference between you and your cousin; but, from your comments I would guess that you are fairly close in age. Can you honestly tell me that you looked at this newly born baby and knew that even though he was born male -- he was really a girl inside? Yes, maybe when he began to grow he was more effeminate, more frail, than other kids -- but, that does not make him homosexual. When I was young, we had effeminate boys in our neighborhood and in our schools. There was one in my high school class. But, I do not believe he was gay. An effeminate boy is not necessarily homosexual. However, the way he is treated in these young years can tend to cause him to lean one way or another. But, no, God would not do this to a child.
You ask, "How do you explain hermaphrodites? What was god's plan for them?"
This is a type of birth defect -- much like Down's Syndrome and other birth defects. With Down's Syndrome and similar defects; it is more obvious to others. Yet, a person born as a hermaphrodite has a great burden to carry -- for he/she sees this abnormality; but, others do not. It makes their life a hell. When I was a young boy in Sheffield, there was a lady who lived near us who was a hermaphrodite. She was beautiful and she was married -- yet, one day she drank lye and killed herself. Such a waste; but, how are we to know what hell she was living in private?
Yet these are birth defects. Birth defects came into being as man's gene pool was weakened through many generations of inter-familial marriage and through millennia of man living under the sin curse inherited from Adam.
However, homosexuality is not a birth defect -- is it? Are you saying that a person can be born with a birth defect which causes homosexuality? All birth defects I know of have been identified by medical science and they know pretty much what causes them, even though they have not been able to prevent them yet. However, medical science has never identified a gay gene or any abnormal gene which causes homosexuality. So, in this we are really talking apples and oranges.
Then, you tell me, "I met a man a few years back that had a child born that had both sex organs. Surgery was performed very soon after birth. They choose for the child to grow up as a girl. I met her once and she was one of the biggest tomboys I had ever met. However she had already developed breast and looked very female. When she is old enough to marry if she marries a man will she be a homosexual? At birth she had the parts of both. If she forms a relationship with a woman is she a lesbian? What was your God thinking....?"
Even though a child is born with both genitalia; I am sure it is very obvious whether it is a boy or a girl. Most typically, when a child is born a hermaphrodite, it has the full genitalia of one gender and a partial of the other. To the best of my knowledge, they are not born with a full male and a full female genitalia. As you said, "At birth she had the parts of both" -- but, I would suspect that if you knew the full story -- one would have been more developed than the other.
My beautiful neighbor who took her own life was very obviously a woman, a beautiful woman. I knew her and her husband -- and, no, she was not a homosexual living in secret.
You ask, "What was your God thinking....?"
This type of thing we cannot lay at the feet of God -- no more that we can blame God for the child born with Down's Syndrome or the child born with other birth defects -- or the child still-born or miscarried. Man, starting with Adam, has made his own bed -- and we must lie in it. Yes, there are horrible things happening in this world -- for it is a fallen world; it is a world ruled today by Satan.
But, one day soon, Jesus Christ will return and redeem the Title Deed to earth from Satan. Then Satan will be cast into the abyss for one thousand years -- and Jesus Christ will take all believers into His one thousand year Millennial Kingdom where there will be peace, happiness, and the perfect government -- His government.
Until then, I urge all my Friend who have not already made their reservations for eternal life with God -- do it today.
God bless, have a wonderful, blessed day,
Bill
