Sexual Orientation of Jesus Christ

[Oni]

what about the obivious. If say Jesus was Gay. Would Christians maybe accepted gay people more? or at least be more open to the idea? Maybe it could have become something drilled into the religiuos word and got bent out of shape causing something like this to happen....

Women are property, only for the use of reproduction. Men and women can love whom they want. But women must be loyal the there male husband.

[Kritter]

The Christian religion as a whole will never accept the fact if by fluke chance Jesus was gay and/or bi. That religion has spent decades proclaiming that God/Jesus is against homosexuality. And for it to be smacked back to their faces will only enrage the followers. So by that logic, I don’t think Christian would accept gays more, in fact, I think it might just cause more of a phobia/violence. However, I am sure there will be some Christian branches that will accept it and be more open (might take them time though).

[Oni]

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReYfDlIa-Z8" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReYfDlIa-Z8</a>

I supose here is one persons perspective on it. He makes some interesting points.

Like does it really matter if he was, would it damage his teachings?

[Taylor-MadeAK]

There's really no evidence one way or the other. John was called "the beloved disciple", but that doesn't imply sex. Jesus was a Rabbi (I'm not going to quote chapter and verse; but he was addressed as 'rabbi' at least once in the gospels -something which a title not given lightly) and that implies -if he was doing everything which he was supposed to be doing then he would have been married (which he would have been to have been "a man without sin" as the bible states him as being). I say this because I believe that was expected of rabbis then (but I could be wrong).

But again, there's no real evidence that Jesus was gay, straight or what.

You're making a baseless assumption here.  The word "rabbi" translates to "teacher."  Being addressed as such two thousand years ago doesn't carry the same connotations as it does today.

Only in the fact that Jesus claimed to be the Son of God and I claim to be a God. ...

mmm So I am the next Christ eh... This could be fun.

Jesus Christ never claimed to be "the Son of God."  When he referred to himself at all, it was as the "son of man."  The "Son of God" assumption comes from two places: First, from Mary herself going around telling everybody that an Angel told her that she would be inexplicably preggers and that it would be with Jehovah's (YHVH) kid - for all we know, Mary could have had a brain tumor causing her to hallucinate and forget that she was not, in fact, a virgin.  Second, when Ceasar asked Jesus "Are you the Son of God?", Jesus' response was "I am what you think I am." - religious zealots love this kind of ambiguity because it allows them to interpret it as an admission of fact.  If I had been in Jesus' shoes facing execution at the hands of the Romans and there was nothing I could do about, I'd be equally likely to make that kind of resigned response: "It doesn't matter what I am, because you're not going to believe me anyway.  So just think what you want and kill me already."

Before any of the rest of you ding me for leaving out Jesus' miracles, I'm gonna say that I deliberately left them out.  In the intervening 2000 years there have been a multitude of similar miracles performed by people who have yet to be touted about as "the Second Coming of Christ our Lord."  You don't have to be the Son of God to perform such miracles, you know.  You need only ask for God's help when you most desperately need it.

And Oni?  Don't make me slap that hubris out of you.

[Oni]

What it's my "not a cult" and I can serve it punch if I want to. LOL.

[Im1ru1]

To TMAK---is there THAT MUCH slapping in the world?
To Oni---Punch is ok...Kool-Aid isn't.

Herman

[Taylor-MadeAK]

There is if you use the flat of your sword to do the slapping.

[Im1ru1]

*giggles uncontrollably*
Now WHERE was that sword?

[Oni]

Will be in the mail in a few months. LOL.