soo they were in love each other? doesnt have a good feeling? why didnt God speak againts them if they were gay? why the bible mentioned eunuchs.. don't mean they were gay at that time?
2007-08-25 16:57:59 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The truth is that you do not KNOW David and Jonathan's relationship was a sexual one, and that the people here who are declaring that they were only buddies do not KNOW they did not. If they did go at each other, so what? Dancing around the holy mulberry bush until the holy unicorn and the talking snake come home to roost proves nothing. One thing that both gays and the cognitively challenged people who misread the Bible should know is that the 'homosexuality' of our time, the so-called 'gay lifestyle,' and all that, did not exist during the Bronze Age, when D&J were on the scene. Even the word 'homosexual' did not exist until a German invented it in 1869. In its original Greek and Hebrew, the biblical reference was to male prostitutes who found places for themselves in at least one religion in a neighboring country where the desert nomad tribe whose god Christianity adopted had committed genocide. In our time, right-wing Fundamentalists, in rewriting the KJV, smacked their lips and smelled their fingers and chose 'homosexual' instead of male prostitute. Honesty, eh? Fidelity to god, eh? Truth, eh?
2007-08-25 17:51:19 · answer #1 · answered by Yank 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
No you have to wave rainbow flags, lisp and run around "coming out" all the time to be gay. And you have to do that same except have a spikey mullet instead of a lisp to be a lesbian.
But hey if that happens then yeah.
Timothy you dope, a eunuch is a man that's been castrated and that means his testicles were removed. Eunuch does not mean a homosexual.
2007-08-25 17:13:49 · answer #2 · answered by kijafha 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They weren't gay, it's just that in our society today where homosexuality gets such publicity that people see a passage in the Bible like where David says that Jonathans love to him was better than the love of a woman and they almost automatically think that David was talking about sexual instead of brotherly love.
That's a sign or our times and not a reflection on David. David was talking about the love that comrades in arms who put their lives on the line for one another feel. David had multiple wives and he was a man after God's own heart. He wasn't gay.
Ruth was Naomi's daughter-in-law who stuck with her after both of their husbands died and married Boaz. Living with your mother-in-law who needs help doesn't make someone a lesbian.
2007-08-25 17:08:31 · answer #3 · answered by Martin S 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No this is man's interpretation trying to discredit the Bible, by making up things or reading into things way to much. David and Johnathon were like brothers... Not lovers. A love that we have slowly started to lose. Loving someone more than ourselves. Johnathon wanted the will of God over all and he knew that David was appointed by Samuel God's Prophet to be the next king. They weren't secret lovers... Don't believe everything someone tells you seek out the information yourself. Good question hope this helps.
2007-08-25 17:07:47 · answer #4 · answered by Hawk 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
David and Jonathan were not homosexual lovers, if that is what you mean by "gay". Of course, David could be described as being gay when he had something to be gay about, such when he danced before Yahweh. This, of course, has nothing to do with being one who has sexual relations with a member of his own sex.
2007-08-25 17:27:14 · answer #5 · answered by Ronald D 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not sure about your questioning, are you taking something?
Eunuchs, were men who usually watched over the daughters or the harems of royalty in ancient times. The number one job requirement was that their penises were castrated. That way the king could be certain his daughters or many wives were not being pleased by the eunchs.
2007-08-25 17:07:07 · answer #6 · answered by Timothy B 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You and the other God haters that made up and agreed with your premise of your question are evidence that Jesus is indeed just what the Bible says He is.. His Spirit told us through the Apostle that His word is spiritual discerned. Your view of this proves at least that much of His word true... IHS Jim
2007-08-25 17:14:04 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Naomi was Ruth's mother-in-law. Ruth's husband died so she stayed with his mother. David and Jonathan were very good friends. I guess some people can find evil in everything. Sad.
2007-08-25 17:06:47 · answer #8 · answered by robee 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
i think you ought to reread the story- Ruth and Naomi are like 50 years aside and Ruth is the mummy of naomi's lifeless husband- they arrive mutually as stable pals--please do no longer unfold your confusion...........
2016-10-17 00:20:57 · answer #9 · answered by mohr 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jonathan had a wife and a crippled child.
David had a few wives and children.
They were best friends.
2007-08-25 17:16:41 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋