Sentences with phrase «eunuchs also»

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Transgender people are, however, also sometimes venerated in the South Asian tradition of according spiritual powers to eunuchs and others who fall outside traditional gender divisions.

Jesus also promoted the idea that all men should castrate themselves to go to heaven: «For there are eunuchs, that were so born from their mother's womb: and there are eunuchs, that were made eunuchs by men: and there are eunuchs, that made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake.

Just like there are born eunuchs, there are also homosexuals who have been so since birth, those who can not attribute their orientation to any past incidents in their lives.

I think also of the Ethiopian eunuch (from Acts 8), a man who was ethnically and sexually «other,» who was welcomed and baptized without question or hesitation into the early church, but who would no doubt fail all of Mark Driscoll's rigid categories for a what makes «real man» were he a part of the American evangelical church today.

Herodotus also tells us that in general, eunuchs were cringing, fawning leeches who often just told the king what they thought he wanted to hear.

Herododus, however, also reports that 500 young boys were gathered every year and castrated to serve as eunuchs in the Persian court.

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.

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

He also faulted churches for coalescing around distinctions of class, race, education, and economic status rather than welcoming outcasts — represented in the biblical passage by «foreigners» and «eunuchs» — on equal terms with ourselves as children of God.

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.

Mat 19:12 «For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother's womb; and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men; and there are also eunuchs who made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven.

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

Also, Persian kings were very protective of their wives, and normally only allowed eunuchs to interact with the women.

While the Bible calls all Christians to chastity, it also holds up the celibate life as one honorable vocation in light of the example of our Lord himself and his teaching that there are some who are «eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven» (Matt.

The lack of a response from the three thousand eunuchs in the south - east corner of the Grove will also have helped.

Bombay Eunuch follows Deepa's responses to the group, and through this, the viewer also attains valuable insight into her subjects.

Professor Salby has also addressed the Parliament of Eunuchs in Westminster.