Sentences with phrase «eunuch did»

Not exact matches

Foreigners and eunuchs are called to observe Torah and confess their faith just as do other Israelites.

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Still think that the water and how much are still portant in order to baptized like John the Baptist did as well as Philip and Eunuch in Acts 8

So, the eunuch saying... don't you think this is to have a joke at the expense of his faithless disciples?

The Bible speaks to us just as it did to the Ethiopian eunuch.

In case you don't know, a eunuch is a castrated male.

Then the king said to the wise men who understood the times (for this was the king's manner toward all who knew law and justice, those closest to him being Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, who had access to the king's presence, and who ranked highest in the kingdom): «What shall we do to Queen Vashti, according to law, because she did not obey the command of King Ahasuerus brought to her by the eunuchs?»

So long as the choice is put in these terms, it would be difficult to do other than to choose to be a political eunuch in order to become a servant in the Kingdom of God.

Jenny - Anne cites two passages commonly used to argue that Jesus spent time with, and did not judge, eunuchs — representing those who fall outside of gender norms.

But in Matthew, in that same paragraph, Jesus mentions gay men as «born eunuchs» and does not condemn them at all.

gay does not = eunuch but you can look up in dictionary... and it actually gives rise that if someone did have the inclination they should be celibate.

Also, so a castrated straight man no longer finds women attractive??? Um, yeah, Another Google search will tell you the type of eunuchs Kings used were the «born eunuch» type since they didn't find women attractive.

How many times do I have to tell you a simple Google search proves «born eunuchs» back then meant gay people.

Jesus also mentions gay men as «born eunuchs» in Matthew and again does not condemn them.

«The eunuch asked Philip: «About whom, may I ask you, does the prophet say this, about himself or about someone else?»

Oh, I do actually have one more thing to say about baptism in Acts, which I will post tomorrow when we look at the baptism of the Ethiopian Eunuch.

If Jesus gave special status in his day to persons who do not procreate, on what grounds do churches today treat modern eunuchs — single people, homosexuals, and childless couples — like outcasts?

When Philip In Acts 8 had finished teaching the Ethiopian Eunuch about Jesus from the old testament till the present moment why did Philip baptise him with water if all it took was belief in Jesus?

Understandable so, I don't want anyone to have the right to force a man to be a eunuch.

Jesus referred him to the classes of those who customarily didn't want to marry or couldn't marry - monks (for the sake of the kingdom of heaven - men damaged by the practice of making eunuchs for use as governmental servants (Egypt generally) and the class of people who «from their mother's womb «are not suited (for women?)

It is one of Gods requirements we be baptised Jesus said it and the disciples in Acts did it the Ethiopian Eunuch demanded it and Philip was pleased to carry it out.

Jesus referred him to the classes of people whp either couldn't or didn't want to be married — those who were monks for the sake of the kingdom of heaven - those who were damaged by others such as eunuchs made to serve the governmemt in Egypt mainly — and those who were eunuchs, had no incliination (to woman?)

However, in these passages, while Jesus reiterates (but does not require) the traditional marriage, he also provides an exception for eunuchs (castrated men — or otherwise impotent men, in today's terms), and allowed them to be married, saying that this law is given to those to whom it applies.

If you say a «female eunuch» (more female than male) can only marry a male, and a «male eunuch» (more male than female) can only marry a female, at what point on this spectrum of possibilities do you place demarcations as to what is acceptable?

Also remember that kings normally did not let anyone come into contact with their wives except the royal eunuchs.

Nowhere in this passage do we hear Jesus judging, restricting, disqualifying or in anyway marginalizing eunuchs.

Let me interject here that the research being done about inter-sex children, those who are born «eunuchs» from their mother's womb, is shedding new light into this whole issue of gender identity and sexual attraction.

The best evidence we have is what the Hindus did, which was divvy everyone up into groups based on the nature of their relationship (I don't remember offhand if this was only addressing gay men and / or eunuchs as opposed to women).

Philip did not follow it up, nor did the apostles send any evangelists into Ethiopia to build on the eunuch's experience.

If this Ethiopian Eunuch was all alone and far away from home, then nobody would have seen or known what he did on this deserted road in Israel, and therefore, his baptism could not have been a public testimony to anyone.

Yes, you are like those castrated eunuchs of yore who would do nothing to a smashing beauty even if they found her in a pool of water, stark nude.

Alexander does bed the dancing Persian eunuch Bagoas (Francisco Bosch), which feels like a consolation prize.

There is one scene in which Alexander smooches his chief eunuch (whom I must disappointingly say, does NOT resemble «Red Dwarf's» Arnold Judas Rimmer).

Unfortunately, I get the contracts after the offer process, and so, like the harem eunuch, I know what to do, but the damage has been done.