What jesus said about gay roman soldier

There are interesting parallel passages in Matthew and Luke that some modern scholars believe might present a queer-positive encounter between Jesus and a Roman centurion. The unnamed centurion — although one source names him Gaius — who approached Jesus to ask him to heal the man he loved (be it his servant or his partner) has been there from the beginning, in a.

Thus, his conclusion was that by doing this, Jesus essentially affirmed and condoned, rather than condemned, homosexual sexual relationships. The story of this healing is found in Matthew and Luke , and is about a Roman centurion who comes to Jesus and begs that Jesus heal his servant. When Jesus entered Capernaum, a fishing town located on the sea of Galilee, he was approached by a centurion soldier who appealed to him about a servant [pais] who was dying from an illness in his home.

In addition to Jesus’ silence on homosexuality in general (he never mentions same-sex intimacy, not once, despite its prevalence in his social context), it speaks volumes that he did not hesitate to heal a Roman’s likely same-sex lover. By Anthony Franklin II. Bibliography Zeichmann, Christopher B. He spoke in parables and metaphor and story.

There is another Greek word for servant, the word doulos, but the word pais was used to designate a young, male servant boy. Jesus only calls one other person beloved and it is Lazarus.

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The story of the centurion at Capernaum is a favorite of mine Matt par. Loading Comments Already have a WordPress. This is often referred to as pederasty, in which older men would have dominant sexual relationships with teenage boys. There can be no question of Matthew or Luke reading into the story a positive view of same-sex intercourse on the part of Jesus. Evidence for homoeroticism in the military abounds.

Here they are:. Helen K. All males experience that. Sign me up. We know that the form which much master-slave homoeroticism took in the Greco-Roman world included not only coerced sexual activity but also forced feminization, up to and including castration. There are six main arguments against the assumption that Jesus was endorsing homosexual relations in his encounter with the centurion at Capernaum.

Did he have a nocturnal emission? Healing is an act of grace, and grace — by definition — is not something that is earned or merited, it is a gift from a God who gives to undeserving recipients. Here they are: 1 Sex with male slaves not a universal phenomenon. At the very least, Jesus was queer. Furthermore, since any such relationship would have been abusive in nature, to say that this is an example of Jesus condoning or affirming a homosexual relationship is far-fetched and misguided; certainly no one would argue that Jesus, by healing this servant, was affirming or condoning of the sexual abuse of a minor by an older man in position of power.

Email Required Name Required Website. Robinson, an Anglican bishop and New Testament scholar, The Human Face of God , and there was a little footnote there that really disturbed me. Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter. By Luis Prada. In short, the debates about sexuality in this story often indicate much more about present-day politics than they do about the first-century, both from those advocating and those dismissive of homosexual interpretations.