Was Jesus intolerant of homosexuals? Did he hate them?

Question

And who the hell is anybody to 'tolerate' another's inborn sexual inclinations, anyway?

Answer 1

No, he wasn't intolerant. Nor did he tolerate. He only loved. He wasn't a hater. He came to serve as an example of what each of us could be. (Hear that, haters?????)

Answer 2

The christion religion (and most religions for that matter) is all about specific guidelines.
each religion thinks that the other is always wrong. to be a real christian you must strictly adhere to the rules in the bible.
to be a good muslim you follow the koran and so on.

for all anybody really knows maybe jesus was a full blown liberace gay guy...no eye witnesses are still around...all we have are the texts and traditions of modern religions.

my best interpretations of the bible lead me to assume that homosexuality is a sin according to the rules in christianity, and it goes against the whole "be fruitful and multiply" thing.so i kinda smirk at the gay and lesbian christian groups who seem to have not thought the whole thing through. so maybe if someone is gay they could find a religion that is more suitable to their lifestyle.

as far as religion goes you are either in or out. and they believe that there is no room for deviation from their rules.

most of this is my own opinion, so take it for what it's worth. i'm not god, or A god, and religiously speaking only god makes the choice who's in and who's out...it's all personal choice hoping for the best results.

Answer 3

No. Jesus even healed the male slave of a Roman officer; there's currently a debate about the exact translation of the term that's been rendered as "slave". It might have meant "slave" in the sense of a male concubine.

If that's the case, then Jesus had no problem whatsoever with gay people. Look at how he accepted that soldier!

From the link listed below...

"A classic example is provided in Matthew 8. There, a Roman soldier asked Jesus to heal his "pais." This is a Greek term often used in ancient times to refer to a servant who was his master's same-sex partner. (K.J. Cover, Greek Homosexuality (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1978), p. 16). When the soldier said, "Lord, my 'partner' is lying at home paralyzed, in terrible distress," Jesus was immediately compassionate and spoke no words of exclusion or condemnation. He simply said, "I will come and heal him."

In the dialogue that followed, Jesus commended this Roman solider for having more faith than anyone he had ever met and assured him that he would sit down in the Kingdom of Heaven with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. By this miracle of healing, Jesus preserved this loving same-sex relationship. (For more information about the Greek term referred to above and how it should be translated, see the book recommended below.)

The Gospels are clear. Jesus refused to be bound by cultural prejudice. Repeatedly, he took up the cause of the oppressed and defended them against narrow-minded religious leaders."

And from the second link...

"Jesus did not live in Jewish Judea but in pagan Galilee. Here he would surely have been familiar with the Roman army's tolerance for homerotic relations extending across class lines. Jesus knew this was likely a homosexual relationship and by his cure indirectly endorsed it."

Answer 4

Jesus said nothing about it. The closest he came to addressing it was when he said - why are you concerned about the splinter in your neighbor's eye when you should be tending the log in your own eye?

This hatred of homosexuality is despicable ignorance and any 21st century american who 'hates the sin' is doing a great damage to our nation. Oh, yeah, here's another thing Jesus said -ALL HAVE SINNED AND COME SHORT OF THE GLORY OF GOD. These christian haters today could just as well run around decrying those of us who were two different fabrics at the same time. But they don't. Because they are brainwashed hatemongers who don't even understand their own religion.

Answer 5

Jesus wouldn't have hated them, but felt compassion. He would have understood that something happened to them to cause these feeling to develop, but in the same way proper feelings towards the opposite sex can be developed.
Some people have lot's of different sexual desires that would be considered wrong by everyone, and just because people have those desires doesn't make them right.

2 Corinthians 6:9-11
9 What! Do YOU not know that unrighteous persons will not inherit God’s kingdom? Do not be misled. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men kept for unnatural purposes, nor men who lie with men, 10 nor thieves, nor greedy persons, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit God’s kingdom. 11 And yet that is what some of YOU were. But YOU have been washed clean, but YOU have been sanctified, but YOU have been declared righteous in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and with the spirit of our God.

Answer 6

No .Being gay would not make you a non christian. the reality that maximum christians imagine that this grow to be some decision all of us made to sin is what stops us form going to church. Who should be round those who imagine that someone would opt for some thing like this. Then to have the nerve to assert praying will fix you. as if we are damaged people. And that it is a temptation and they we are sex crazed. Idk about you yet i'm a virgin, and appeal isn't a temptation at the same time as your entire existence all you pray for is to experience an appeal in route of a boy yet you stay a lesbian. it is the reason maximum homosexuals stay faraway from church. no longer because they do no longer trust yet because those *godlike people* socially gained't settle for them in the church and characteristic fake beliefs about them.

Answer 7

Of course not. He didn't hate anyone. No one really has to tolerate anything. Despite what others think, people are going to do what they want to. That's just life. The intolerable people are the ones that suffer, not the ones who live their life the best they can and continue to be themselves.

Answer 8

No, that was the great thing about him he was tolerant with all humans , the problem is that all the christian churches are making interpretations of his words ... I'm not a believer but I think that Jesus was a great human ... his message has being manipulated and used in the wrong way

Answer 9

Our Creator established rules governing marriage long before governments began regulating the institution. The opening book of the Bible tells us: “A man will leave his father and his mother and he must stick to his wife and they must become one flesh.” (Genesis 2:24) The Hebrew word “wife,” according to Vine’s Expository Dictionary of Biblical Words, “connotes one who is a female human being.” Jesus confirmed that those yoked together in marriage should be “male and female.”—Matthew 19:4.

Thus, God intended marriage to be a permanent and an intimate bond between a man and a woman. Men and women are designed to complement each other so they may be capable of satisfying each other’s emotional, spiritual, and sexual needs and desires.

The well-known Biblical account of Sodom and Gomorrah reveals God’s feelings about homosexuality. God declared: “The cry of complaint about Sodom and Gomorrah, yes, it is loud, and their sin, yes, it is very heavy.” (Genesis 18:20) The extent of their sinful depravity at that time was apparent when two guests visited the righteous man Lot. “The men of Sodom . . . surrounded the house, from boy to old man, all the people in one mob. And they kept calling out to Lot and saying to him: ‘Where are the men who came in to you tonight? Bring them out to us that we may have intercourse with them.’” (Genesis 19:4, 5) The Bible says: “The men of Sodom were bad and were gross sinners against Jehovah.”—Genesis 13:13.

The men became “violently inflamed in their lust toward one another, males with males.” (Romans 1:27) They had “gone out after flesh for unnatural use.” (Jude 7) In countries where homosexual rights campaigns are pervasive, some may object to using the word “unnatural” to describe homosexual behavior. However, is not God the final arbiter when it comes to nature? He commanded his ancient people: “You must not lie down with a male the same as you lie down with a woman. It is a detestable thing.”— Leviticus 18:22.

The Bible is clear: God does not approve of or condone homosexual practices. He also disapproves of people who “consent with those practicing them.” (Romans 1:32) And “marriage” cannot give homosexuality a cloak of respectability. God’s direction that “marriage be honorable among all” precludes homosexual unions, which he considers detestable.—Hebrews 13:4.

Answer 10

the bible describes, pretty vividly, jesus having sex with a young man

The youth, looking upon him (Jesus), loved him and beseeched that he might remain with him ... they went into the house of the youth ... And after six days, Jesus instructed him and, in the evening, the youth came to him wearing a linen cloth over his naked body. And he remained with him that night, for Jesus taught him the mystery of the Kingdom of God." "And there followed him a certain young man, having a linen cloth cast about his naked body ; and the young men laid hold on him: and he left the linen cloth, and fled from them naked."

Answer 11

Yeah, I never liked it that certain people say they "tolerate" other people's sexual orientation; it makes it sound like it's a poison or illness, like saying "I can tolerate alcohol" or "I've built up a tolerance for that virus".

As for Jesus, I don't believe he mentioned anything about hating homosexuals. That's the OT God.