Raven wrote on May 14
th, 2016 at 4:03am:
It's funny listening to Christians complain about how homosexuality when at first glance it appears the Nazarene and the New Testament say nothing about the subject.
However there is one verse from the bible that Raven actually likes, which is the Nazarene supporting homosexuals.
Quote:Not everyone can accept this teaching, but only those to whom it is given For there are eunuchs who were born that way; others were made that way by men; and still others live like eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who can accept this should accept it
Matthew 19:11-12
There are three types of eunuchs.
Eunuchs made that way by men is of course castrated males
One who lives like a eunuch is a man who foreswears marriage to better serve God
But it is the third definition which interests us today. 2000 years ago, “natural” or “born,” eunuchs were not associated with missing testicles. Rather, they were associated with stereotypically effeminate characteristics and behaviour.
As a reasonably informed person of his time, Jesus would have been aware of this common view of eunuchs. Yet he very matter-of-factly asserts that some people are simply born that way.
According to the Nazarene these people held a special place in the Kingdome of heaven.
Just as in Matthew 8:5-13 (and to a lesser extent Luke 7:1-10) the Nazarene heals the male servant of a Centurion.
However the word used to describe the servant,
pias, often meant a particular type of servant. One who was “his master’s male lover.”
The Nazarene teaches that most people are created for heterosexual marriage. But, unlike some modern Christians, the Nazarene does not see this as the only honourable way to live. He acknowledges that some human beings have been created by god to follow a less common, but equally legitimate path. There are some who have been eunuchs from birth — made that way by god.
I like ppl who are 'imaginative'.
I myself, have often been described as someone who is always, 'away with the
faeries'.
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Matthew 8:5
And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion, beseeching him,
6 And saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented.
7 And Jesus saith unto him, I will come and heal him.
8 The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed.
9 For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.
10 When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.
11 And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven.
12 But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
13 And Jesus said unto the centurion, Go thy way; and as thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee. And his servant was healed in the selfsame hour.
Matthew 19:9
And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
10 His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry.
11 But he said unto them, All men cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given.
12 For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother's womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.
1 Corinthians 7:1
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
3 Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
4 The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.
5 Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.
6 But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.
7 For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.
8 I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.
9 But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
1 Corinthians 7:32
But I would have you without carefulness.
He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:33
But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.
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