Can eunuchs marry?
Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2018 10:39 am
In the news there have been reoccurring events where Christians will either not bake a cake or not take photos for a gay wedding. I have been trying to figure out if this is a correct response or an incorrect one and what I would say on the subject if it arose.
So far I am very much leaning towards it isn't a good Christian response. I guess their fear is that it condones the act, but does it? Jesus dined with sinners and was he there by accused of condoning their actions? While thinking I pondered how much sin someone would be willing to commit or have added to help prevent another persons sin? Sense not baking the cake or taking the photos is very unlikely to prevent the couple from marrying, I see no positive outcome. I don't know how I could in a loving way tell someone that I wont do something for them because they are a sinner, but have nothing to tell them that will stop the sin. Even if someone correctly stated everything they could on the subject, and it didn't stop the couple from marrying what good did it do? Might it just cause the couple to also become unjustly angry at the person doing the correcting and unjustly angry even at God? So now it sounds like more sin is taking place rather then less.
As I pondered this and pondered it further, I also thought about people expressing concerns or opinions on how many sexes there are as this may somehow be related to who can marry whom. I believe some have even incorrectly argued that there are only 2 sexes in the bible. While that was what was created, once sin entered the world, we ended up with 2 sexes and people who aren't either of those two or eunuchs. Some have starting saying that there are some 50 sexes in the world. This number could potentially be arguably way to low. It could be considered there are 2 plus however many eunuchs there are because often eunuchs physical traits are unique to them and no one else.
I would like to ask the declining cake baker what they would do if approached by two eunuchs who wished to marry? What would their response be to a eunuch marrying a man or a woman. I have come to only two thoughts on my own on the subject. One is Mathew 19 where I think it basically says this passage doesn't really apply to eunuchs, but what part of it? The given into marriage, the divorce (unlikely) or that they would marry in the way described here as man and woman. I could see how one could argue this passage means they shouldn't marry. Then we have 1 Timothy 4. This sounds very much like what is going on now. People are being forbidden to marry in later times. It doesn't say what people are forbidden to marry. Could this be the very thing?
Might most homosexuals actually be eunuchs? One common trait of men is that they are attracted to women and women to men. So if one doesn't exhibit this trait might they be a eunuch?
So far I am very much leaning towards it isn't a good Christian response. I guess their fear is that it condones the act, but does it? Jesus dined with sinners and was he there by accused of condoning their actions? While thinking I pondered how much sin someone would be willing to commit or have added to help prevent another persons sin? Sense not baking the cake or taking the photos is very unlikely to prevent the couple from marrying, I see no positive outcome. I don't know how I could in a loving way tell someone that I wont do something for them because they are a sinner, but have nothing to tell them that will stop the sin. Even if someone correctly stated everything they could on the subject, and it didn't stop the couple from marrying what good did it do? Might it just cause the couple to also become unjustly angry at the person doing the correcting and unjustly angry even at God? So now it sounds like more sin is taking place rather then less.
As I pondered this and pondered it further, I also thought about people expressing concerns or opinions on how many sexes there are as this may somehow be related to who can marry whom. I believe some have even incorrectly argued that there are only 2 sexes in the bible. While that was what was created, once sin entered the world, we ended up with 2 sexes and people who aren't either of those two or eunuchs. Some have starting saying that there are some 50 sexes in the world. This number could potentially be arguably way to low. It could be considered there are 2 plus however many eunuchs there are because often eunuchs physical traits are unique to them and no one else.
I would like to ask the declining cake baker what they would do if approached by two eunuchs who wished to marry? What would their response be to a eunuch marrying a man or a woman. I have come to only two thoughts on my own on the subject. One is Mathew 19 where I think it basically says this passage doesn't really apply to eunuchs, but what part of it? The given into marriage, the divorce (unlikely) or that they would marry in the way described here as man and woman. I could see how one could argue this passage means they shouldn't marry. Then we have 1 Timothy 4. This sounds very much like what is going on now. People are being forbidden to marry in later times. It doesn't say what people are forbidden to marry. Could this be the very thing?
Might most homosexuals actually be eunuchs? One common trait of men is that they are attracted to women and women to men. So if one doesn't exhibit this trait might they be a eunuch?