Post by gadreel on Jun 13, 2017 21:13:31 GMT
Three years?
? How does the length of his ministry mean anything, in fact if anything by using the length of his ministry as an example you are implying that before his ministry started he was free to engage in whatever he pleased.I suited romance because that was the thread topic. However, I do confess that my answers are largely based on guesses of what the heck the vagaries of the conversation are. Are you saying that Jesus needs to boink? Are you saying he needs to go to the prom? Are you saying that he was shacking up with someone? What exactly is your point since I made my point abundantly clear but will repeat again.
If I don't think romance is a necessary component, then certainly the subset of sex wouldn't be either.
The reason I mentioned the 3 years is because this was the time period Scriptures concerns itself with overall and everyone is largely being vague about what they mean regarding romance & Jesus. If you are wanting to discuss his teenage years then inform me of the dating aspects of 1st Century Nazareth.
Since I am making the argument that romance was not a significant thing for society in general at the time until marriage age, & Jesus was not married or engaged, then there's no reason to force this concept on him..
I think people, not necessarily you since I don't know what you're getting at now, are making the mistake of thinking that just because Jesus was a man, his life is interchangeable with any man which is silly.
I'm not sure why you think that any man needs to have sex at any time in his life much less specifically tying the mythical necessity to Jesus who most would agree was distinctly different from
I am concerned with the statement that you are not sure why any man needs to have sex, sex is a basic fundamental need, it is required by biology to reproduce the species, the urge is there in every male, I suppose there is a difference between urged to and needs to, but given that it does not affect Jesus' mission there is no reason so think that he is required to resist the urge. Bearing in mind here that Jesus must be fundamentally human to perform his mission, so he must experience human desires.
The point about his ministry vs his whole life is exactly what you pointed out, scripture mentions only his infancy (well a little bit later) and the last three years of his life, there is nothing about the intervening 20 or so years, it seems reasonable that his life was as normal as possible in those years.
I dont have to discuss the dating aspects of 1st century nazareth, the fact that humans are the same then as now indicates that he would have had those needs and there are many examples in history of people going outside social norms to satisfy them. I suppose that is the one argument that can be made that Jesus would avoid sex, is that it defies the social norms, I can concede that might be the case but I still think that if he did or not has no effect on his ministry so there is no reason to suspect he would avoid it for that reason.