![]() Several works, both scholarly and popular, have been published in the last decade suggesting that Jesus was gay. Lately, gay scholars have seen many things in the Bible that heterosexuals have apparently missed for the past 2,000 years. You maybe have to be gay to read the signals and to see things and research things which other people wouldn’t” (as quoted in Johns, 2001). You could also say that heterosexual people have their eyes wide shut on the matter, that they don’t want to see that Jesus would have been of a gay disposition…. McCleary replied: “You could see that either way. Rollan McCleary, an Australian academic who recently wrote a book arguing that Jesus and His disciples were gay, was asked if his own homosexuality tainted his research. Interestingly, the homosexual community feels that the traditional “hetero-normative” Jesus is a reflection of heterosexual Christians who have read into Jesus their own sexuality, while ignoring the possibility that Jesus was a homosexual. George Tyrell famously commented in 1909 that when the Liberal Protestant scholars looked back at Christ “through nineteen centuries of Catholic darkness,” what they saw was “only the reflection of their Liberal Protestant face, seen at the bottom of a deep well” (as quoted in Bryan, 1996, p. So long as we craft God in our own image, God cannot condemn us, and we will always be approved regardless of our error. This is a clear reflection of our “sexually liberated” age, just as other versions of Jesus proliferated through the ages are snapshots of their own time. Most recently, Jesus has been characterized by some scholars as a libertine and a homosexual. Forty years later, in the 1960s, the same historians saw Him as a radical revolutionary pushing for political change. ![]() In the United States, the foremost historians of the 1920s considered Jesus a social reformer. In nineteenth-century Europe, Jesus was a Romantic, then an Existentialist. ![]() Over the last several centuries, people have made Jesus what they wanted Him to be. ![]()
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