Was J Gay?

Contents:

• DID THE CENTURN AND HIS SERVANT HAVE A GAY RELATNSHIP?
• WAS J GAY?
• DID J HEAL A CENTURN’S GAY LOVER?
• THE GAY CENTURN
• RETHKG THE GAY CENTURN: SEXUAL EXCEPTNALISM, NATNAL EXCEPTNALISM READGS OF MATT. 8:5-13//LE 7:1-10RETHKG THE GAY CENTURN: SEXUAL EXCEPTNALISM, NATNAL EXCEPTNALISM READGS OF MATT. 8:5-13//LE 7:1-10RETHKG THE GAY CENTURN: SEXUAL EXCEPTNALISM, NATNAL EXCEPTNALISM READGS OF MATT. 8:5-13//LE 7:1-10RETHKG THE GAY CENTURN: SEXUAL EXCEPTNALISM, NATNAL EXCEPTNALISM READGS OF MATT. 8:5-13//LE 7:1-10RETHKG THE GAY CENTURN: SEXUAL EXCEPTNALISM, NATNAL EXCEPTNALISM READGS OF MATT. 8:5-13//LE 7:1-10
• WAS THE CENTURN REALLY GAY AND IF SO, WHY DID PL SPEAK AGAST HOMOSEXUALY?

DID THE CENTURN AND HIS SERVANT HAVE A GAY RELATNSHIP?

Th, his ncln was that by dog this, J sentially affirmed and ndoned, rather than nmned, homosexual sexual relatnships. As Prton Sprkle explas his excellent book, People to Be Loved: Why Homosexualy is Not Jt an Issue, was mon the Gre-Roman culture of J’ day for homosexual sex to be part of the power differential a relatnship, but only as long as the domant partner was olr, of higher social standg, and the peratg role. Furthermore, Sprkle go on to expla that such relatnships the ancient world were not at all like our morn nceptn of a gay uple a lovg, nsensual, -equal relatnship.

For example, the peratg partner such relatnships was not necsarily nsired “gay” or “same-sex attracted, ” rather this was an act of subjugatg the passive partner and was about assertg power. Pais Alone Don’t Imply a Homosexual Relatnship. Furthermore, of the 24 of pais  the Greek New Ttament, is never ed of a homosexual relatnship.

Furthermore, sce any such relatnship would have been abive nature, to say that this is an example of J ndong or affirmg a homosexual relatnship is far-fetched and misguid; certaly no one would argue that J, by healg this servant, was affirmg or ndong of the sexual abe of a mor by an olr man posn of power. Would J have healed a gay person? Although is very unlikely that this passage is speakg about the healg of a centurn’s same-sex partner, the qutn remas: Would J have healed a gay person?

WAS J GAY?

I highly remend the above mentned book, Prton Sprkle’s People to Be Loved: Why Homosexualy is Not Jt an Issue. Prton addrs the topic of homosexualy wh scholarly sight and tons of empathy and love. But maybe one gay relatnship ma to the book, or rather the books, of the New Ttament:.

I believe this passage tails J’ enunter wh someone who today would be regard as a gay man. Homosexualy Is Not a S. Homosexualy Is a S.

Perhaps the centurn was a gay relatnship wh his servant. The gay revisnist terpretatn of the stori of the Centurns is of urse unfound the biblil text for numero reasons.

DID J HEAL A CENTURN’S GAY LOVER?

(1) Though Plato and some others (among them Thucydis, Eupolis, Ach, Callimanch, and Plutarch) secular history may have ed the term pais on a "few ocsns" to refer to "beloved or same sex lover" (note that their do not "all" dite a homosexual e) what is at stake here is how the Bible the term pais.

THE GAY CENTURN

) not a sgle one refers to a homosexual relatnship. Of the 24 of pais the Greek New Ttament, unls the closely related stori are the exceptn, is never ed of a homosexual relatnship!

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(3) Though related to # 1 above, we need to re-emphasize that there is no possible way pais uld mean a homosexual : Matthew 2:16; 12:18; 14:2; 17:18; 21:16; Le 1:69; 8:51, 54, 9:42; John 4:51; and Acts 3:13, etc. (4) Levic 18:22 and 20:13 are Old Ttament law regardg homosexualy. The Jewish elrs Le 7:3-5 would not have supported a homosexual relatnship.

The elrs of the Jews would not have been been pleadg the Centurn's se had he been a homosexual. (6) Matthew, Le, and John did not terpret J' healg as support for homosexualy.

(7) Last, but not least, the gay muny seeks to prove too much. " So, seeg the Centurn repented of his s, this had to clu his "alleged homosexualy" (Lev 18:22; 20:13; Rom 1:26-27: 1 Cor 6:9-10).

WAS THE CENTURN REALLY GAY AND IF SO, WHY DID PL SPEAK AGAST HOMOSEXUALY?

Therefore, the gay muny has jt proven om their own isogis (readg to a text that which is not tend) the jt nmnatn of homosexualy and the need to be livered om . While we agree wh this fal ncln (that is, the jt nmnatn of homosexualy and the need to be livered om ), this is not what Matthew 8:5-13, Le 7:1-10, and John 4:43-54 are teachg . Please note that teach not only that homosexualy is a s that needs to be repented of but numero other ss as well.

See "Is Passive Homosexualy Permted Scripture? Homosexualy was (and still is) the rult of praved mds (Rom 1:18-32) and God clearly judged as sful (along wh some other ss, Gen 19:8; Ezek 16:49-50) Sodom and Gomorrah (Gen.