Paul the Homosexual!
If conservative Christians today except a felon, liar, and rapist for a president, why don’t they accept Jesus as a homosexual? There are ample fact’s to suggest that Jesus was a Gay Jew (or at any rate a Gay Samaritan), to support the fact that Jesus and his disciples were seen in ancient time as a roaming band of homosexuals. We hear that Peter was a married man, yet, he leaves his wife to follow Jesus, as did the rest of the disciple, who left, their families, jobs to follow Jesus, and that is, a fact, according to biblical text. As told in the Bible: Simon Peter and Andrew (Matthew 4:18-22, Mark 1:16-20); James and John (Matthew 4:21-22, Mark 1:19-20); Levi (Matthew 9:9-13); Philip and Nathanael (John 1:43-51).
Paul’s references to other disciples being married in 1 Corinthians 9:5 when he says he has a right to marry a believing woman because Peter, Jesus’ brothers, and other apostles had married. Some apostles were wedded! But not Jesus, which is odd in Jewish law and society that men should be wed by their 18th-birthday, or at least his 20th, or face the court of the Sanhedrin. However, Paul’s problem in finding a mate, was surely finding a woman that was smaller than himself, with the same interests as tent making, and going on long walks.
And what of Paul, what was his sexual orientation or preference?
Our sexuality is not “sinful” as my gay and lesbian friends have been labelled, and for which, they have been severely and falsely condemned. Rather, our sexuality is part of our Divinity, whether gay or not. Paul had what he described as a “thorn in the flesh,” but he never said what that was. No writer included in the collection of letters that the church claims to be “god’s word” is as judgmental, condemning, or negative than was Paul. No other writer betrays Jesus’ teachings as does Paul. Why? What was he hiding? Was all his “sin focus” coming out of his own pain of being condemned for what he was sexually? Was he trapped in what he could not change about himself? Was his penchant for negative statements about others, just his own projections to shift his feelings of guilt? I say yes! Paul’s “shadow” was not his sexuality. His shadow was the repression of his Divine Self and the result of not being able to transform it–as it with each of us. Because of all this, he became the Christian Church’s favourite writer, as they replaced Jesus with a theology of “Sin and Judgment.” Come along with me as I “interview” Saul, Paul, and then “St.” Paul. Our own healing deep within awaits our taking the journey into our own Shadows. Beyond judgment and shame, our Divinity awaits our call to bring it forth and shine as Light in the world.—from the book: Conversations with “St.” Paul the Homosexual, by Jim Stacey.
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