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 So a few weeks ago I found this article https://www.deracheha.org/dress-4-keli-gever/ ...It is a very long and deep dive article about cross-dressing about what the source of the Bible, The Torah, says about cross-dressing in Devarim 22:5 (Deuteronomy 22:5).  Like many of the other articles that have been published there are arguments with in the Jewish community about the interpretation of Devarim 22:5.  Yes, I am using the original name for a reason, the origins of the the Bible like I said.  The argument ranges from cross-dressing being acceptable to not being accepted at any level.  There are Rabbinical leaders that suggest that Dev, 22:5 is about expressing gender identity without having lascivious thoughts or purpose, that is to say that cross-dressing for the purpose of seeking sexual encounters from the same gender or perhaps the opposite gender is forbidden (abomination) .  Male cross-dressers are not to enter the women's spaces for any reaso...

 Naomi and Ruth, A love story through strength and perserveriance-  Ruth was one of the daugters-in-law to Naomi who suffered a triple tradgedy by the death of her husband and two sons feel that God had abandoned her.  So Naomi, Ruth and Orpah decided to leave their home and move on to their respective lands of birth, but upon their departure Naomi attempts to send her daughters away so they do not have suffer her fate.  Orpah relents and returns to her home land while Ruth proclaims her unyeilding devotion to Naomi (Ruth 1:14-17), but the language used would also suggest a sense of something more than just a companionship (much like that of David and Jonathan), a romantic love.  "And they lifted up their voice, and wept again: Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clave unto her."  The word clave being a past tense of cleave is used to describe a marriage or at least a pludge of love and devotion beyond a platonic relationship.  In verse 16 of the ...

The mind of a Trans person.  Fear, fear is a very powerful emotion.  We as human beings understand fear not from the horror movie genre but from real world experiences.  Maybe you had a car accident or fell from a tree or any number of things that would teach us how to be afraid, but there is a fear in many trans people when they are young.  A fear so deep that it almost unspeakable, your heart pounding so hard you think it's going to come out of your chest, beating so loud that anyone with in an ear shot can hear you, you experience rapid breathing all the while you are almost in tears.  That is the feeling of getting caught cross dressing or sometimes nearly getting caught, that fear that dread of what will happen and what will be said because somewhere deep down inside you, you know that it is not acceptable.  At 5-6-7 years old you already know that something is amiss, you are not like anyone else for reasons you cannot yet fathom.  Another emotion...

 Thecla.  Who, you may ask.  Let's take a slight step and talk women of the Bible.  Why?  A friend of mine has mentioned to me several times that the women of the Bible are often over looked, and she of course is correct.  i cannot recall a time of sitting a church where the book of Ruth was used or even talked about.  Last night I sat down to do some research on all the women that had some role to play in the Bible, I came up with about 53 women.  So, I am starting with someone least know because she is not mentioned in the Bible but she is a companion to the apostle to certain extent and her tale is one of hope and tragedy.  Thecla was a young woman in Ionia who was promised to a young man but when she heard Paul speaking about Jesus and God, Thecla listened from her window above the crowd.  She decided to follow God and Paul and dedicate her life to help spread the gospel to the masses, and to that extent she became a traveling compan...

 Something occurred to me this evening, there is a serious language shift in 1 Timothy 1:10 because I have five different bibles sitting around me that have similar language in once sense but the content changes.  The first Bible is from 1901, more specifically the Revised Standard Edition from 1901, the next bible is the 2011 New International Version, the Harper Collins Study Bible including Apocryphal and Deuterocanonical Books, The New American Bible Revised Edition-St Joseph Edition, and The Guideposts Parallel Bible which has the King James-NIV-Living Bible-Revised Standard.  In doing a comparative analysis the verse does not align with each other with a few exceptions.   1901 RSV- "for fornicators, for abusers of themselves with men, for menstealers, for liars, for false swearers, and if there be anything else contrary to the sound doctrine..." Harper Collins- "Fornicators, sodomites, slave traders, liars, perjurers, and what ever else is contrary to the ...

 The things you notice.  This past weekend I was cleaning my house and had one of my favorite anime shows on the TV, Bubblegum Crisis, which I have watched many many times before except for one thing and it was a small thing.  The show revolves around the future Tokyo, the police department and an elite all female fight force, one scene in particular show a city map and the police districts and you would think that they would be in Japanese.  They were references to the movie 'Top Gun' which was a 1986 movie and 'Bubblegum Crisis' was made in 1988, each district was named after Meg Ryan, Val Kilmer, Maverick, Goose, etc..  What does this have to do with all the Biblical research that I have been posting?  It's about what you don't see,  most people that I have met take the Bible at face value or if the read any commentaries they are only commentaries that support what they believe the Bible to say and not what the Bible actually says.  Let's face ...