My daughter's interpretation of scripture has lead to to believe Jesus is a homosexual. How do I prove to her otherwise?

Question

Please note I'm not trying to start a flame war. I'm not an super religious man, but going to church is important to me and my family.

I'm not sure if my teenage daughter is serious or just trying to push my buttons but she has said she thinks Jesus is a homosexual. She says the fact that he had no interest in women, was supposedly celibate, and always spending time with men proves it.

I need help getting some firepower to prove to her otherwise. What are some direct examples from the Bible that prove Jesus was in fact heterosexual?

Thanks and God Bless.

Answer 1

I strongly suspect she's just trying to push your buttons It's a fairly common joke used to annoy the devout. If you want to prove her wrong it's fairly easy. Jesus was, by definition of his character, without sin. This would also mean he never lusted after another person as he himself claimed that to lust after another is the same as adultery. If Jesus was gay i(or straight for that matter) t meant he felt lustfully towards other men and thus could not be sinless. The logical conclusion is that Jesus was asexual.

Answer 2

*shrugs*



I'm not sure why her ideas about this Jesus character should upset you so. Let's say, for the sake of argument, that she's right. So what? Being homosexual is perfectly natural and is not any disgrace, and if he was gay, then how does that change what he is supposed to have said and done, and how you feel about his character?



I think the answers to my questions might help enlighten you as to your motivations here.

Answer 3

Show her the Holy Bible that clearly states that if jesus had sinned even once that he could never be an acceptable sacrifice to God the Father.



1Pe 1:18 For you know that God paid a ransom to save you from the empty life you inherited from your ancestors. And the ransom he paid was not mere gold or silver.

1Pe 1:19 It was the precious blood of Christ, the sinless, spotless Lamb of God.





Heb 4:15 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as [we are, yet] without sin.





If she ignores it then she's not Christian material.

Answer 4

There is absolutely nothing in the bible to suggest that Jesus was homosexual...he had more important things to do than.....have a re'ship of his own.....but I wouldn't argue with her....my kids liked to wind me up too! Mo Atheist

Answer 5

Jesus was "a man like us in all ways but sin." Naturally He was attracted to women.



But He was already the Bridegroom, engaged to His Bride, the Church -- so naturally He didn't let attraction to individual women cloud His relationship with His true love and Bride.



Sexuality is not exclusively expressed in brute acts of generative intercourse, but is also a matter of the personal soul, temperament and degree of interior maturity. That is why celibacy is not "asexual"--only the upward transmutation of sexuality. Agape means unconditional love, distinctively Christian love of the highest grade. Jesus embodied it for us, as an example.



http://forums.catholic.com/showthread.php?t=598784

Answer 6

One person has as much right to his/her interpretation as does the next person... That's the definition of interpretation.

She's probably trying to tell you that there is no one right interpretation of anything in the Bible… that's why we have thousands of denominations of Christians and hundreds of versions of Bibles.

Nobody knows for sure, and nobody can "prove" anything from the Bible… the most people can say is that they choose to believe (their interpretation of) the Bible, based on their faith they are correct and others are incorrect… pretty circular reasoning.

Answer 7

You can't prove otherwise. All you can do is say that church doctrine says Jesus was an eternal virgin.

Answer 8

I think she has a point there.



Why can't you just let her believe what she believes?



Does it matter if Jesus was gay or not?

Answer 9

Sorry. That is the thing about Biblical interpretations, without any empirical means of testing them, or God there to tell you which one is correct, there is no factor which can objectively determine which is correct, and you all you have left is the (unconvincing) sort of force suggested by Joe.

Answer 10

He was married to Miriam and the had Joshua, Joseph & Mary. John 21 v 25. KJV.

Answer 11

Easy. Remind your daughter the Bible makes it very clear homosexuality is a sin. Now remind her that Jesus was WITHOUT sin. He was innocent and never commited sin. If he commited sin, He was not the Son of God. Hopes this help, and I will pray for your daughter!



God bless you and your family!

Answer 12

That this even matters gets to the heart of why non-believers have a problem with Christians. Seriously, if Jesus was gay, would it really invalidate anything he tried to teach?

Answer 13

In other words, your daughter heard an old joke and mistook it for historical analysis? Does she think there are two people named "banana" and "orange" knocking on your front door right now?

Answer 14

You prove it to her by spanking her butt, taking away her cell phone, and washing her filthy, disrespectful mouth out with soap. And then also isolate her from friends and liberal teachers who are probably polluting her mind.

Answer 15

If you don't know how to prove it to a child, then you have nothing. Absolutely nothing.......





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