" A woman shall not be clothed with man's apparel, neither shall a man use woman's apparel: for he that doth these things is abominable before God. " Does this refer to transgenders?
2007-07-02 18:33:09 · 6 answers · asked by D 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It regers to crossdressing. Women don't wear men's clothes and men don't wear the women's clothes.
2007-07-02 18:36:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, it refers to God not liking deception or perversion of his design for human sexuality. Jesus affirmed that God's plan is for a man to have a wife, as if that isn't apparent by a basic understanding of biology.
Matthew 19:4 He answered, "Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, 5 and said, 'Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh'? 6 So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate."
Trans-genders are the result of sin corrupting God's perfect creation just like other physical abnormalities and sickness and death. But God will remedy all this when his plan of redemption has finally been fulfilled.
Revelation 21:1-8 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. 2 And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. 4 He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning nor crying nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away."
5 And he who was seated on the throne said, "Behold, I am making all things new." Also he said, "Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true." 6 And he said to me, "It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give from the spring of the water of life without payment. 7 The one who conquers will have this heritage, and I will be his God and he will be my son.
8 But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death."
2007-07-02 18:40:53 · answer #2 · answered by Martin S 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It refers to transvestites.
It's one of the things Joan of Arc was burned for. But , with the advent of unisex styles, and my humble observation that a woman can wear anything a man does these days and 'get away with it' -- it's just one of many examples of old, hoary and obsolete nonsense from the Mosaic Law that amounts to sex descrimination, and which is all but ignored by almost all xtians unless they dig them out of obscure passages to score a couple of debate points.
Oops, I've kissed away any extra brownie points yet again...
2007-07-02 21:26:55 · answer #3 · answered by sheik_sebir 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. It means what it says. A women isnt to wear mens clothes. A man isnt to wear womens clothes.
I am a women, and I only wear skirts or dresses. That is womens apparel. I dont wear pants, they are for a man.
2007-07-02 18:35:57 · answer #4 · answered by Bl3ss3dw1thL1f3 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God formed each of us in the womb of our given mothers. We are to continue in the design that He chose for us, as in male or female and not cross over. That's what I think.
2007-07-02 18:41:22 · answer #5 · answered by connie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thats right
2007-07-02 18:37:07 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋