What was Jesus' sexual orientation?

[oldbadger]

Who was that naked boy in the Garden of Gethsemane?

"And there followed him a certain young man, having a linen cloth cast about his naked body; and the young men laid hold on him: and he left the linen cloth, and fled from them naked.".
- Mark 14:51, 52

He wasn't naked, he was dressed normally, and a follower of Jesus.
At the point of Jesus;'s arrest this boy fled, his clothing was grabbed by officials, but he struggled out of his clothes and ran free.
No sexual innuendo there.
This might well have been Mark...................

 

[Rick O'Shez]

I can honestly say that trying to figure out people's sexual orientation isn't the first thing that jumps into my head. LOL

My gaydar is pretty reliable but is usually in sleep mode.

 

[oldbadger]

It's an interesting speculation that several books look into, probably the most interesting I've read is

which depicts Magdalene as Jesus's lover and as the mother of his child.​

Very very interesting.............. you're widely and deeply educated for a pagan p )
Yep......... Mary Magdalene and Salome, of Magdala on the West coast of the Lake.
I wonder if she was 'Mary of Magdala'?
Anyway..... both women followed Jesus to the end, even when everyone else had sodded off, = love?
I think that Jesus was an heterosexual, not that I would worry, whatever his sexuality.

But that young man who legged it at Jesus's arrest.......... it is interesting that only G-Mark mentions this, possibly because it was an intense memory in the mind of one of the writers or editors........ maybe Mark?

 

[Rick O'Shez]

Is the fact that all 12 disciples were men significant? Or was that just a cultural thing?

 

[oldbadger]

My gaydar is pretty reliable but is usually in sleep mode.

............. at you great age I would expect it to be snoring soundly!

 

[oldbadger]

Is the fact that all 12 disciples were men significant? Or was that just a cultural thing?

I do like Dan Browne's 'take' of 'Da Vinci's 'Last Supper'........ John DOES look like a woman...... Mary Magdalene?
There were lot of female followers, but, you know....... they didn't have the status at that time, did they?

 

[Rick O'Shez]

I do like Dan Browne's 'take' of 'Da Vinci's 'Last Supper'........ John DOES look like a woman...... Mary Magdalene?
There were lot of female followers, but, you know....... they didn't have the status at that time, did they?

Yes, I assumed it was a cultural thing. Does the New Testament say anything about female followers?

 

[Rick O'Shez]

............. at you great age I would expect it to be snoring soundly!

That sounds like a slightly gay comment actually.

 

[Pegg]

I imagine it would have been very difficult for a perfect man to be attracted to anything less then a perfect women.

 

[Rick O'Shez]

All women are perfect, aren't they?

 

[Terrywoodenpic]

It is difficult to visualize Jesus as a married man.
however It would not belittle him in any way were he to have been so..
women played a central role in men's lives at the time, and teachers were "Expected" to be married.
The women around Jesus certainly took care of him, no less than Mary Magdalene did.
In some ways she had a special relationship with him, recognised in his appearing to her first at the tomb,
and in her acting as apostle to the apostles, as is confirmed in the Gnostic Gospel of Mary.
However any marriage is pure conjecture.

The Gnostic Gospels may not be graced with being included the Bible but they are equally valid as source documents of the time

 

[oldbadger]

Yes, I assumed it was a cultural thing. Does the New Testament say anything about female followers?

Yes........ several times.

 

[Aupmanyav]

But did not they find the graves of Jesus, Joseph and Mary Magdalene in Jerusalem? A child too Judah bar Yehoshua? The Talpiot tomb. You were discussing that above.

 

[oldbadger]

That sounds like a slightly gay comment actually.

Many a jest........
I think that we are all slightly gay.....
It would be interesting to wire folks up to polygraph-type gear and just show them mild recordings of men and women of various adult age groups undressing, bathing etc.

And while we're doing that I would like to run a 2nd experiment. Wire up the blokes who say they 'go' for model-type glamour, show some glamour women and then show some more rounded ladies. We would need extra-large fuses before showing the latter, methinks.

 

[Rick O'Shez]

I think that we are all slightly gay.....

Oh, undoubtedly.

But in terms of the OP, would it be a major problem for Christians if it turned out that Christ was gay? I mean in view of the homophobic attitudes you often see with fundamentalist Christian types? Would the preference be for Christ to be asexual, pure and chaste?

 

[Marisa]

My gaydar is pretty reliable but is usually in sleep mode.

I only worry about it if I want to sleep with that person, and I've been happily married for 18 years.

 

[Marisa]

All women are perfect, aren't they?

5 minutes with me ought to dispel that myth for ya. HA!

 

[oldbadger]

Oh, undoubtedly.

But in terms of the OP, would it be a major problem for Christians if it turned out that Christ was gay? I mean in view of the homophobic attitudes you often see with fundamentalist Christian types? Would the preference be for Christ to be asexual, pure and chaste?

Probably.......... very probably.
Ummmm...... almost certainly.
...you said 'fundamentalist...' That would be a 'definitely'.

But then, Fundamentalist Christianity is not much about Jesus, it's all about Christ.
Not much about love, more about judgement.
Apart from the occasional Brethren, and the odd stern Baptist and Methodist, I don't think that we suffer from all that around here.

I tell you what....... if I was surrounded by such attitudes, all the time, I could easily become a bit like some of the more aggressive RF atheists. I just hate big-H hypocrisy.

 

[Marisa]

Many a jest........
I think that we are all slightly gay.....
It would be interesting to wire folks up to polygraph-type gear and just show them mild recordings of men and women of various adult age groups undressing, bathing etc.

And while we're doing that I would like to run a 2nd experiment. Wire up the blokes who say they 'go' for model-type glamour, show some glamour women and then show some more rounded ladies. We would need extra-large fuses before showing the latter, methinks.

I'm going to get nailed for de-railing the topic, but pheremone tests have been conducted. Participants, gay men, straight, and gay and straight women were given t-shirts to wear for a period of time without washing them. Later they were asked to blind sniff the shirts and give their reactions. Gay men were attracted to the shirts worn by gay men, but not women, straight men were attracted to the shirts worn by women, and women were attracted to all the shirts, including women. Women's sexuality tends to be much more fluid than men's sexuality.

 

[Rick O'Shez]

5 minutes with me ought to dispel that myth for ya. HA!

A perfect response!