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If You’re A Christian You Should Not Refer To Transgender People By Their ‘Preferred Pronouns’ Because Of This One Very Simple Common Sense Reason

Should Christians refer to transgender people by their preferred pronouns, or should we instead stand with God and the Bible as the end times get darker?

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6 years ago

November 25, 2019

Geoffrey Grider

Transgender People and Preferred Pronouns

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Naming may have a certain ambiguity and arbitrariness to it, but the language of he and she, preferred pronouns and the use of bathrooms and hotel rooms does not. And I will draw a line and say, I will not call he “she.” I will not call she “he.”

One of the reasons why the professing Christian Church is weak and powerless in 2019 is because most Christians do not know Bible doctrine, if they do they do not know how to rightly divide, and the vast majority of the Christians I come in contact with have little to no discernment. Because of these factors, as we pointed out in last night’s Bible study on the same subject, the LGBTQ+ has been able to make incredible strides in taking power of our national narrative and steering it to where they want it to go. This is possible because we are no longer in the Philadelphia Church Age but rather the Laodicean one, and I don’t know about you, but it’s really starting to wear on me pretty good. Let’s talk about preferred pronouns.

“This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.” 2 Timothy 3:1 (KJV)

The Transgender Agenda is sucking all the oxygen out of the room lately, as they are now the driving force in the LGBTQ+P for Pedophile Movement, and Christians are confused and bewildered on how they should act when having to interact with them. The current president of the Southern Baptist Convention, an apostate named JD Greear, recently gave an interview where he suggested that Christians use something he calls ‘pronoun hospitality‘, and call them by whatever they identify as. Greear even tries to drag the Bible into his theological nightmare by suggesting that Paul would be accommodating to the transgender and call them by their preferred pronouns. Let me assure you that the apostle Paul would do no such thing.

We should love the lost souls of the LGBTQ+ Movement, without question, almost all of us have a gay or transgender relative. All Christians are called to love the lost no matter their sin, and to be a witness to them of the transforming power of the gospel of the grace of God. But we are never called to confirm people in their sin, and as such, there is a line that needs to be drawn. It is impossible to change your gender, a person who is born male remains male no matter what surgeries, creams, lotions, hormones or clothing they apply to their situation. A transgender ‘woman’ is still a man, and nothing exists anywhere in the world, at the moment, that can change that. Preferred pronouns are all part of the intentional confusion they are trying to draw you, the Christian, into. The transgender will tell you that using their preferred pronouns is a form of “respect and validation”, but it is no such thing, it’s mental illness.

I know that this article will fall on mostly deaf ears as the Laodicean Church in general has no desire to be anything other than lukewarm. It looks at Kanye West and cannot discern that is a deception, so they call him a ‘baby christian’ and allow him to earn $170 million in 6 weeks in album sales. It looks at the Chick-fil-A betrayal and says “Franklin Graham told me Chick-fil-A hasn’t change and I believe him!”. This is Franklin Graham. So I don’t expect that with preferred pronouns most Christians will be able to figure this one out, either. But here’s to hoping.

How Should I Refer to Transgender Friends?

FROM DESIRING GOD: Manhood and womanhood, our sex, are intended in the Bible — that is, intended by God our Creator — to be biologically or genetically identified. Of course, the biblical authors didn’t know anything about genetics, but I am throwing it in because we know genetics, and it is in sync with biology, which they did know.

“Manhood and womanhood are glorious realities that transcend biology, but are never to be severed from biology.”

There is vastly more to the meaning of manhood and womanhood than biology and genetics in the way we relate to each other, but not less. In other words, manhood and womanhood are glorious, personal realities that transcend genetics and biology, but are never intended to be severed from biology. One of the clearest ways to see this reality in the Bible is to see the many references to “male child” or “female child.” I looked them up just to make sure. This fact is so obvious that people wonder, Why are you even arguing? But we need to.

In other words, before children were old enough to express any gender-specific behaviors or desires or preferences, they were identified as male and female. And this identity defined their lives — for example, sometimes in matters of inheritance and other ways. There is no thought in the Bible of the possibility that the sex (biologically identified) could change because its rooted in biology.

Therefore, when Genesis 1:27 says, “God created us male and female,” there is every reason to think that this included our biological, genetic nature at the root of all the other transcendent aspects of male and female personhood. So we have a pervasive, biblical warrant to say that God wills for our sexual identity to be of one piece with our biological, genetic identity. Now that is my biblical premise.

Rare Cases

Let me just mention an exception. We all know that there are very, very rare situations of heart-breaking biological anomalies where the anatomical sexual organs are ambiguous or compromised. In those cases, we face very unusual challenges. If I were a parent to a child who was born in that situation, I think I would ask for genetic testing (which you couldn’t do generations ago) and opt for surgery that suits the child best for what his genetics say he or she is, and then raise him or her with that expectation.

But that is very, very rare. And we are talking mainly here about clearly identifiable sexual organs at birth through life that should define the trajectory of the sexual and gender life and understanding.

Now how does all that play out in our culture? Even short of surgery we are being asked in Minnesota to treat boys as girls who want to be treated as girls and vice versa so that it determines what team they play on in high school — the girls’ team or the boys’ team — what locker room they use, and what restrooms they use. We are being asked to call Bob “Mary” and Sally “Jim.” This will make obedience to Jesus in the coming days increasingly costly for us. So now, finally, here are my three guidelines:

Should I Call Her Jim?

(1) In one sense the names Sally or Jim are culturally arbitrary. We can name our kids whatever we want. We can name them after cars or planets or Greek virtues or Grandma. Calling someone by that arbitrary name their parents chosen or the one they choose halfway through life may not imply agreement with all that that name was created to signify by the person.

So if I had a neighbor next door to me, which this is very feasible, who was biologically male, and everybody knew it, and he introduced himself to me as Sally — if I met him for the first time, and I saw him the next day, I might avoid calling him anything, but I would probably default to Sally. I probably would until there was a relationship that would go deeper to see whether I could be of any help. So that is one concession I am going to make because of the arbitrary nature of names. And then it is going to get a little more dicey and divisive.

(2) However, if in the office where we worked, I was compelled to identify every so-called transgender person by the pronoun they preferred in all of my emails, or conversations — suppose in emails and conversations I had used “she” for he or “he” for she — or I would get disciplined in the office, at that point I would say to my superiors, I cannot treat he’s as she’s and she’s as he’s.

“I will draw a line and say that I will not call he ‘she.’ I will not call she ‘he.’”

I cannot buy the whole package. I would be lying to call a he a “she.” I am not lying to call a male “Sally.” That is a culturally arbitrary, weird fluke. But I am lying if I say about a true Jim who wants to be called Sally, “she.” And it would be contrary to my understanding of sexuality and I would start looking for another job.

(3) The same thing applies to bathrooms, locker rooms, and hotel rooms where women identify as men or vice versa. I would refuse to have a roommate who said she was a man, even though I share a room in my travels with my assistant all the time. He is a man, and I know he is a man, and that is a perfectly normal thing to do. But if they insisted that I share the same bathroom, share the same locker room, or share the same hotel room, I am looking for another job.

So in summary, then, the question is: Are we forced to call them a name that they prefer, which I am probably going to submit to in the short run at least, or are we forced to identify them as a different sex than they really are? Naming may have a certain ambiguity and arbitrariness to it, but the language of he and she and the use of bathrooms and hotel rooms does not. And I will draw a line and say, I will not call he “she.” I will not call she “he.” And I will not intrude on the sexual privacy of a person of the opposite sex, or walk into a situation where they would intrude upon mine. READ MORE

Preferred Pronouns And Transgender Confusion

If you want to know how crazy things have gotten with preferred pronouns and the transgender movement, watch this video.

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NTEB SUNDAY SERVICE: From Poetry To Prophecy, The Doctrinal Dynamite Hidden Inside the Book Of Psalms

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July 6, 2025

Geoffrey Grider

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From poetry to prophecy, the book of Psalms packs a truckload of doctrinal dynamite about the First Advent, Second Advent and the Millennial reign of King Jesus

On this Sunday Service, there is a whole lot more contained in the book of Psalms than just ‘majestic language’ and ‘beautiful poetic meaning’ The Psalms, over half written by King David, are jam-packed with Bible doctrine and prophecy of soon-coming end times events. Preached live this morning at the Bible Believers Church inside the NTEB Bookstore. Services every Sunday morning starting at 11:00 AM in Palatka, Florida.

“My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?” Psalm 22:1 (KJB)

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Psalm 22:

“My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?” Psalm 22:1 (KJB)

“And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” Matthew 27:46 (KJB)

Psalm 79:

“O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.” Psalms 79:1 (KJB)

“And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.” Luke 21:20 (KJB)

Psalm 69:

“Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.” Psalm 69:1 (KJB)

“Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is therein; the city, and them that dwell therein: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl.” Jeremiah 47:2 (KJB)

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NTEB PROPHECY NEWS PODCAST: The FEMA Camps Have Finally Arrived And With Them Comes The Palantir Software To Facilitate The Next Lockdown

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July 4, 2025

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The America that Obama threatened us with is the America that Trump is now building, can anything stop what’s coming next?

The Republican National Convention began on a high note last year, with Donald Trump and the MAGA Movement beginning to sense that victory, once seemingly impossible, was now almost a certainty. The political landslide that happened in November bears witness to that. Indeed, election fever ran so high that many failed to notice the curious graphics chosen by the GOP to kickoff their convention. An Egyptian pyramid, the all-seeing Eye of Horus, and the Latin inscription ‘Novus Ordo Seclorum’, or New World Order. That’s what you voted for, and that’s what you have right now whether you believe it or not, whether you can see it or not. It’s here, and that’s the memo.

“Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you.” Habakkuk 1:5 (KJB)

On this episode of the Prophecy News Podcast, the Republicans are riding high today as we celebrate our 4th of July, recognizing the 249th anniversary of the founding of the United States of America. President Trump has chosen this day to sign the passage of his One Big Beautiful Bill, taking a well-earned victory lap. But I am here to remind you that today is also Day 1,936 of 15 Days To Flatten The Curve, and not only have end times events not stopped, not slowed down, they are rapidly accelerating. As you read this, at least a dozen other states now have plans to open up their own ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ to detain immigrants and illegals. These camps will be funded by our friends at FEMA. In addition to that, Donald Trump has tasked Peter Thiel over at Palantir with building a database to go with the FEMA Camps, and to build a database that’ll include every single America citizen as well. The America that Obama threatened us with is the America that Trump is now building, can anything stop what’s coming next? Today we show you from the Bible what’s actually happening in the world around us.

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An Urgent Request For Bibles From Our Missionary In Ukraine And 3 New Jails Join The Bibles Behind Bars Family To Jumpstart This 4th Of July Weekend

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July 3, 2025

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Maybe you’re celebrating the 4th of July with fireworks, but at Bibles Behind Bars we are rejoicing for this massive open door of Bible outreach the Lord has given us

When it rains, it pours, and requests for Bibles in English, Spanish and Ukrainian are pouring in this week. I just got this email from Bro. Jean and he writes “I am right now in Odessa, Ukraine handing out and placing Chick tracts in the Russian and the Ukrainian language. We sure could use some more Ukranian Bibles, thank you in advance!” Talk about a ‘letter from the front’, that’s about as real deal as it gets. We are boxing up his request right now, and looking at 3 new jails who just joined the ‘Triple B’ family.

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