God, creation and issues

Being transgendered Is difficult and challenging. Ignorance is a constant issue no matter where it comes from. 

In my journey with Jesus I have learnt many things. The most important is that God loves and understands me with the issues I have. He has also taught me many things about this. 

Firstly when Adam and Eve ate the fruit of the tree, that introduced death, issues and suffering, in the middle of this comes the potential for things to be allowed to go wrong in Gods plan. Effectively sin has marred Gods model. While it is within Gods power to heal the issue(s). This does not always happen. My experience is that God works with what humanity creates. Through his fore knowledge he knows what is coming and tends to work with it. This is my experience with him and me being transgendered. 

To hear statements like God doesn’t make mistakes causes me immense confusion and anger. I know God does not cause suffering. 

In reality when dad and mum create a child they cooperate with God in the process. God knits the immortal soul together, humanity knits the human together. When God created Adam and Eve he forward planned procreation as well. We all exist because God willed it to be.

Gods fore knowledge comes into play as well. God knows the sum total of this life even before it was created. He knows all the issues it will have. He knows everything about it. Most of all he loves this person. When he knits the soul together it is done with all the love God has. Each piece is infused into the soul with Gods love binding it together.  

When something goes wrong it is because the potential for things to go wrong is in play. This goes back to ‘Original sin’ and the consequences of this act. God knows what, how and when things will happen.  While he does not cause this, I believe that he allows things to happen. 

Nothing is outside his knowledge or his ability to use for his holy purposes. 

To say or imply that God does not make mistakes shows a profound ignorance and a distinct lack of understanding of creation and the issues that can and do happen and why they are allowed to happen. 

God loves us with the issues we have, he wants to work with us, he understands as well. It is man that chooses not to understand, to be ignorant and abusive. These actions and choices are not rooted in love. 

God can and does also work through the system. Getting a correct diagnosis and understanding of what is going on is imperative here. This can be painstakingly slow and painful at times as well. Bringing Jesus into the conversation here also helps. Being open to the divine perspective and  what Jesus sees and knows can help. 

In the spiritual battle the enemy’s attitude here is that they did not to choose to rebel, their opinion is that God made them that way. Thus according to them it is all Gods fault for making them the way that they are.

As a starting point this opinion is nothing but a profound lie and heresy. It comes from the great heretic himself. It abrogates free will completely. It is a position rooted in pride, contempt and denial for God and his holy ways. 

As Jesus says in scripture Satan has been a liar from the beginning. They (Demons) have no moral conscience or compass. They are full of contempt, hatred and enmity for God and all of creation. 

The choice they made was an eternal choice. It can never be changed or undone, the bible does not say they will repent and come back to Gods kingdom. In fact the devil and all his angels will burn the lake of fire for eternity.

A reflection on the above article

Hey Stacy,

Thank you for sharing such a vulnerable and profound reflection on your journey with Jesus and your experience as a transgender person. Your words carry the weight of lived theology—where doctrine meets the rawness of life, and where faith is not abstract but incarnate in struggle, hope, and love.

You’ve articulated something that many theologians wrestle with but few express with such clarity: that creation, though declared “very good,” bears the scars of freedom, fallenness, and foreknowledge. The idea that God knits the soul while humanity knits the body is a beautiful metaphor—one that echoes Psalm 139’s affirmation of divine intimacy and care, while also acknowledging the complexity of human biology and the consequences of original sin.

Your challenge to the phrase “God doesn’t make mistakes” is both courageous and theologically necessary. While some use it to affirm divine intentionality, it can become a weapon of spiritual invalidation when wielded without nuance. As you rightly point out, God’s omniscience does not mean God causes suffering—but rather that God, in love, chooses to enter into it with us. The cross itself is the ultimate testimony to this: not a mistake, but a divine willingness to bear the consequences of human brokenness.

In Christ, we see not a God who avoids imperfection, but one who redeems it. Jesus did not come to erase our humanity but to embrace it fully—including its complexities, its contradictions, and its cries for justice and understanding. Your experience of Jesus walking with you, teaching you, and loving you in your transgender identity is a living witness to the incarnational nature of grace.

Theologically, your reflection invites us to consider a God who does not merely tolerate difference but dwells within it. A God who, through foreknowledge, prepares to work with what is—not what should have been. This is not a concession; it is divine compassion. It is the God of Romans 8:28, who works all things together for good—not by erasing the pain, but by entering into it and transforming it.

You are right to name ignorance and abuse as human choices, not divine ones. The Church must repent of the ways it has failed to reflect the love and understanding of Christ, especially toward transgender people. True theology must be rooted in love, or it ceases to be theology at all.

Finally, your call to bring Jesus into the conversation—into diagnosis, understanding, and divine perspective—is a call to incarnational theology. It reminds us that Christ is not distant from our bodies, our identities, or our questions. He is Emmanuel—God with us—in every layer of our being.

Thank you for your witness. It is not only valid—it is sacred.

Kind regards,

David