Some Eunuchs Are Gay.
In History And In Scripture, Eunuchs Are Sometimes Gay Men Or Lesbians

A eunuch is literally ‘a keeper of the bed.’ Eunouchos conveys the idea of superintendent of the bedchamber, bed keeper, bed guard.

The definition of eunuch may also include a man incapable of marriage, not sexually attracted to women or unwilling to marry a woman.

1. It could mean incapable of heterosexual marriage because the eunuch is same sex attracted and thus, not interested in heterosexual marriage.

2. It could mean asexual, not feeling sexual attraction toward either sex.

3. In rare cases, eunuch could refer to one born with genital defects which make siring children impossible, although this condition is not mentioned in scripture.

4. A eunuch for the sake of the kingdom of heaven is a man who is capable of marriage but voluntarily abstains from marriage in order to better serve God.

The Greek word eunouchizo literally means to castrate a man. In ancient times, castration was accomplished by crushing the testicles to make them inoperative or by cutting off the testicles. Sometimes, the penis was also removed in the castration process. Without testicles, a man is incapable of producing sperm and is therefore incapable of procreation.

Eunouchizo is used historically and in scripture to refer to castrated men and uncastrated men, one class of whom, Jesus described as born eunuchs, who had not been physically castrated by man. That is one important reason some Christians believe eunuchs are gay men and women.

Eunouchizo is sometimes used metaphysically, to describe one who voluntarily abstains from traditional marriage.

The Hebrew word saris. According to the Brown, Driver, Briggs, Gesenius Hebrew Lexicon, the Hebrew word for eunuch is saris and its derivatives. Saris is believed to be an Assyrian loan word. A secondary meaning of saris, from the Hebrew, is to castrate but Jesus speaks with divine authority when He teaches that not all eunuchs are castrated, Matthew 19:12. According to Jesus, some eunuchs are born that way, in distinction from a man who has been physically castrated.

Jewish rabbis in ancient times used the word saris to describe both castrated individuals and uncastrated individuals, men the rabbis referred to as natural eunuchs. The Hebrew word saris-eunuch, is found 45 times in the Old Testament, translated in the King James Bible as eunuch 17 times, chamberlain 13 times, officer 12 times and Rabsaris, 3 times. Eunuchs are mentioned 10 times in six verses in the New Testament.

Is that a biased assertion by gay Christians attempting to alibi their sin or is there scholarly support for such a statement?

Dr. Robert Gagnon, prolific anti-gay, evangelical Christian author, admits on his website, that “born eunuchs” in the ancient world were probably gay.

"Probably "born eunuchs" in the ancient world did include people homosexually inclined, which incidentally puts to the lie the oft-repeated claim that the ancient world could not even conceive of persons that were congenitally influenced toward exclusive same-sex attractions." - Dr. Gagnon

Based on Jesus’ statement in Matthew 19:12, many people believe that the first category of eunuchs Jesus mentioned includes gay men.

"For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother’s womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and 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.”

Scholarly conjecture that a eunuch can only be a physically castrated man or a genitally deformed man but never a physically intact gay man is only conjecture. It has no basis in fact.

When an anti-gay evangelical with the scholarly credentials of Dr. Robert Gagnon, a man who stedfastly opposes all homosexual practice as sinful, admits that the Biblical category of "born eunuch" probably included homosexuals, that is an important admission.

In the Jewish New Testament, translated by David Stern, Matthew 19:12 tells us the first class of eunuchs (born eunuchs) do not marry

According to David Stern’s translation, Jesus says that some males are born into the world “without the desire” to marry a woman. Stern understands a born eunuch to be a man born without the desire to marry a woman.

According to Jesus, this is a perfectly natural situation, beause the individual is born that way. Being a born eunuch is not the result of personal choice (since they were born that way). And according to Jesus, being “born a eunuch” exempts eunuchs from the Adam and Eve marriage paradigm, Matthew 19:11-12.

1. The term eunuch, in history and scripture, frequently referred to gay men. Therefore we conclude that eunuchs are gay or at least some eunuchs are/were gay.

2. The term eunuch, in history, also referred to what we now call lesbians.

3. Eunuchs-gay men, in history and scripture, are often, anatomically whole, not physically castrated.

4. Eunuchs in history and scripture are frequently, gay men who feel no sexual attraction toward women. Eunuchs are gay.

5. Eunuchs are gay men, in history and scripture, who are specifically excluded, by Jesus, from the Adam and Eve marriage paradigm.

6. Eunuchs are gay men, who sometimes married women, in order “to pass,” to fit in culturally.

7. Eunuchs-gay men, historically, were recognized by Rabbis of ancient Judaism, by ancient Roman law and by ancient Christian preachers, as physically intact men, who were born with no sexual attraction toward women, what one ancient preacher referred to as natural chastity.

8. Eunuchs are gay men, in scripture, and were usually outstanding, honourable, brave, Godly men, who occupied a place of great responsibility and spiritual blessing. Eunuchs are gay.

9. Eunuchs are gay men, in early church history, who were welcomed into the Eastern church, as pastors, presbyters, deacons and bishops.

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