{"id":15647,"date":"2014-06-12T10:34:36","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T14:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/?p=15647"},"modified":"2019-10-07T05:48:28","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T11:48:28","slug":"southern-baptists-unanimously-affirm-biblical-sexuality-oppose-transgenderism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/southern-baptists-unanimously-affirm-biblical-sexuality-oppose-transgenderism\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Baptists Unanimously Affirm Biblical Sexuality, Oppose \u2018Transgenderism\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Garrett Haley<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><strong> Christian News Network<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"pf-content\">\n<div id=\"nrelate_flyout_placeholder\">\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24856 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/christiannews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/SBC-pd-200x300.png\" alt=\"SBC pd\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/>BALTIMORE <\/strong>\u2013 Southern Baptist leaders voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to affirm the biblical model of human sexuality, agreeing that gender identity is solely determined by biological sex and not by \u2018one\u2019s self-perception.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/christiannews.net\/2014\/06\/05\/southern-baptists-ponder-declining-membership-homosexual-and-transgender-issues\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">As previously reported<\/a>, church representatives at the annual Southern Baptist Convention in Baltimore considered a number of items for discussion this week, including the topic of gender identity. While many claim that a person\u2019s gender can differ from one\u2019s sexuality, the Southern Baptists declared just the opposite in a resolution titled \u201cOn Transgender Identity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGod\u2019s design was the creation of two distinct and complementary sexes, male and female, which designate the fundamental distinction that God has embedded in the very biology of the human race,\u201d the resolution states in part.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention meeting in Baltimore, Maryland, June 10\u201311, 2014, affirm God\u2019s good design that gender identity is determined by biological sex and not by one\u2019s self-perception\u2014a perception which is often influenced by fallen human nature in ways contrary to God\u2019s design,\u201d the resolution continues.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 5px; float: left;\">\u00a0The resolution also exhorts Christians to unashamedly proclaim the biblical perspective on human sexuality. <a href=\"http:\/\/christiannews.net\/2014\/06\/12\/southern-baptists-unanimously-affirm-biblical-sexuality-oppose-transgenderism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here<\/a> to continue reading.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Garrett Haley Christian News&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3544,257,248,113,4114,4,2403],"tags":[2932,2939,530,3235],"class_list":["post-15647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transgenderism","category-same-sex-marriage","category-hate-crime-laws","category-homosexuality","category-transgenderism-children-at-risk","category-defending-the-faith","category-southern-baptist-convention-churches-in-crisis","tag-homosexuality","tag-same-sex-marriage","tag-southern-baptist-convention","tag-transgenderism","wpcat-3544-id","wpcat-257-id","wpcat-248-id","wpcat-113-id","wpcat-4114-id","wpcat-4-id","wpcat-2403-id"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.4 (Yoast SEO v28.4) - 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