jesuswasgayandtrans

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The Holy Spirit has of course revealed to me that Jesus was trans, but was He transmasc or transfem? Or did He possess both an MTF and FTM nature in hypostatic union? Thoughts?

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Hm. Been wondering if I should have looked at more of my options before going with the American Baptists. I love my home church and region but the national convention leaves some things to be desired. Looking into it, I think I should have at least checked out the Quakers and maybe also the Disciples of Christ before deciding how I did.

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One of the funniest things you see from Christian evangelists is when they show up in a culture and they end up LOVING Christianity way more than the evangelists.

Like, in Tengrii, the indigenous Mongolian religion. One of the most impressive things a shaman can do is come back from the dead. And one of their major symbols is the cross representing the cardinal directions, obviously an important concept for a nomadic society.

When they learned that the Christians had a shaman who was killed On The Cross and THEN came back to life, they went absolutely nuts for Christianity. To the point where the evangelists had to kinda reign them in like "no no no he's not a shaman he's some different shit please stop depicting Christ as a ghost falcon"

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Musings About Christianity and Stuff I Guess #2

Been thinking about how shitty SBC and IFB Baptists are on the issue of the ordination of women. Like it's insane that my mom, who is definitely a feminist-type in general thinks having women preachers is a "gateway to abortion and gay marriage". Blatant sex discrimination should not be acceptable in the church, especially not in one of the largest denominations in the country. It's insane to me that the SBC has had to completely backpedal on like, racism stuff but they can have the most sexist policies imaginable. (Well they're anti-racist for now, they could definitely pull some "anti-woke" stuff in the near future and we'll see how that goes.) I've told my dad who's an ordained SBC minister that I could never join an SBC church again because of this and the whole gay thing.

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Musings About Christianity and Stuff I Guess #1

Haven't been active on Tumblr in a while but decided to make a new blog about Christianity and stuff. I'll probably discuss various aspects of liberation theology, queer theology, progressive Christianity, as well as American Protestantism in general.

I'll mostly be keeping this blog anonymous but I will say, I'm a trans nb lesbian who was raised in the Southern Baptist Convention, deconverted as a teen, and recently reconverted and joined a (socially and theologically) liberal/progressive congregation in a liberal urban region in the American Baptist Churches USA.

Now to the actual musings. Been thinking about baptism today. I just have some deeply held belief that credobaptism by immersion is correct. I'd almost not want to join a church that baptizes infants and/or by sprinkling or pouring. (I'm very comfortable at my current church, I merely mean this as an example.) I understand that hasn't been the historic practice of the Church, the Scripture is definitely somewhat ambiguous here, and I definitely want to tend to err on the side of ecumenism, but I also feel uncharacteristically steadfast in my position on this. I just can't imagine being the pastor or deacon of a church that baptizes infants, you know? I obviously think pedobaptism is valid in that i wouldn't have someone rebaptized if they were baptized as an infant, but it's definitely not my preference. Idk, should I have talked about something more feministy for my first post? It's just what came to mind lol.