Was Jesus a sexual being?

[Eddi]

Earlier today I was thinking to myself: Does God have a sexual orientation?

My first thoughts: I don’t think he does as he is incorporeal

He is only a “he” by convention. Forget it and move on.

However - what if we accept Jesus is God? Did (indeed, “does”) Jesus have a sexual orientation?

He’d have had to, even if his orientation was “asexual”

I think he was asexual in the sense that he was not a sexual being - with urges, desires, drives

First of all, he was free from sin - sexuality produces sin

Secondly, there is no evidence he was married (which was the only legit way of being sexual in that time and place)

Also, there is no evidence he ever had sexual/romantic feelings towards anyone

So no, I don’t think Jesus was a sexual being

Indeed I think if he was a sexual being that would have seriously undermined his ministry

I think he went to the cross as a virgin and was never in love or in a relationship

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

He was basically a celibate itinerant ascetic, so I view thinking about it too much as irrelevant.

 

[Rival]

I think it's likely. We have nothing written about him in his teenage years and 20s.

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

I think it's likely. We have nothing written about him in his teenage years and 20s.

He was supposedly just working with Joseph as a carpenter and it wasn't interesting enough to write about. Lol.

 

[Unveiled Artist]

Earlier today I was thinking to myself: Does God have a sexual orientation?

My first thoughts: I don’t think he does as he is incorporeal

He is only a “he” by convention. Forget it and move on.

However - what if we accept Jesus is God? Did (indeed, “does”) Jesus have a sexual orientation?

He’d have had to, even if his orientation was “asexual”

I think he was asexual in the sense that he was not a sexual being - with urges, desires, drives

First of all, he was free from sin - sexuality produces sin

Secondly, there is no evidence he was married (which was the only legit way of being sexual in that time and place)

Also, there is no evidence he ever had sexual/romantic feelings towards anyone

So no, I don’t think Jesus was a sexual being

Indeed I think if he was a sexual being that would have seriously undermined his ministry

I think he went to the cross as a virgin and was never in love or in a relationship

Jesus could have been gay, straight, bisexual, asexual, etc. No one knows. His behaviors are besides the point.

 

[February-Saturday]

Well, some early Christians believed Jesus was the lustful lover of Mary Magdelene, and "Christ" was the title of a separate spirit who possessed him.

 

[Harel13]

He was supposedly just working with Joseph as a carpenter and it wasn't interesting enough to write about. Lol.

Are you saying that an entity that you consider to be god had led, at some point in his life, a boring life? Blasphemy!
And that man isn't supposed to learn anything from that? Double blasphemy!

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

Are you saying that an entity that you consider to be god had led, at some point in his life, a boring life? Blasphemy!
And that man isn't supposed to learn anything from that? Double blasphemy!

Life is boring for us all at times. He was just getting the full human experience. Lol.

 

[Harel13]

Life is boring for us all at times. He was just getting the full human experience. Lol.

Good comeback. You have been saved from an eternity in Christian hell.

 

[Rival]

Are you saying that an entity that you consider to be god had led, at some point in his life, a boring life? Blasphemy!
And that man isn't supposed to learn anything from that? Double blasphemy!

To be fair, if the Christian Scripture were basically just a manual on how to make wooden furniture it would be much more useful to me lol.

 

[RabbiO]

@Eddi -

Based on your logic Jesus had fingernails and toenails that were several feet long because there is nothing in Christian scripture that says he did anything to keep their length down.

 

[Terry Sampson]

Okay, ... now this thread is an example of the point in my dreams where I just want to wake up.

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

Good comeback. You have been saved from an eternity in Christian hell.

Thank God, because "itinerant" kept wanting to come out as "illiterate" on my phone and God would've struck me down for that.

 

[Harel13]

To be fair, if the Christian Scripture were basically just a manual on how to make wooden furniture it would be much more useful to me lol.

On one hand, I think it would be fascinating to get info on Second Temple Era woodcraft, but on the other hand, I very much doubt that over billions of people would take the time to preserve such a text for thousands of years.

 

[Rival]

On one hand, I think it would be fascinating to get info on Second Temple Era woodcraft, but on the other hand, I very much doubt that over billions of people would take the time to preserve such a text for thousands of years.

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Post 14: Second Temple Era Woodcraft.

-RF.

 

[viole]

sexuality produces sin

True, by producing sinners.

Ciao

- viole

 

[sojourner]

If Jesus was fully human, then Jesus, when in corporeal form, was a sexual being.

 

[Kenny]

First of all, he was free from sin - sexuality produces sin

Why do you say sexuality produces sin?

 

[viole]

Why do you say sexuality produces sin?

It produces sinners, ergo a lot of additional sin, and CO2, I guess

Ciao

- viole

 

[Kenny]

It produces sinners, ergo a lot of additional sin, and CO2, I guess

Ciao

- viole

Any law produces violators of a law... but to say that sexuality produces sin would be wrong. My 3 children and their spouses are sexuality beings but it never created them sinners.