The following "Question" was asked by a member of the congregation at Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California, and "Answered" by their pastor, John MacArthur Jr. It was transcribed by Anjela Paje of Spokane, WA, from the tape, GC 1301-Q, titled "Bible Questions and Answers Part 19."  A copy of the tape can be obtained by writing, Word of Grace, P.O. Box 4000, Panorama City, CA 91412 or by dialing toll free 1-800-55-GRACE.  ©1980. All Rights Reserved.

Question

I was talking to my neighbors about homosexuality, and that God made male and female, and she said, “What about morphidites?” She has a friend, earlier in the girl’s life, she was a female, and, then, she decided that they had made the wrong decision, and she switched over to being a male.

Answer

Can't do that!

Ask her this, “Would you agree that human beings have two legs, two arms, two eyes, a nose, and a mouth?” And, two ears. Yes. What about a one-legged man? What about a guy who is blind? That is an exception. There will be some physiological freaks. But, what's happening is people are starting to throw this term around: hermaphrodite, morphodite, and all that stuff, as a justification for a sex change operation. I had a guy, I had something? say to me, I do not know what, was sitting in my office...said, “I was a woman trapped in a man’s body.” And, I said, “That's absurd.” I mean, you could say you are a horse trapped in a man’s body, for that matter. That’s probably what Nebuchadnezzar said. But, that does not make it true just because you said that. So, the medical phenomena of a person who is born, sometimes, with a deformed genital capacities or somewhere in the middle, which is a freakish kind of thing, certainly does not mean that that is a normal third kind of person. Because no two of them are ever alike. It is a freak thing.

Question (continues)

Would they then run tests to see what is more predominate?

Answer (continues)

You can't run tests to see what is more predominate. Not physiological tests.

Question (continues)

So how would you raise that person, then?

Answer (continues)

That is just a very rare situation. If a person were in that situation, and it has occurred medically, you would have to make a decision at the moment of the time they were born because some surgery would have to be done, I would imagine. You would have to treat that immediately. And, then that thing would be settled. But, even in that case, there would be a dominant factor.

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