I've gotten some genuinely fascinating responses to my query as to Christ's sexuality in a previous question. Many of the responses seem to indicate that the reason why Christ was a non-sexual being was that he was Divine, God incarnate, and therefore not subject to human needs and "defects" like the rest of us.
My favorite:
"Jesus was divine. He had no reason to battle anything, especially sexual desire. therefore to be asexual was His right. You keep confusing His omnipotence with human qualities. He is God "
This, to my mind, raises entirely new questions. Exactly how human was he? We all know he lost his temper and became violent, and had to atone for it, with the money changers in the temple. Apparently, he was "human" enough to feel anger and to lash out in this anger, but not so sexual desire. Did he need to eat? Did he sleep? Did he urinate/defecate? Why is it so vital to us to make him anything more than an enlightened man, rather than some omnipotent, pacifist demigod?
2007-06-07
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