It is uplifting to see concern about others on this board.
A beautiful statement on an an individual search for truth, or journey of faith and discernment is described beautifully, in an unrelated Encyclical, by Pope John Paul II, “Fiedes et Ratio”:
“Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truth—in a word, to know himself—so that, by knowing and loving God, men and women may also come to the fullness of truth about themselves (cf. Ex 33:18; Ps 27:8-9; 63:2-3; Jn 14:8; 1 Jn 3:2).”
Does a scientific truth exist which does not contradict the truth in God which He showed to us through the life and teachings of Jesus Christ(***)?
Did God make us all in His image? Is there not a mystery to/in creation than man should not presume to understand, yet alone conquer or control? Doesn’t man now see imperfectly and know only in part (1Corinthians 13:12)?
If we do not seek to understand before being understood, does the Christian then lack Charity and be nothing? (1Corinthians 13:2).
Lack of charity toward man leads to collective violence on an unrecognized and unimaginable scale. Mass abortions of babies following prenatal detection of Intersex conditions results. Similar testing fro trans* conditions will follow.
Hate and ignorance lead to the dehumanizing of the human condition. Where is charity?
Charity is the grace that proves the Christian to be mature in his faith and practice; the “greatest” of the three abiding virtues (1Corinthians 13:13).
These Christians, like all children of God, are God’s creation for which all should be thankful. However, these gifts from God suffer when other Christians do not treat them charitably. Indeed, all Christians then suffer with them (1Corinthians 12:26).
These Christians, through their own faith and suffering bring about hope in God and, through endurance, salvation and their life narrative is a gift for which others should be thankful.
The human body and it’s spiritual soul, gendered, is one body, and at the same time a number of parts. The parts may be afflicted with a physical evil but these do not thereby condemn the body or the soul. “Those parts of the body, which we think to be less honorable, upon these we bestow more abundant honor.” (1Corinthians 12:23)
(*) (a) Learn about Intersex at
dsdguidelines.org/
(*) (b) Dr. John Money promoted a theory that Man, not God, created a persons gender identity. This atheist’s theory was shattered long ago, see
infocirc.org/rollston.htm for the story. Christians known this theory was not based on truth because “God created man in his own image . . . male and female he created them” (Gen 1:27). As stated by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales (ironically in opposition to the Gender Recognition Bill in that Country): “There is no convincing evidence that a gender can really be changed or aquired, much less chosen.” But, sometimes the organ called the brain develops asymmetrically to the body.
(**) Learn about transsexualism at
gires.org.uk/Text_Assets/ATypical_Gender_Development.pdf
(***) (a) “let us stop just saying we love each other; let us really show it by our actions” (1John3:18)
(***) (b) We cannot save ourselves but Jesus says, “For human beings this is impossible, but for God all things are possible” (Matthew 24-26).
(***) (c) “For there are eunuchs who have been so from birth, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. He who is able to receive this let him receive it” (Mt 19:12).
(****) (a) “In our study population, the overall rate of termination was 81%”
“Variation in the decision to terminate pregnancy in the setting of fetal aneuploidy.”, Prenat Diagn. 2006 Aug;26(8):667-71.
(****) (a) “In all cases with a fetal abnormality seen on ultrasound, pregnancy was terminated.”
“Parental decisions following the prenatal diagnosis of sex chromosome abnormalities.”, Eur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Biol. 2004 Sep 10;116(1):58-62.
(****) (a) “Forty-nine of 89 pregnancies with sex chromosome aneuploidy were terminated.”
“Factors influencing parental decision making in prenatal diagnosis of sex chromosome aneuploidy.”, Obstet Gynecol. 2004 Jul;104(1):94-101.
(****) (a) Watch a free video on the latest knowledge in biology of sex and gender, on the recent findings which have challenged previous beliefs about the roles of anatomy, environment, and genetics in the determination of gender, and the evolution of sexual determination at
learner.org/resources/series187.html#program_descriptions goto session 11 Biology of Sex and Gender.
, my personality hasn’t changed, but I think the way one plays during childhood doesn’t make you necessarily gay.
