Not only is it wrong, yes, indeed a sin to use transgender pronouns, it’s wrong and a sin — as it falls short of the glory and honour of God, it falls short of the truth and accommodates sin and evil — to refer to homosexual people as “gay,” and to supplant acronyms which numb the mind, evade the reality, and gloss over and remove the element of thought of the acts in question.

I was severely admonished, called on the carpet, and made to look as if I was in the wrong, dead wrong for questioning a young elder in a church who used the word “gay” in a small group consisting of professed true believers in the Lord Jesus Christ instead of the appropriate word, homosexual. I inquired why he choose to use the word “gay” rather than homosexual, and didn’t he realize that he was accommodating the world and thus evil in appearing no different than the world in his speech?

This escalated. Instead of him coming to me and the two of us discussing this and reaching an understanding, which is how Scripture instructs something like this is to be handled, he took it to the pastor at that church, and I was called into an hour and forty-five-minute meeting wherein I was told repeatedly how in error I was, even having my faith questioned, along with numerous other assumptions made about me, accusations unfounded made about me without wanting to hear from me regarding any facts, history or truth.

This got back to the church my wife and I have attended for over five years, and I was then part of a telephone conversation between two pastors from that church and myself that lasted for about thirty minutes, wherein I was again told I was wrong and it’s an accepted word by everyone, and when the word “gay” is used everyone knows what it means. Because no one liked the “tone” of the email I had originally sent to the young pastor.

Do our words matter? Yes, they do. I contend, that Christians have become lax and worldly not wanting to appear separate from the world in our speech, in what we write, and how we think. We think worldly rather than godly of Biblically. This is being renewed of mind and spirit and a disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ?

Do you truly believe that God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit are using, would use corrupted speech and altered meanings, acronyms, and out-and-out perverted speech? That Jesus would go about using transgender pronouns, accommodating sin and evil, and using corrupted speech?

Really?

Are we not, if truly disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ to imitate Him? Follow Him? Have Him be preeminent in our lives appearing separate and different from the world?

Do you think that our speech has any part in that?

One of the two pastors in the telephone conversation is a pastor whose Bible study class before the Sunday service my wife and I attended for a number of years. And this pastor on many occasions mentioned the perversion of language, the changing of word’s meanings and such, and yet he didn’t see how acquiescing, accommodating the world in the supplanting of the word “gay” for homosexual to deflect and numb the mind to reality and the truth has led to the place we now are in the perversion and corruption of language.

The young elder who instead of coming to me to discuss what I had written to him took me before the pastor and I sat and was harshly admonished for an hour and forty-five minutes at one point told me, “You’re old, and it’s just the evolution of language.”

No, I may be older, but it isn’t about the evolution of language. It’s about Christians accommodating sin and evil and preferring to appear no different from the world using the lie, the pretense of being “compassionate and loving” when in truth they are only accommodating sin and evil and pleasing Satan and not pleasing God.

No, it may appear as the evolution of language but in reality, it’s the erosion, the perversion, and the corruption of language to appease, approve of and accommodate the lies of the world and thus the lies of Satan.

We are do speak, write, and do things because it’s what the world does and expects.

Really?

This is the priority among professed Christians now? Fearful of appearing different more than being fearful of the Lord?

Can you not see that adopting and approving of one word leads to the adopting and approving of others? They call it a slippery slope. Throwing the door open and never being able to close it on that which enters ever again.

Ever hear that “one thing leads to another?”

How do you think we’ve arrived at the world dictating the use of approved pronouns, of the world declaring there are over 64 genders, of the medical profession siding with the lies and delusion forsaking reality and the truth?

Erosion, rot, and decay do not occur overnight. It is the constant wearing down. The relentless wearing down to alter, to change, or even remove.

It’s called accommodating sin and evil. Refusing to appear separate and different from the world.

It’s called every word shall have to be accounted for. If you do not believe this you can do some checking within the Word of God to learn this reality and truth.

Words are important.

Each one used. Each one thought. Each one corrupted, abused, misused, perverted, and altered in its meaning to appease and approve of sin ad evil, to accommodate sin and evil.

Why grow weaker and appear no different than anyone in the world, in darkness, serving Satan?

Why fear anyone in the world and stop fearing God Who has power over where your spirit and soul spend eternity?

Why permit your language to erode and accommodate sin and evil? Control the tongue which is a raging fire and condemns us. That can also be found in God’s Word if wondering how that came into my heart and mind to write.

Condemns us. Even though we think we’re now impervious if we claim to be Christian.

Do you not know, Christian, you are then the greater target of the Enemy, the Evil One, and all his ministers and minions in this escalating spiritual war? And the main weapon of mass destruction in this ever-escalating and raging spiritual war is — language!

What the false teachers use.

What is so easily perverted, corrupted, altered, and used to control.

Language.

Not bullets, bombs, tanks, or even an election outcome.

Language.

Imagine that.

Ken Pullen, A CROOKED PATH, Wednesday, April 5th, 2023

Should Christians Use Transgender Pronouns?

While it may seem compassionate to use pronouns that don’t align with biology, it is really just accommodating a lie.

It is a Sin for a Christian to Use Transgender Pronouns. Why? Because it goes directly against God, against Christ, and against the Word of God. Against reality and the truth.

April 04, 2023

By Michael Brown

Reprinted from ASKDRBrown & Prophecy News Watch

It’s one thing for us to recognize that it is impossible for a man to become a woman or vice versa.

But is it ever right to call a trans-identified person by their preferred gender pronouns (PGPs)? Could this be the compassionate, Christlike approach? And what happens when you’re required to give your own PGP?

Is it better to conform rather than to rock the boat?

Let’s tackle the second question first.

Recently a Christian father wrote to me,

“My daughter has an internship with a college newspaper. They are filming a little commercial/ad thing for students, and they asked all of the people on the team including interns to introduce themselves and list their pronouns. So my daughter would say, “I’m Sally Smith, and my pronouns are she/her.” My daughter is asking me if this is the time to put her foot down, or does she just go along with it because those are her pronouns? Or is listing the pronouns a nod to believing in lies? I tend she should not list her pronouns, but curious about your thoughts.”

I immediately wrote back, “I would not list mine for sure,” adding in jest, “or else I’d say my pronouns are He is Lord. They either accept this or they don’t.”

I continued, “I would not comply, and the school has no right to require it.”

The father fully agreed, being reinforced in his own convictions.

Really now, on what legal basis can any school or business or organization put you under pressure or penalize you for refusing to collaborate with social madness?

Recently, I was filling out a medical questionnaire before my annual physical.

One question asked if my sexual partner (in my case, only my wife of 47 years) was: “Female; Male; Transgender Female/Male-to-Female; Transgender Male/Female-to-Male; Other; Choose not to disclose.”

What is this doing on a medical form? Why even ask such a question, let alone give such a ridiculous set of choices?

This is cultural madness.

What, then, should a young person at school or an older person do if asked to give their name and PGP? I say they should just give their name and leave it there. And they should be prepared to take a stand – with national, Christian legal support if needed– if penalized for their actions.

What about using someone else’s PGPs?

The reality is that, for the most part, when speaking directly to someone, it’s rare that you have to use their pronouns.

But what if the need arose, especially with someone you met for the first time? Wouldn’t it be Christian to meet that person where they are and then help them find true wholeness from the inside out?

Many Christian leaders today would answer this in the affirmative, including former lesbian feminist professor Rosaria Butterfield – that is, for Butterfield, until recently. But now she has had a dramatic change of heart, writing an article titled, “Why I no longer use Transgender Pronouns—and Why You shouldn’t, either.”

In the article, she states, “My use of transgendered pronouns was not a mistake; it was sin.

“Public sin requires public repentance, not course correction.

“I have publicly sinned on the issue of transgender pronouns, which I have carelessly used in books and articles.

“I have publicly sinned by advocating for the use of transgender pronouns in interviews and public Q&As.”

What motivated her to make these poor choices in the past?

Among “a bunch” of lame excuses she could give, she lists: “It was a carry-over from my gay activist days. I wanted to meet everyone where they were and do nothing to provoke insult.”

And why does she say that it is a sin for her to use such pronouns today?

She lists 8 reasons, including: to use these pronouns is violation of the 9th commandment (not to bear false witness against your neighbor, and referring to them as something they are not is false witness); it’s an encouragement for them to violate the 10th commandment (not to covet, here, meaning coveting an identity that is not theirs); it violates the order of creation and the calling on both male and female to bear God’s image; it discourages the ongoing sanctification of trans-identified Christians; it cheapens the reality of redemption through the cross; it fails to love our neighbor as ourself; it fails to offer genuine Christian hospitality, replacing it instead with “liberal communitarianism, identity politics, and ‘human flourishing’”; to use PGP’s has always been sinful and remains so even though times have changed.

After citing the testimony of ex-trans-person Laura Perry Smalts and addressing the considered viewpoints of Christian leaders like Preston Sprinkle and Mark Yarhouse, she concludes with:

“We who have promoted this sin need to stand up and repent.

“I’ll start. 

“I repent.

“May God forgive me.

“Would anyone like to join me.” 

Having interacted extensively in the past with trans-identified Christians (in particular), and having dealt with the question on a more personal level with a trans-identified, non-Christian relative, I do understand the extreme sensitivities involved in this discussion.

I can honestly say, without judgment or condescension, that I fully understand why some Christians would argue for the use of PGP’s for the sake of compassionate outreach. I really do get it. Why risk hurting someone who has already been hurt many times? Why risk driving someone away who might be very fragile emotionally?

But at the end of the day, reality is reality and truth is truth, and to collaborate with someone’s deep, heartfelt confusion is to hurt them more than to help them.

Do you agree?

So is sin and evil — and the corruption, the perversion of language is key to this.

RELATED:

Revolutionary language

Spirit Fog