What was the sexuality of Jesus?

Was Jesus heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual or asexual?

Maize said:

Don't know.... don't care.

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Good answer! If only all people could have that attitude toward other people's sexuality. (Are you listening George Bush?)

ahah. rite totaly.

i think jesus was straight. i think he went out with mary magdalene too. afterall, he was the perfect man, and thus had to experience all life through they eyes or a regular man. if he didnt get married, that would have been pretty wierd for his time. he also could have been asexual. but i doubt that, even though God is beyond sex, jesus was a man.

Hmm, this is an interesting question! I believe if he was the son of the Christian god, he probably didn't have a sexual preference. Not exactly asexual, just not really concentrating on the sex of the person. I can't really put it into words, but if he was who people say he is then it seems like he'd have enough power to look into and through people that sex wouldn't matter one bit.

Yea, I'm articulate today. :bonk:

Maize said:

Well, if we really want to discuss this seriously, I would make a case for him being asexual, or just not concerned with sex. Gerani, like in the Hindu teaching, when someone reaches Liberation, they no longer have the worldly desires they once had. I think Jesus would be a good example of a person who had reached Liberation. What do you think?

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Excellent thoughts and I agree. Oh no....I've just wasted bandwidth to say "me too" but I couldn't have said it better.

perhaps maize. yet Rama was known as the perfect man also, he was a warrior and he was married to Sita.

i think jesus sorta kinda follows the hero quest architype. that being that he has a quest, and he is focused on the mission that hes not really into sex.

tho sexuality is not entriely based on sex. like he could have been straight, yet absitnent like all rabbis during that time... i think. were they?

Gerani1248 said:

ahah. rite totaly.

i think jesus was straight. i think he went out with mary magdalene too. afterall, he was the perfect man, and thus had to experience all life through they eyes or a regular man. if he didnt get married, that would have been pretty wierd for his time. he also could have been asexual. but i doubt that, even though God is beyond sex, jesus was a man.

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You think he went out with Mary Magdalene? Could you provide proof please?

It's also necessary to remember that Jesus is not only man but God too -- fully man and fully God, actually. As for being single being weird for Jesus' time, not all the apostles were married -- Peter had a mother-in-law, so it would seem he was married, but we hear nothing about any of the other apostles' spouses or in-laws. In addition, the apostle Paul was definitely single. He even talks about the virtues of the single life in one of his letters (one of his letters to the Corinthians, I believe).

"You think he went out with Mary Magdalene? Could you provide proof please?"

um. its a theory. theres some proof there is. there is proof that doesnt talk about mary at all. i could give you proof?, but i dont want to, cuz then someone would just gimme bible virses and it would be just a merry go round of the usual disagreement. he could have. or he couldnt have. i dont care.


"It's also necessary to remember that Jesus is not only man but God too -- fully man and fully God, actually."

he had both his humanity and divinity. each account of the gospel gives different virisions, like luke or matt gives humanity view of jesus while the john gives the divinity of jesus.

i have to point out, that not everything is in the gospels. somethings might have been not written down, forgotten, etc. Jesus is a very elucive figure, there are very few writings on him.

as for being the son of God, many christians believe that, but i dont. he could have been, but i dunno. he could have been an incarnation like Rama and krishna. or he could have been some miricle doer who was a rebel and very very very crazy. (who calls themselves lambs of God?).

im not making fun of christianity. its how i view Jesus. Jesus doesnt soely belong to christianity, he also belongs to historians!

ave a nice day.

Dave,
Paul wrote quit alot about staying single because he considered Christ's return to be eminent. It could happen any day.
He suggested marriage only if you could not keep yourself out of sin.
As far as Jesus's sexuality you may have heard of the Sangrael theory. It suggests that Jesus was not only heterosexual but was married to Mary M. and has living descendants today. ( the Davinci Code is not the only book written about this and some people are serious about this theory, personally I am not)

If it's just a theory dreamed up by fallible men, then why should anyone put stock into it?

As for marriage and staying single, prior to Paul's praise of celibacy, Jesus referred to those who choose to be "eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven" in one of the Gospels. They give up sexual pleasure for the sake of God's kingdom. There was no reference to the Second Coming in that passage.

I personally think that Jesus simply abstained from sex, because it the bible maintains that he was "free from the temptations of the flesh", which would involve extramarital sex, and I think that marriage would have been too major a think for all of the gospels to leave out... I don't even think that any of the gnostic texts mention anything about it, so i would have no reason to just randomly assume anything different. I'ma read DVC later this year, for school, im excited about that.^^

the christ figure followed the hero quest architype. many heros, are so headstrong on thier mission, they do not love or have sex with a woman (or a man) as a partner, because they dont want to deviate or be distracted.

hero's also have a flaw. they over come this flaw to achieve what they want. they also have a unique ability.

who follows the hero quest architype? jesus and many other story heros.

james bond is not cuz he loves woman and has no character flaw, hes just a swift, smooth action secret agent.

and austin powers is a parody of the architype.

odyseus follows the architype.

Gerani1248 said:

the christ figure followed the hero quest architype. many heros, are so headstrong on thier mission, they do not love or have sex with a woman (or a man) as a partner, because they dont want to deviate or be distracted.

hero's also have a flaw. they over come this flaw to achieve what they want. they also have a unique ability.

who follows the hero quest architype? jesus and many other story heros.

james bond is not cuz he loves woman and has no character flaw, hes just a swift, smooth action secret agent.

and austin powers is a parody of the architype.

odyseus follows the architype.

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Thomas Edison was a hero. George Washington was a hero. People like Charles Lindenburgh were heroes. All of them loved someone or the other. Love is an expression of a person's values. Why is love a distraction?
Why should heroes have a unique ability? Why can't heroes be ordinary men who accomplish extraordinary deeds? That does not require a unique ability. All it requires is determination and moral self-confidence.

im talking about literature. if you look into literature, theres a certain architype of a hero. this type of hero is immortalized in all cultures. im not talking about war veterans or such. i talking about stories, legends, literature, mythology.

Gerani1248 said:

im talking about literature. if you look into literature, theres a certain architype of a hero. this type of hero is immortalized in all cultures. im not talking about war veterans or such. i talking about stories, legends, literature, mythology.

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Gerani, are you refering to Campbell's thesis in his book, The Hero With A Thousand Faces?