A Question About Jesus?

Question

I know that Jesus was a Jew, but wouldn't he also be considered a Christian? And was he actually TRYING to start a new religion or just a new way of life and thinking?
I also wanna know, how did Jesus cope w/ having so many women around him all the time and never becoming aroused? I'm not saying this as teasing or to be funny. I REALLY want to know..

I really can't see why sex outside of marraige would be such a big thing w/ God.
In the Old testament, they did it all the time and God was like "Uhh, Have fun!" Now it's like, do it and burn in Hell, kids. So which is it???

Answer 1

BUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Bible says that Jesus suffered every thing , and went through everything so that he would know how we feel , that is why he is such a forgiving God, he knows our sufferings, our weakness, our desires, and so on, he was divine, but he went through things too.

Answer 2

Christ's teachings started Christianity. I believe that he was trying to define a new way of looking at life and religion, but it was Peter who was charged with building the church (according to the bible). Some believe that Jesus was married. Others believe that he was single his entire life. The truth is that the bible makes no mention as to whether or not he was single his entire life. That's kind up to you to decide. For the record, the first person Jesus visited after his resurrection was Mary. If he was bachelor, why would he visit her first?
I think Jesus was straight and therefore aroused by women. Part of being a guy means that you are going to get aroused from time to time. Just because he was aroused by women doesn't mean that he necessarily acted on his impulses. Just remember that the bible is missing a big chunk of his life. Who's to say what took place during his adolescent years?

Answer 3

Jesus was a Jew. A Christian is a follower of Jesus and would probably have just been called a Jew also if the Jews had not rejected Jesus as God's son.
Jesus was human and was tempted just as any human might have been but he was very focused on doing God's work and he was able to turn away from the temptation. We know that he did not give in because his sacrifice of his perfect human life was accepted by God when he returned to heaven and it would not have been if he had given in to the temptation.

Answer 4

First of all, its possible that he did marry. Not likely, for reasons that I will elucidate in a minute, but possible. Jesus was a Jew, and it would have been expected that at a certain age he would marry.

The primary reason that I don't find it terribly likely that he did marry would be the lack of mention in the Bible of a wife. The Bible tends to be very specific with everybody's relationship to each other ,and if he had married say Magdalene, it wouldn't have said "follower of Jesus," "friend of Jesus" (or whatever it does say in regards to her relationship with him, I don't remember off the top of my head), it woudl have said, Mary Magdelene, "wife of Jesus"

Anyway, the Bible is clear that Jesus suffered temptation on numerous occasions, and that through the Father, he had the strength not to succumb. The bible doesn't focus on women as a source of temptation, but that doesn't mean that it didn't happen.

Jesus was a Jew, and as he said, "I came to fulfill the law, not to abolish it." Did he intent to change the practices in hopes that people would trust in Him and be saved, yes. What his plans were, in those regards is really not guessible, and any guesses would fall into the "fallacy of intent."

Answer 5

As to whether he would be considered a Christian - it depends on who's doing the considering. I don't think Jesus considered himself anything other than a Jew. No, I don't think he was trying to start a new religion, although he may have been trying to shake up an existing one.

As for the rest - who knows? Maybe he was aroused. But women were considered so totally inconsequential in those days that the scriptures certainly aren't going to dwell on them.

Answer 6

No. There is no indication that Jesus was trying to start a new religion. It appears that his main objectives were to try to free people from thinking religion was about governments (theocracies) or a set of rules, or other things that limit people's potentials. He also emphasize that religion should be about caring for others and there is really no indication that he was concerned about beliefs other than to comfort people.

After Jesus died St. Paul created the Christian religion, almost singlehandedly as he slowly altered the memories of the apostles and got them to write down the good things that Jesus said some 30 years after his death. St. Paul solidified the beliefs into a new set of rules called Christianity and transforming Jesus into a God, in effect, completely misunderstanding what Jesus was trying to do.

In regards to Jesus not being sexually aroused, there is no indication one way or the other about his sexual feelings. But being a man, with no indication that he was any different than any other man in regards to sex, he probably was sexually aroused and probably even had sex.

Again, St. Paul was demonstratively anti-sex, perhaps even homosexual (it is impossible to know for sure), who had no concern for "family values", or marriage, or sex between men and women, so that aspect of Jesus' life was pretty much blotted out by St. Paul's influence.

Answer 7

Jesus wasn't considered a Christian because the term Christian means a follower of Christ. And Jesus was the Christ. He couldn't follow Himself.

Your second question about Jesus starting up a new religion takes a little more time to explain. Jesus Himself wasn't "religious" as we know it to be today. He was doing what the Father told Him to do. He finished what God started. He was speaking and teaching Truth like none other and backed up His claims by miracles. It more in-depth than that but I fear if I make it any longer I'll loose your interest.

As far a Jesus having relations with women I would say that that wasn't what the Father sent Him to do. Keep in mind that He was fully human AS WELL AS fully God when He walked this earth. Resisting temptation came easy to Him.

Answer 8

No I don't think that Jesus would be a christian.

Christianity as it is currently practiced is almost the exact opposite of what Jesus tried to teach us.

Jesus taught an inclusive nonjudgmental, loving approach to others. This in no way describes the approach Christianity takes these days.

The idea that Jesus never had any attraction toward women is a fantasy made up by the roman catholic church. When the other christian sects branched off from it they retained this nonsense as part of their belief system.


Love and blessings Don

Answer 9

Jesus is considered THE Christian. A Christian is basically a "human Jesus" that follows His ways. He came to get rid of all of the tedious and unnecesary laws and rules that the Pharisees had become way too focused on. So yes, He came to start a new way of life, and more importantly, a new and better way to Heaven.

Jesus also came to earth to experience the temptations that we face everyday, and overcome them. Those women were probably a temptation, and He overcame them as well. He was so focused on pleasing God that He didn't struggle at all with becoming aroused when around women.

Answer 10

Since there was no Christianity until AFTER Jesus died/ressurrected, no, he wouldn't be considered a Christian during his lifetime. As for the rest of it, it depends on whether you consider him to be 'simply' a wise man ahead of his time or an actual messianic figure and aspect of god. I would go with the former, but we pragmatic, rational folk are in the minority...

Answer 11

Jesus is the Christ, and the Christians are his followers. I would suggest that you read the New Testament in the Bible, and you will see that there were other things Jesus was concerned about, and if you really want to know Him , study the lilfe of our Savior, why he came and what he did for us, He was the Son of God, and you will get to know Him better if you do.