Joseph Was Trans?? TikTok Is Rewriting the Bible

Added: 2026-05-05

[00:00:00]Joseph's father embraces him for who he was. Difference, queer, and gender non-conforming.

[00:00:06]>> Did he just say that? That's not in the Bible. See, this is what Tik Tok is doing to scripture.

[00:00:12]>> Jesus didn't have to die for your sins.

[00:00:14]Um, he could have just God just could have forgiven people.

[00:00:18]>> Genesis 1 is not trying to address gender or sexuality.

[00:00:22]>> These videos are going viral, but they're teaching people to read scripture completely wrong. And if you don't see these mistakes these people are making, you're going to start doing the exact same thing. Let's get into it.

[00:00:35]Welcome back to Wise Disciple. My name is Nate and I'm helping you become the effective Christian that you are meant to be. Here's what you're going to notice in every single one of these clips. They're not truly reading the Bible. They're forcing it to agree with them.

[00:00:47]>> Jesus didn't have to die for your sins.

[00:00:49]Um he could have just God just could have forgiven people. human beings do it all the time and we don't require a weird blood sacrifice. Like in the Old Testament, he wants people to sacrifice innocent animals to be able to forgive them. He set that system up. He >> So, did you catch this? The claim is God could just forgive. Humans do it all the time, so why require sacrifice, right?

[00:01:14]But this assumes something that isn't actually true. It assumes that forgiveness is free. See, in real life, ladies and gentlemen, forgiveness always costs something. Think about that. If someone wrongs you and you forgive them, you absorb that cost. You carry the loss, uh the pain, the injustice, right?

[00:01:36]Forgiveness does not eliminate justice.

[00:01:39]It just transfers that cost. So, the question is not, can God forgive? Of course, he can. No, the question is more like, can God forgive while still being just? Because God isn't just some offended person. He's the standard of justice and the judge of all the earth.

[00:01:58]If he simply overlooks evil, then justice itself collapses and evil becomes trivial. And if God really did something like what this young lady is proposing, she'd get mad about that.

[00:02:10]Right? See, scripture talks about this.

[00:02:12]Romans 3 says that God put forward Christ as a propitiation by his blood to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. In other words, God doesn't ignore sins. He deals with it in a way that preserves justice. Now, this is where people misunderstand the Old Testament. All right? Leviticus 17:1 says, "For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it for you on the altar to make atonement for your souls. For it is the blood that makes atonement by the life."

[00:02:49]That's not God being arbitrary or weird.

[00:02:52]It's God teaching us something fundamental. Sin brings death.

[00:02:58]Justice has a cost.

[00:03:01]The sacrifices were never the final solution. They were symbolic and they were pointing forward to something greater because the Bible also says that uh those animal sacrifices couldn't actually take away sin permanently.

[00:03:15]So what's the point here? The point is that God is teaching us something vital.

[00:03:20]Sin costs us our life and atonement is tied to life given in place of life. And this young lady misses that completely.

[00:03:32]The real question is, how can a good God remain just but also make a way for us to have a second chance at life? God says, "I will bear the cost myself."

[00:03:44]That's the difference.

[00:03:47]Now, this next one completely rewrites Jesus. Watch this. People who say that Jesus is the only path to God have missed a central point of the gospel.

[00:03:56]and what Christianity became would be completely unrecognizable to Jesus.

[00:04:01]>> This guy again. Huh? Look, that might sound persuasive in this guy's circles, but it only works if you ignore what Jesus actually said. Look at Jesus claim about himself in John 14. Jesus said to him, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the father except through me." Does that sound like Jesus teaching that there are other paths to God? Hey, no. If this guy is saying that we've missed the gospel, I guess Jesus missed it, too, huh? He also said that Christianity would be unrecognizable to Jesus. I I take it because Jesus taught multiple paths to God, right? But see, this is begging the question because he's assuming religious pluralism without first demonstrating it from the scripture. He he just makes his bald claim and then builds his presentation like a toupe and put it right on top.

[00:04:53]>> Hi, my name is Matty Mayal. I'm a Bible scholar specializing in gender and sexuality.

[00:05:01]>> That's like a financial adviser who specializes in lottery tickets, right?

[00:05:05]>> And I'm here to tell you that no, it is not a sin to be transgender. Scholars almost unanimously agree that Genesis 1 is Hebrew poetry and Genesis 1 through3 is a creation myth. Within Hebrew poetry, there is a common convention known as a merorism.

[00:05:22]>> Ah, this again, right?

[00:05:25]>> Meism is a poetic convention where you use two extremes to indicate the whole of something. We still use mirrorism all the time when we speak in our day-to-day life. For instance, when you hear somebody say, "I worked day and night on this project." We understand that to mean that they worked an extended period of time on that project. Not just day, not just night, but everything in between. So, in Genesis 1, when God creates day and night, darkness and light, heaven and earth, water and shore, we know that he didn't just create those two extremes. Of course, God created the twilight, the sunrise, the sunset. He created the marshes, the swamps, the shore. The point of Genesis 1 is to poetically describe God's creation of everything. So when Genesis 1 says that God created male and female, it is of course not excluding people who live outside of that binary.

[00:06:23]>> The trick with this one is very subtle.

[00:06:25]Okay, did you catch it? So the claim begins by identifying something that is actually true. Okay, the Hebrew authors do sometimes use mirrorisms in order to communicate. But here's the problem. Not every pair of opposites in scripture is a mirrorism.

[00:06:42]The real question that you have to ask is what is the scripture actually communicating right here? So God created man in his own image. In the image of God he created him. Male and female he created them. This isn't just poetic description. It's tied directly to human identity and function. All right? Just one verse later in verse 28, uh that distinction is connected to this. God blessed them and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it." Well, golly, I I guess, you know, since this is all poetry, then this must be talking about an espresso machine, right?

[00:07:22]It couldn't actually be talking about procreation, right? which actually trades on there being males and females, which is entirely central to the creation mandate here in Genesis 1:28 because that would mean God created a binary, right? This is certainly how Jesus spoke about this passage in Matthew chapter 19, right? Jesus didn't treat male and female as if there's some poetic device. He treats it as a foundational category of creation that informs marriage. And why did he do that? Because there is no marriage without a say it with me gender binary.

[00:07:59]This is how marriage fulfills the creation mandate to be fruitful and multiply. Amen. Did you know that the Bible celebrates gender nonconformity?

[00:08:08]Let's talk about Joseph. Yes, the one with the colorful coat. The Hebrew phrase describing Joseph's garment kat pim literally means a dress worn by women. And Uh okay. Are you noticing uh the pattern here? Right. The this just outlandish claims based on exaggeration and misinterpretation or horrible exes Jesus or all of the above. Right? We're already off on the wrong foot with an example of textbook uh question begging.

[00:08:44]Ancient scholars even describe Joseph as feminine, graceful, wearing makeup, and proudly showing off his beautiful dress.

[00:08:51]>> Yeah. Which scholars would that be, Brandon?

[00:08:54]Which uh where where is this explained in the scripture? You know what I mean?

[00:08:59]Let's back up. Now, if you highlight robe of many colors, okay, using Logos Bible software, it's going to give you some more information about this. All right. The bottom line is scholarly consensus says that the phrase likely means long robe with sleeves.

[00:09:17]See, there is actually a dispute in the scholarship, but it's over whether the phrase is talking about a multicolored robe or just a long sleeved robe. But the indication is not up for dispute.

[00:09:30]This is a garment that signifies status and privilege, possibly even royalty. You know, the Bible says Jacob gave this robe to Joseph because he loved him more than his other sons. Why? Because he was Rachel's son. So, you have to know the story, ladies and gentlemen. Rachel was the wife that Jacob truly desired.

[00:09:52]Thankfully, the Bible records the whole thing for us. This was a dysfunctional family that God uses. That means that Jacob favored Joseph over his other children. And guess what happens in this kind of a dynamic? It breeds resentment and anger. And what's beautiful about this biblical account is that Joseph's father embraces him for who he was.

[00:10:12]Different queer and gender non-conforming. Joseph's brothers, however, they reacted violently, trying to erase his identity. Sound familiar?

[00:10:22]Today, many Christians demonize and attack trans and gender non-conforming individuals, using their religion as a way to demonize an identity that they don't understand. But the very Bible that they use as a sacred weapon contains this story of a father affirming his gender non-conforming son's identity. And Joseph flourishes because of that. The word smithing and the rhetoric probably works for his audience. But for anybody who knows the Bible and Christians who live by it, this is all propaganda and it's designed to read modern identity categories back into the scripture. You know, so if if you present the gospel, which by the way is not an invitation to identify by your sexual desire, uh, but entails repenting of your sinful lifestyle and picking up your cross and following after Jesus.

[00:11:13]Brandon Robertson calls that demonizing.

[00:11:16]The Bible calls that love.

[00:11:19]Paul says, "We are ambassadors for Christ, imploring people to be reconciled with God." That's 2 Corinthians 5. Also, look at this.

[00:11:27]Ephesians 4. rather speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head into Christ.

[00:11:35]Right? Does that sound like we're supposed to affirm people over the truth? Does that sound like we're supposed to replace the truth with something more comfortable? No.

[00:11:47]You know, you know what Tik Tok is? I think the Apostle Paul prophesied about Tik Tok. Look at this. 2 Timothy 4. For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions.

[00:12:06]Do you understand?

[00:12:09]They will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.

[00:12:16]Yeah, I get it. Do you?

[00:12:20]All right, here's what all these videos have in common. You ready? They start with a conclusion and then they go looking for Bible verses to support it.

[00:12:29]Hey, that's not interpretation. That's imagination.

[00:12:33]And once you do that, you can make the Bible say anything that you want. You can turn the gospel into, hey, just be kind, guys. You can turn Jesus into one option among many. You can turn sin into self-expression.

[00:12:49]See, the question isn't whether the Bible fits our worldview. The question is whether we're willing to let our worldview be corrected by the Bible.

[00:12:59]Amen. The Bible does not start with us.

[00:13:02]It starts with God.

[00:13:04]It doesn't ask us what feels right. It tells us what's true. And the real gospel isn't always comfortable, but it is good, ladies and gentlemen, because it tells us the truth about sin and the truth about justice and the truth about a God who loves us enough to step in and to deal with it himself.

[00:13:27]Don't fall for this. Don't fall for Tik Tok theology. Learn to read the Bible on its own terms. Amen. Also, would you do me a favor? Let's keep praying for these people. You know what I mean? Uh if I was an atheist and Tik Tok were around back then, you would probably have seen me uh up there saying some crazy stuff, too, you know. So, let's pray for these folks that their eyes are opened, that they will repent, that while there's still breath in their lungs, they have time to turn their lives around and follow after Jesus. Amen. To follow after the truth. All right. Hey, if this helped you see what's actually going on, do me a favor and hit the like button.

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