ECLA Transgender Pastor: The Bible “Wasn’t Written for 2024”

This “pastor” was asked during an interview on CBS Mornings how she (yes, she is a woman who identifies as a man) handles people who claim God’s Word is clear that he created male and female. Her response was to claim that, well, the Bible “wasn’t written for 2024.”

It’s hard to relate [the Bible] to modern-day times because it wasn’t written for 2024. It was written for then. When we read in the Scripture that God created man and woman, yes, and God created everyone else as well.

Now, there are many verses of Scripture that tell us that God’s Word stands forever! It is for all people for all time.

We’ve already dealt extensively on our website (and in Martyn Iles’ book, Who Am I?) with the truth that God created male and female—and he didn’t create gender on a spectrum. That is an idea grounded in modern psychology which says biology doesn’t matter and truth is determined by subjective feelings about self. Such an idea is foreign to the pages of Scripture. Instead, we’re specifically told not to trust our own feelings or wisdom because our hearts lie to us:

The heart is deceitful above all things,
    and desperately sick;
    who can understand it? (Jeremiah 17:9)

Trust in the Lord with all your heart,
    and do not lean on your own understanding. (Proverbs 3:5)

The Scriptures are not just a collection of man-made writings. No, the Bible is the very Word of God, and it is eternal.

But what about her claim that the Bible “wasn’t written for 2024”? This denies the eternality of the Bible—that it was written for all people, in all times. The Scriptures are not just a collection of man-made writings. No, the Bible is the very Word of God, and it is eternal. Scripture is clear on this:

The grass withers, the flower fades,
    but the word of our God will stand forever. (Isaiah 40:8)

For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished. (Matthew 5:18)

Forever, O Lord, your word is firmly fixed in the heavens. (Psalm 119:89)

In claiming that the Bible wasn’t written for 2024, this woman is incredibly dismissive of the very words of God. She’s putting her own wisdom, her own desires, her own thinking, above God’s Word. Really, she’s trying to be her own god, buying into the lie from the garden, “Did God actually say . . . ?” (Genesis 3:1). What a contrast to the attitude David had regarding God’s Word:

With my whole heart I seek you;
    let me not wander from your commandments!
I have stored up your word in my heart,
    that I might not sin against you. . . .

It is good for me that I was afflicted,
    that I might learn your statutes.
The law of your mouth is better to me
    than thousands of gold and silver pieces. . . .

Forever, O Lord, your word
    is firmly fixed in the heavens. . . .

How sweet are your words to my taste,
    sweeter than honey to my mouth! . . .

Your word is a lamp to my feet
    and a light to my path. (Psalm 119:10–11, 71–72, 89, 103, 105)

When it comes to God’s Word, we must have the humility David had, understanding that God’s Word is good and a wonderful blessing to us and that God’s Word must shape our thinking.

As fallible human beings, we should never conform the Word of God to our thinking—no, we conform our thinking to God’s perfect Word!

As fallible human beings, we should never conform the Word of God to our thinking—no, we conform our thinking to God’s perfect Word!

Oh, and if you’d like to learn more about gender identity, I encourage you to check out Martyn’s book, Who Am I? Or, if you are a Spanish speaker, come to our Día Latino event, October 18, 2024, at the Creation Museum and October 19, 2024, at the Ark Encounter. The theme this year is “What is your identity?” and the answers will come straight from the pages of Genesis. Don’t miss out on this outreach to the Latino community. It’s a wonderful blessing each year! Find all the details on our event page.

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,
Ken

This item was written with the assistance of AiG’s research team.