Jesus spent alot of time with "the boys", Is he considered gay by todays standards?
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you know sunspotter these type of infantile posts are past their sell by date and incredibly boring.
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Does it matter?  I think of Jesus as an olive-skinned man with brown eyes and dark hair, because he was born in Bethlehem, a district in a Middle Eastern country.  The fact that I have blue eyes and fair hair doesn't make me want to claim him as having that description.  Can't we all agree that Jesus was/is all things to all men?
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No he's a gay pedophile.
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Not if they ask God to forgive them. In the Bible, it says being gay is a sin. Many people sin, and God forgives them. If Bin Laden asks God for His forgiveness, He will forgive them, so I guess He will forgive gays
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Yes and no.\n\nHistorical Jesus, might have had a wide range of emotions and feelings that all flesh and blood people have growing up, and hormonally changing.\n\nBiblical Jesus has two instances... one is throwing out the money changers out of the temple and the other is cursing and killing a fig tree.....\n\n\nWhat does it mean though in respect to the overall picture, is personal to everyone. I do not have the answer.\n\n\n\nI respect the divinity of Christ's message but also accept that the Bible is not history but a guide book.
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Its perfectly OK. C'mon people we are living in the 21st century now.\n\nAnd for all those, who use Bible as a weapon against homosexual desires, I'd like to tell you that its not Jesus himself that wrote it. How can you gaurantee that whosoever wrote it, did not misinterpret Jesus. \n\nIts only the "personal interpretations" of the homophobics that make it against it. Even rayburnlarry above has cited a "version" of Bible, while going against same sex love.\n\nJesus, the messiah always promoted love, understanding and accepting those who might be different from us.\n\nNothing makes God, the Jesus more happier than seeing Love rather than hatred and selfishness.
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Priory of Sion and Da Vinci notwithstanding, of course it is possible. Remember that there are many years in the life of Jesus not accounted for in the Bible. Anyone who thinks that he did not have relations during this time period is being a little naive. I'm not saying that there is a conspiracy, just that we need to look at him as a man. Now...what would Jesus do?
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No.  Jesus was very sexist.\n\nThere were no Catholics in Jesus' time.  How can someone criticize Catholics for being sexist before they even existed.
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You are right, the Bible doesn't say much about his childhood or early adult life.  Chances are his life during that stage was pretty ordinary and didn't make for good story telling.  The bigger picture of Jesus outside of teh Biblical description is referred to as the "Historical Jesus".  These descriptions may not always set well with Christians.  But there are plenty of historians have pieced together facts from multiples sources that paint a much broader picture of who Jesus really was.
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Probably not gay.  He had an interview in Playgirl back in the mid to late 70's.  He mentioned the way he likes to be approached by a woman wanting him for sex.  So I say he was straight.
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they're not. a few people who are gay hide their orientation . By the way , he was accused, it hasn't been proven. Any fool can accuse.
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Jesus was a good little jew boy and always did what his mother told him. Joseph was just his stepdad. He was expected to be married with children by the time he was 26, so I would guess he was married and had children. To do otherwise would be irreligious. I do not know if you were aware of it but Jesus was a very religious person. Breeding was an absolute requirement of religiousity. The jewish bible said to go forth and multiply. If your brother died before having children, you were required by law to knock up his ol lady. Better hope she was cute.\nIt was the later perverted priests of the false religion formed after Jesus that gave credence to the theory that Jesus was a celibate male because the Wierd Gay priests hated women and thought that you could not be holy if you defiled yourself with female contact. So they invented the myth that Jesus was celibate and that all priests should follow suit. We now know that is hogwash to cover up the fact they are mostly gay guys and always were. Take a look at those clothes the pope and the cardinals wear man. is that gay or what?\nThe reason the "bible" does not mention it is because it was a collection of old Jewish books that were written long before Jesus was born.\nYes the new testament portion of the so-called bible was added to it by the new religion of the followers of Christ AFTER he dies, BUT those too were just the writings and ramblings of the few people that had met and known Jesus during his brief period of life. These were called "gospels", meaning good news. But some of the people that knew jesus duing his time wrote books about it did not get included in the new religion "bible' because the gay priests got together and voted them out because they did not like the messages. the messages of the other gospels are completely in accord with the notion that jesus probably had a wife and child and she was Mary Magdalene\n(not his Mom for Chrisakes, he was not incestuous) It was the Mary Magdalene that hung out with him and the guys like a groupie. Sort of like Yoko Ono. She was his favorite and the other desciples were always complaining about her . These complaints were recorded in their "gospels" too and that is why they were left out by the new Church that was trying to establish a religion that they could control the world with.\nThey had a big meeting together of all the church leaders from around the old world and decided by VOTE to exclude many gospels, and burn them, and kill anyone who mentioned them as heretics and then they proceeded to do so.\n\nAmong these were the gospels of Mary( of course) and Phillip, and Thomas and some other works of note that explained many things. It is all available on the net at NAG HAMMADI LIBRARY in Egypt. A few copies and fragments were unearthed about 35 years ago, translated and are available for anyone who cares to read them.\nit is a shame that the friends of Jesus who knew him best were not allowed to tell anyone what they knew. But that is the way of the world of organized religion, something jesus did not really like. he was like a guru with desciples who were each supposed to spread the word by mouth to individuals who would each in turn spread it to others like a big AMWAY. But they killed him and  squelched his efforts.\n\nThe Mary that jesus loved and probably married, was NOT the whore named Mary mentioned in some bible verse as a person he helped, She was another Mary (Marys? hoodathunkit)\nI guess Mary was a common name back then too. The Church Fathers deliberately decided to discredit this Good Mary by spreading the misinformation that she was this whore. They later confessed to this canard about 30 years ago and apologized to the world but everyone still mistakenly believes that the Mary that Came to see Jesus on the cross and later got his body and took it to a tomb and washed it, like a good little wife, and was the first one he appeared to, was the whore. This was meant t
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He was raised like many to believe gays choose their lifestyle. once people get past this myth it is relatively easy to accept gays.
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Yes when He was Jesus in the flesh. He had bodily functions like every other person. So don't feel guilty when you have to go every now and then.
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Right on, brother! I'm with you all the way. That's the last thing Jesus would do, especially knowing that he purposely created that problem on earth for both gay and non-gay people to deal with. No pain, no gain. If you can be gay and make it through life following the good rather than evil in your heart, congratulations! In my opinion you've made it to heaven. The same holds true for non-gays when it comes to following the good in their hearts.\n\nPS,  I believe there is at least some genetic (gene) component that predisposes most gays to their attraction to the same sex. If so, who but God gave it to them?
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The entire bible is an expression of people's beliefs.  I think there was something that could arguably have been against homosexuality that was attributed to God, but it's still someones statement of what they think, or wanted other people to think that God said to them.\n\nOne thing to keep in mind about homosexuality in the bible is that when it was written the terms had entirely different meanings.  In ancient Greece and Rome, sex was very much about power (far more than it is now).  In a heterosexual relationship, the man was dominant over the women.  In a homosexual male relationship (and this is all the bible says anything about), one partner was active and the other passive.  Male homosexual relations among people of equal social status were frowned up not because they were 'unnatural,' but because one man was showing submission to the other who was supposed to be his equal.  In parts of ancient Greece at various times, although sexual relationships between adult men were scorned, it was not only acceptable, but conventional for adult men, to engage in sexual relations with boys in their early to mid teens.  In this relationship, the man was the 'active' participant and the boy was the 'passive' participant.  Part of the purpose of the relationship was to solidify the social hierarchy.  When the boy grew up he would likely engage in a sexual relationship with a teenage boy before marrying, typically in his mid 30s.\n\nIn Romans, Paul make reference to women behaving in "unnatural" ways (or something to that effect).  This is often misinterpreted to refer to female homosexuality.  However, it is thought by scholars of ancient history to indicate sexual promiscuity in general.\n\nWhether your take biblical references to homosexuality to be the opinions of individuals or the word of God or Jesus, it is important to remember that at the time these statements were written, the notion of homosexuality, and sexuality in general, were quite different to what they are today.  The people who wrote these statements would likely have been as appalled by modern heterosexual relationships as they were by homosexual relations of their time.  When people point to the bible to say that homosexual relations are forbidden, they often fail to consider the historical context, and realize that it was less a matter of the gender of individual engaging in sexual relations that the power hierarchy it implied.
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No.  Homosexuality has been around for thousands of years.  If people would pay as much attention to their history classes as they do to their Bible Studies, they would know that.  It is a PROVEN MEDICAL FACT that the brains of homosexuals are different than heteros.  A homo males brain reacts more like a hetero females, and a lesbian's brain, more like a hetero males.  They PHYSICALLY respond differently to phermones.  It is not an abomination, it is a physical difference that they have NO control over, and the Bible thumpers need to accept it and move on.