Church Pastor Claims Jesus ‘Transgenders Himself’ in the Bible – Opinion

Was Jesus transgender? Ministers believe the answer to that question is “yes.”

It would appear that he was at the most gender-fluid.

The Post Millennial relays that the preacher dropped a bomb last summer during a London panel.

The shellshock may have been minimal, though, as the conference was reportedly on “Queer Theology.”

According to a Twitter account, Simon Woodman from Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church spoke at the event.

If those credits are accurate, they do things quite differently across the pond — our Baptist pastors don’t wear white collars.

Also typically, they don’t assert the Messiah subscribed to 21st-century gender theology.

Simon presents his case as follows:

“I think Jesus transgenders himself on a number of occasions. I think, you know, just a little phrase, Jesus is lamenting over Jerusalem, longing to gather Jerusalem as a mother hen gathers her chicks.”

You may be familiar with Christ washing his disciples’ feet.

Here’s the story, from John 13:4-17, NIV:

After finishing his meal, he stood up and took off all his clothing. He wrapped a towel around himself. 5 After that, he poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples’ feet, drying them with the towel that was wrapped around him.
6 He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, “Lord, are you going to wash my feet?”
7 Jesus replied, “You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand.”
8 “No,” said Peter, “you shall never wash my feet.”
Jesus answered, “Unless I wash you, you have no part with me.”
9 “Then, Lord,” Simon Peter replied, “not just my feet but my hands and my head as well!”
10 Jesus answered, “Those who have had a bath need only to wash their feet; their whole body is clean. And you are clean, though not every one of you.” 11 For he knew who was going to betray him, and that was why he said not every one was clean.
12 After he was done washing his feet, he changed into his clothes and went back to his home. “Do you understand what I have done for you?” he asked them. 13 “You call me ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord,’ and rightly so, for that is what I am. 14 Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet. 15 You should follow my example and do the same for others. 16 I can assure you that no servant is more important than his master nor any messenger is more valuable than his sender. 17 Now that you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.”

Simon said that Jesus was becoming a woman.

“And I think if you look at the foot-washing from John’s gospel — foot-washing elsewhere in both Old and New Testaments — that it’s consistently done by women. Jesus goes on. People often cast that as being the servant’s role. It was the woman’s role. And Jesus does it and becomes the woman at that point.”

This is the larger context. This panel was part of a discussion on “Queer Theology”, which took place last summer. Simon Woodman from London’s Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church is the speaker. https://t.co/63hZrhmhgO pic.twitter.com/fOdieJKo49

— Woke Preacher Clips (@WokePreacherTV) January 20, 2022

It’s an interesting idea: If you do something women have historically done, you become a woman.

It’s hard to imagine a progressive minister saying to his flock, “If you wash dishes or do laundry or iron, that’s you becoming a woman.”

Yet, that’s the principle apparently at play.

As for the convergence of Christianity and gender/sex issues, it’s no revolutionary recipe.

This month I wrote about the DePaul University, a Christian institution that asked students to choose from nine different gender identities.

Last November, I wrote of an Atlanta church hosting Emory University’s “Pride” drag show.

An Episcopal bishop declared in June 2019 that God is female.

The Episcopal Church had in July the intention of giving the Creator a sexual change.

In May 2021, mainline Protestantism was blessed with its first transgender pastor.

And last year, Kentucky’s Hope United Methodist Church promoted a drag queen as candidate for ordination.

Witness a message by “Ms. Penny Cost”:

As for Jesus “transgendering” himself, I respectfully disagree.

I believe it didn’t occur, as this was 2,000 years before the concept of “transgenderism” existed.

The Left side has insisted that gender is socially constructed.

The same goes for gender identity — or identity in general.

And identity, as it relates to one’s sex, is a brand-new shiny idea.

It’s an interesting emergence — recently, some in power have decided we need more layers of identification.

It is not natural.

People used to live naked in the forest long ago. Civilization was about survival.

Mirrors were not available. No social media existed. There weren’t dresses and makeup and nail polish. There weren’t flannel shirts and pickup trucks and jeans. There weren’t screen names and icons and emojis.

There were only you and the tree. The sticks, the rocks and animals were all there.

And impending death.

That isn’t to say there was no philosophy; humankind’s quest for truth is built-in.

Still, I’d venture to say none walked around thinking, “I identify as _____.”

Of course, I’m only guessing — I wasn’t there.

Simon Woodman was not the same.

But I’m presuming that, since people weren’t doing that in the 1990’s, they weren’t doing it in a land before time.

And so far as we know, neither were they doing so in Jesus’s day.

But I’m no historian, and to each his or her own.

There is one thing certain: our society is in constant evolution. And that transformation covers all — even a faith more than two millennia old.

-ALEX

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