JESUS, SEX AND CHRISTIANITY

Hugh Fogelman

 

 

The author of Matthew, in Chapter 19, supposedly recorded Jesus’ own words about castrated men when his teachings on divorce.

“…There be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it. (Matthew 19:12, King James Version)

Based on this verse, which was the words actually spoken by Jesus according to the New Testament, many believers and even some church fathers castrated themselves. This was also a custom of the pagan worship of Cybelle which was popular at the time of the early church. Castration had/has absolutely no part in Torah Judaism. This verse clearly shows that Matthew, at best, had only a cursory knowledge of Judaism.

Even if one takes Matthew 19:12 metaphorically, using Christian “blind faith;” no one can logically think that these are the words of a man who is supposed to be a god. Even in the metaphoric nature they hold no value and no mark of what a civilized person would say. This is simply insane!

The New Testament shows that Jesus, just like Paul, had sexual hang-ups or perversions. And who wouldn’t call the self-mutilation of castration a perversion? Sadly, the tone of Matthew’s in Chapter 19 sounds very much like a Pauline sick sex thought.

There is no record that Paul was ever married. His painful experience with the priest’s daughter appears to have soured him against women in general, for Paul wrote; “It is good for a man not to touch a woman.” (l Corinthians 7:1). He continues to warn “For I would that all men were even as myself… It is good for them if they abide even as I. referring to those who were not married. Paul does not believe that marriage is based on personal love, but that it only has one purpose; satisfying, in a legal manner, the sexual urge.

I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, it is good for them if they abide even as I. But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn. (l Corinthians 7:8-9).

Christian partners in marriage are bound to give each other the “conjugal rights” that each owes to the other:

The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife (l Corinthians 7:4).

 Paul also demanded husbands:

“… if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and … Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: … But this I say … they that have wives be as though they had none; (l Corinthians 7:28-29)

Perverted? Sick? Yes it is! Remember dear people, Paul is the so-called author of most of the New Testament books and the missionary founder of Christianity. Thos who carefully study the New Testament will see that the religion of Jesus was Judaism! Christianity is merely the invention of Paul or more properly “Pauline Christology” – a religion about Jesus.    

Many of the church fathers showed a deep hostility to women. This attitude was no doubt affected by the sexual attitude of Paul and the personal teaching of Jesus in Matthew 19.  Tertullian (Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus, born probably about 160 at Carthage) insisted on the renunciation of marriage, since it was based on the same act as harlotry. Tertullian’s famous defamatory view of women was clearly revealed when he referred to them as the “gate through which the devil enters.” And from there the Catholic Church next created the celibate priesthood and nuns; leading to today’s wide-spread sexual abuse of the Church’s youth.

Paul approves of marriage as a last resort: "But if they cannot contain, let them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn." (1 Corinthians 7: 9). These are powerful and telling words – as a last resort, it is better to marry than to burn. Paul was so down on women that he made up his own laws - 1 Corinthians 7:39 (NIV):

“A woman is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to marry anyone she wishes, but he must belong to the Lord.  (Whatever this means).

Paul is wrong again! 1 Corinthians 7:39 is simply not true; it completely violates God’s eternal Torah. Torah permits a man to give his wife a divorce after which she is free to marry another man. Please just study what Deuteronomy 24:1-2  (KJV) has to say:

“If a man marries a woman who becomes displeasing to him because he finds something indecent about her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce, gives it to her and sends her from his house, and if after she leaves his house she becomes the wife of another man,”

Even Matthew supposedly recorded Jesus speaking of divorce:

It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement (Matthew 5:31)

Verse 31 in Matthew (Chapter 5 above) agrees with Torah and directly disproves what Paul wrote. Oh, but Christians follow Paul, not the religion of Jesus.

HOWEVER, the next verse (32):

Jesus says “…whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.

has nothing to do with God’s Torah. It has Jesus saying that to marry a divorced woman is a sin worthy of death, (adultery). Exactly who is harmed by such a marriage? How could such an act harm a god or anyone else and why should it? Such rules as these found in the Christian Bible (New Testament) are the products of barbaric, savage, sick and perverted minds. No civilized human being can honestly say that these are moral teachings in any way, shape or form. This is not the teaching of God in His eternal Torah!

Matthew 5:28 should make you wonder why any man would say what Jesus did:

 “… That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.” (KJV)

Whenever someone points a finger to accuse, usually that person has done the same thing – or perhaps, that verse and the others (castration etc) simply show Jesus was not even rational. The New Testament teachings on sex−Jesus and Paul−are strange at best! Sex is natural and beautiful and is part and parcel of our world. But according to Christianity, lusting is a crime worthy of death.

In essence, Jesus and Paul think that sex is evil. The church fathers enforce Jesus and Paul’s concept by making themselves all celibate. So many Christian pastors, priest and monks are noted of conducting incest in their church. For information on the Catholic Church’s official castration of young men read the Official Church Policy: Castrati .

Possibly one reason why Paul was against sex was that he firmly believed the end of the world was at hand and raising families would be a waste of time. After all, he preached that Jesus was going to appear at any time, and when he came, earth would be no more. Just another failed Christian prophecy!

However, what was Jesus’ excuse? Jesus enjoyed women around him. They served a purpose; they fed him and washed and mended his clothes. They did everything but procreate. What? Didn’t God command Adam and Eve to “be fruitful and multiply? This is one of the 613 Commandments of God recorded in Torah. Surely Jesus would have known to “be fruitful and multiply.” According to the New Testament Jesus was a Jew and taught in the temple. Don’t you think that if Jesus was God’s “son” he certainly knew what his “Father” commanded for His people – of which Jesus was a member of the children of Israel? According to the New Testament, Jesus knew he would be going to Jerusalem to die. So what did he do? Instead of being with Mary, making a baby Jesus Jr; he chose to run with his single unmarried (gay?) disciples. Yes, these were the same disciples that the New Testament can not even name; the ones who did not even know of Jesus’ mission.

But what about those Christian believers and even some church fathers who castrated themselves and others too?  What about priests and popes supposedly being celibate? Are they twisting a hidden ugly truth of Christianity, of Jesus, of Paul?

Christianity thrives because its followers do not think for themselves, but are sheeple who are deceived by their crafty clergy and ignorant friends.

"As G-d created our minds, He expects us to use our reasoning together with our faith. Faith is not a substitute for reason, but a development from it and alongside it."

THINK!

 

 

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