Can transgender people be truly Christian?

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Trick question.

Obedience, yes. Righteous, no.

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Noting hypocrisy is not a rant.

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Was it God's instruction?

Is this too deep for you?

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Very true... its the crux of Christianity. In a nutshell:
- we are all sinners condemned to die
- Jesus saved us and gave us an opportunity to live
- We are required to give up the life of sin.

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Are you high?

I said no, it wasn't righteous. How do you know it was God's command?

Didn't Jesus stop the stoning of that woman?

The more telling part of that passage is that a few here would throw the first stone even though they were not without sin themselves. You seem to have missed the entire point. Retribution for sin is not the main message of Jesus' ministry, no matter how many, even here, would wish it so. All those who want the woman stoned seem to think they are without sin, or that the woman's sin is somehow greater than their own. These are the people to whom Jesus will say on that last day, "I never knew you."

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Aha, then you expose your own hypocrisy.

I am not a hypocrite. You are, since you use the word as a tool to mold others' opinions, not as it was meant to be used. Thus your own hypocrisy is clear.

@suzianne said
The more telling part of that passage is that a few here would throw the first stone even though they were not without sin themselves. You seem to have missed the entire point. Retribution for sin is not the main message of Jesus' ministry, no matter how many, even here, would wish it so. All those who want the woman stoned seem to think they are without sin, or that the ...[text shortened]... r than their own. These are the people to whom Jesus will say on that last day, "I never knew you."

The meaning you extract from this story about the stoning of the woman guilty of adultery, judging by when and why you wield it, appears to be that Christians cannot be expected to be clear about what is and isn't "sin".

Defining what "fornication" is and isn't, is not a debate about what "retribution for sin" there will be or whether wrongdoers ought to be stoned or witches burned.

Defining what "fornication" is and isn't, is about what is and isn't "sinful" according to Christian teaching and belief.

Jesus talking about people not throwing the first stone unless they were without sin themselves does not alter the fact that what the woman was accused of was "sinful".

And it's still "sinful" two centuries later, right?

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Deafening