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Post by Fr Jack on Apr 5, 2024 19:04:10 GMT
Jesus was both wholly divine, and wholly human. We know absolutely nothing about his life in his teens and twenties.
Chaste or not, show me anybody that is human that has lived through their teenage years and twenties without being sexually attracted to other people.
Being wholly human Jesus must have experienced that sexual attraction... Whether he was attracted to women or men is never ever mentioned. And to be honest, it would make no difference to me either way.
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Post by FilmFlaneur on Apr 5, 2024 21:22:44 GMT
Sacred Scripture says that same-sex acts are sinful . It also says Matthew (7:12): “ In everything, do to others what you would have them do to you." A male's love for another if reciprocated would seem to follow this rule.
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Post by jimmyboy on Apr 5, 2024 22:56:51 GMT
Sacred Scripture says that same-sex acts are sinful . It also says Matthew (7:12): “ In everything, do to others what you would have them do to you. A male's love for another if reciprocated would seem to follow this rule. There are some who can't understand that this was the very concept Jesus tried to get across. Jesus preached to the downtrodden of society (prostitutes, homeless, mentally ill, etc), not the wealthy and made a point several times in the Gospels. Jesus had to even tell St Peter this as well when he said his message was for non-Jews as well. I doubt Jesus would cherry pick, as some do. As for the comment that same sex acts were sinful, this was from the old testament - Leviticus, where there was a whole lot of other things that were sinful as well. This video from West Wing sums it up perfectly:
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Post by clusium on Apr 6, 2024 0:31:02 GMT
Sacred Scripture says that same-sex acts are sinful . It also says Matthew (7:12): “ In everything, do to others what you would have them do to you. A male's love for another if reciprocated would seem to follow this rule. Not in terms sins of the flesh it does not (same with people in opposite-sexual acts, outside of marriage).
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Post by FilmFlaneur on Apr 6, 2024 19:26:58 GMT
It also says Matthew (7:12): “ In everything, do to others what you would have them do to you. A male's love for another if reciprocated would seem to follow this rule. Not in terms sins of the flesh it does not (same with people in opposite-sexual acts, outside of marriage). I don't see this exclusion in the text, and 'everything' usually means just what it says.
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Post by jimmyboy on Apr 6, 2024 22:12:57 GMT
Not in terms sins of the flesh it does not (same with people in opposite-sexual acts, outside of marriage). I don't see this exclusion in the text, and 'everything' usually means just what it says. It's sad, but there are some on this board who don't understand certain concepts when pointed out to them.
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Post by Rodney Farber on May 11, 2024 10:27:40 GMT
... Our Lord Jesus Remained Chaste in Earth. As for race, He would Have Had Middle-Eastern Features, meaning that He would Have Had Arabic like Features. ... Of course he would have Arabic-like features because the Bible was written by Middle-Eastern goat-herders. If the Bible had been written in Gambia, "HE" would have been African-American.
Keep in mind that no written documents about Jesus are known to exist less than thirty years after Jesus' (alleged) death. In my mind, Jesus was, at best, an amalgam of turn-of-the-first-century characters that were hyped to perfection. If Jesus really was a God, why is he not worshiped by non-Christians?
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Post by amyghost on May 11, 2024 12:35:48 GMT
It also says Matthew (7:12): “ In everything, do to others what you would have them do to you. A male's love for another if reciprocated would seem to follow this rule. Not in terms sins of the flesh it does not (same with people in opposite-sexual acts, outside of marriage). As per usual for many Christian believers with the bible in general, you are adding to the Matthew text things that the text does not say contextually. This certainly mitigates the notion that sacred scripture is to be taken at its literal word, since most believers find that very literalness would render many a passage utterly unpalatable to them, if they did not add that filtration process to it. It also would make it incontrovertibly plain to even the most devout that sacred scripture contradicts itself with a great degree of frequency.
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Post by jimmyboy on May 12, 2024 18:02:17 GMT
Not in terms sins of the flesh it does not (same with people in opposite-sexual acts, outside of marriage). As per usual for many Christian believers with the bible in general, you are adding to the Matthew text things that the text does not say contextually. This certainly mitigates the notion that sacred scripture is to be taken at its literal word, since most believers find that very literalness would render many a passage utterly unpalatable to them, if they did not add that filtration process to it. It also would make it incontrovertibly plain to even the most devout that sacred scripture contradicts itself with a great degree of frequency. I find it sort of funny...the magical thinking of believers.
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