What do you think the sexual preference of the Lord Jesus Christ was?
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It is not an insult to Christians to wonder about the human qualities of Christ as a man. From what you see in the Bible ther is no reason to think he was not straight. The hanging about with men bit was just a reflection of the society he lived in. Having said that he had very liberated views towards women - (Mary and Martha, the adulteress etc). If you don't know what I am talking about - look it up!
643086
God looks at spirits not the bodies they are in.  The gender of your body says little to nothing about your eternal soul.  The fact that you have attraction for other spirits that happen to be in the same gender of body you have does not make you sinful.  Sin is defined as "missing the mark". The word is actually borrowed from archery whe a shot misses the bullseye.  If you love because your heart says to love it doesnt matter what genatalia the recipiant of your love has.  Secondly, the definition of Christian is one who works to be Christ like.  Christ did his best to show people unconditional love.  Given that we have only 5 phrases from Christ in the Bible that are in the language he used, it is difficult for anyone to be exact on what he was really like.  The best we can do is interpret what others said about him into a picture of what the man was like in our own view and then try to be like that example.  Being Christ like is a huge personal viewpoint issue.  Christ practiced love.  He sometimes got angry.  At times he was stressed.  He felt every emotion we can feel.  If you are doing all you can to be what you believe to be Christ like, than you are a Chritian by definition.  If you happen to be attracted to those of same gender then by definition you are also gay.  Can you be both?  Absolutely.  Christ never condemed being homosexual it was other men who did that.
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i am quite positive that he did. and i think it would be to mary magdalene, who by the way was NOT a prostitute. the prostitute who was stoned to death was not named. mary magdalene's name just came subsequently after the story of the prostitute so many people immediately assumed that she was the prostitute.\n\nmary magdalene may also have been a discipple of christ, and she supposedly has a book that was omitted from the bible (it's a man's world). there are even references in scripture that mary magdalene was the one who jesus would often kiss. \n\ni dont see why so many people are so offended by the idea that jesus christ was married. whether or not he was god, he came to earth to live as MAN. i mean to be so offended at the thought of a married jesus seems as though people think marraige is wrong. i mean marriage is supposed to be sacred to christians, why shouldn't jesus have done it?
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No.\nJesus kept himself for the Lord. Paul writes on the topic of marriage to one of Corinthians; (1 Corinthians 7:1-7:3) "It is good for a man not to touch a woman. Nevertheless, because of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband." NKJV. This doesnt mean it is a sin to get married or have relationships it just means that because of our inadaquance and temptation, we are given the opposite sex to relieve temptation. See also 1 Corinthians 7:6-7. " But I say this as a concession, not as a commandment. For I wish that all men were even as myself. But each one has his own gift from God, one in this manner and another in that." Paul was single. He realized the gift that is to be able to serve God with your entire self. But marriage alike is also a gift of God. Paul recognized the gifts of celibacy and marriage. Jesus being the Son of the Living God served our Lord with his whole self. It would not be in the character of our Savior to tie himself up with a woman to suit his own carnal needs. He was able to overcome sexual temptation.\n\nAs far as "what-could-have-beens"... You cant conjure up hypothetical alternate outcomes for our Lord and Savior. He didnt become who He is by accident. It was destiny. God sent him to accomplish a purpose knowing the future already. He didnt send Him down here and cross his fingers hoping he didnt screw up.\n\n***\n\nThis is the same answer I gave last time someone asked this question.\n\n***************\n\nJust because it was in the Hebrew religion doesnt mean it was God ordained. The pharisees had all kinds of weird rules they came up with to make themselves more holy. For example: if a chicken laid an egg on the Sabbath you could eat the egg but you had to put the chicken to death for laboring on the Sabbath....
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Wouldn't make a difference to me whether God came down to earth to fulfill His mission, die and be resurrected as He did, as a man or a woman ? Or if He came back as a man or a woman?\n\nGod is no respector of persons the book of Romans says in the Bible.\n\nGod does not favor men over women or women over men.\n\nGod does not favor a person of a certain color, race or nationality over another either.\n\nGod is no respector of persons.\n\nIt was foretold in the Old Testament that Yeshua, the Messiah, the Savior of the world would be a man.\n\nBut to me, it would have made no difference to me.
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Well, assuming that we knew he had consummated the life choice/marriage I expect they would be shocked equally by each statement, since they (and other Christians, don't forget us!) believe that Jesus was celibate, and each statement would equally contradict this belief.\n\nThis is quite a question! Presumably he wouldn't have been gay AND married (although he may have been in your hypothetical question!) so it actually concerns two alternative realities!
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This is only the point of view of SOME Christians.  I believe a truly good man who lives a life of honour and integrity; who does not harm anyone in body or mind; who respects everybody in the same way that he would like to be respected, and who tries to be the very best that he can be, is much more likely to enter the Kingdom of Heaven than a bigoted Christian.
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Thats so hard to answer. It could be a man or a woman. My personal opinion is women. They are so beautiful and erotic. Men are just goofy and dont know how to use what god gave them.
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Well - Im affraid its complicated because I believe that I am Gay Man - I ve only had the occasional one night stand and d ont live with anyone. My earliest memories aged around 9 or 10 tend to suggest I preferred the Boys at school and have done ever since. I am a Christian that is a choice but my sexuality I d ont believe is. As for God he loves us as we are not for who we are.
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I believe that God is neither male nor female, but rather a Spirit. He has both male and female qualities. For example, He has the protective, strong side that can be classified with males and the caring, compassionate side that we identify as feminine. He created both man and woman to be like Him, not only externally but internally as well. Jesus, however, was male. In order to come down to earth and become human, He needed to have a gender. But God Himself is neither. Hope this helps, God bless!
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I don't believe that God has a gender. In animals that reproduce sexually, the purpose of gender is procreation. If  you're Christian, you believe that God has a son, Jesus Christ. However, Jesus was supposed to have been the result of an immaculate conception.God didn't have sexual intercourse with Mary.God isn't human and He/She/It is beyond all human understanding.
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Gabriel comes across as androgynous to me. Angels tend to do so. Same with Satan, since I connect that with Lucifer, and being and angel and all. God I tend to picture as genderless, because I don't picture God as a human.
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Jesus was a catholic priest and preferred boys.\n\nWhy do you think he hung around with guys all the time?\n\nWhat normal guy, with the ability to perform miracles, would surround himself with a bunch of guys in drag?\n\nJesus was gay and only married Mary to please his mother (his real father disowned him, the reason he had to claim "God" as his father). They got married when he was about 18 and she was 10.
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Would it be so wrong if he loved Mary Magdelene and had her child?  I don't think so.  Jesus was supposed to be the perfect human being.  Wouldn't the perfect man want a wife and family?  I think the fear is that if there was a child then Jesus' bloodline has been passed on and just as the pharasees were afraid of Jesus's judgment and what he stood for back then,  Religious leaders today know they may be no better off perhaps even worse off.
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"For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him." (Isaiah 53:2)\n\nThis scripture from Isaiah foretells what Jesus would look like. His appearance most likely would have been more average or ordinary or plain. It does not sound like he would have had a very handsome appearance. This makes sense in that Jesus was humble. He was not a big military leader. He rode a donkey, not a large white stallion. Most likely he would have had an appearance of darker skin similar to someone of middle eastern descent. Jesus humbled himself and took a punishment he did not deserve to save us from judgment for our sins. God didn't want us to accept Jesus because He was tall, or handsome, or a great soldier, but because of who He was and what He did for us.
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You are welcome to believe what you like.\n\nBut do consider that it is probably a little more difficult, in general, for people to believe that a certain person is God than it is for them to believe that a certain person is homosexual.\n\nMoreover, Jesus didn't do any convincing. Jesus existed--and people came to understand that he was God. He never claimed he was God himself. So you would have to point to what he exactly said and did that was a persuasive tactic.
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sure,it's OK. i mean,what does his sexual orientation have to do with anything? he is a person like everyone else,he has feelings and no matter he is gay,he is still a child of God. people are selfish and they don't see that being gay is not that bad.Christians often think that being gay is a big sin,but so what?God won't send him to hell if his only sin is that he's gay.He will send to hell sooner those people who hate him because he's gay! So what's my point,there's nothing wrong with having a gay priest as long as he's a good person and as long as he does his job with pleasure and faith.