Was Jesus gay? Probably (translation, bible, faith, Biblical)
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As a mortal, having intercourse with women would be fitting, and to be celibate would be very abnormal. Having sex with a young man, in the Hellenized world also was quite unexceptional.
Would it be very abnormal for Jesus to take a young man and in the religious initiation have sex with him? The Greeks and Romans both approved such if done with the spirit of a mentor. Bisexuality was the norm. Three centuries of Greek and Roman domination had its effects. Mark had written in his fiction on the life of Jesus things that were deemed proper in the Hellenized world? Could not Mark, who was most certainly not Mark of the disciples, be Hellenized? “Modern research often proposes as the author an unknown Hellenistic Jewish Christian, possibly in Syria and perhaps shortly after the year 70.” Clement of Alexandria in his letter acknowledges a complete and suppressed original edition of Mark’s Gospel, a copy in the Church’s library in Alexandria. Thus the most consistent explanation of the missing passages including the one concerning Jericho is that the Church Counsel was not as Hellenized as Mark, and that they upheld the Hebraic injunction against Greek love.
Maybe Pope Fancis is gay. Maybe Mother Teresa was a lesbian OMG! And King James might have been gay. Maybe St. Paul was gay. And maybe God himself is gay! He is a trinity after all! An eternal same-sex threesome!
Threads like this are silly IMO.
I think it's pretty obvious that this thread exists only to ruffle the feathers of conservative Christians.
Maybe Pope Fancis is gay. Maybe Mother Teresa was a lesbian OMG! And King James might have been gay. Maybe St. Paul was gay. And maybe God himself is gay! He is a trinity after all! An eternal same-sex threesome!
Threads like this are silly IMO.
I think it's pretty obvious that this thread exists only to ruffle the feathers of conservative Christians.
This is by no means created to ruffle the feathers of any bird or birds. This is a serious discussion.
"When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing near, he said to his mother, 'Woman behold your son!' Then he said to the disciple. 'Behold your mother!' And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home."
That disciple was John whom Jesus, the gospels affirm, loved in a special way. All the other disciples had fled in fear. Three women but only one man had the courage to go with Jesus to his execution. That man clearly had a unique place in the affection of Jesus. In all classic depictions of the Last Supper, a favorite subject of Christian art, John is next to Jesus, very often his head resting on Jesus's breast. Dying, Jesus asks John to look after his mother and asks his mother to accept John as her son. John takes Mary home. John becomes unmistakably part of Jesus's family.
The homosexual option simply seems the most likely. The intimate relationship with the beloved disciple points in that direction. It would be so interpreted in any person today.
If you don't find this interesting that's fine, but to call it a troll thread is not only inaccurate but insulting to the author of the article and to the gay community, that most likely includes jesus
If you don't find this interesting that's fine, but to call it a troll thread is not only inaccurate but insulting to the author of the article and to the gay community, that most likely includes jesus
don't care.
don't care what the dude thinks or if Jesus is gay.
Maybe the author of the article shouldn't be stupid. Paul Oestreicher is a trolling fool. It's a stupid attempt to stir the pot and make money. Gays want more rights and this is just another attempt to force it down our throats. They can get marries now, so, go get married and go away.
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Either way, it is all good. 