Sentences with phrase «about eunuchs»

One day I reasoned that Jesus was not declaring that this thing he was going to say about eunuchs was special, elite and reserved knowledge for only a few.

Jesus» saying about eunuchs in Matt 19:12 presupposes that eunuchs are not having sexual intercourse at all, let alone having forbidden sexual intercourse.

Not exact matches

A conversation about human rights is always in order, to be sure — particularly in regard to issues of human sexuality — but Isaiah is speaking of the remarkable generosity of God, who «will give an everlasting name» to the eunuchs, precisely those who could establish no name for themselves by the normal processes of procreation.

(Mark 16:16 Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved...) NIV 1973) The Ethiopian eunuch heard the good news about Jesus before he was baptized.

Read about Philip when he witnessed to the eunuch and asked him if he understood the scriptures, and Philip expounded those to him more perfectly from Isaiah.

Btw, a simple Google search provides facts about gay men being called eunuchs back then but.

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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.

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?

What fascinates me about him is he began as such a literalist, castrating himself based on the «eunuchs for the kingdom of God» and «if it offends you cut it off» passages but thereafter adopted a spiritualising reading of the scriptures and wrote a book against castration.

Altizer's literal interpretation of the Incarnation in this third argument seems ultimately even more self - destructive than Origen's well - intentioned but much too literal interpretation of Christ's words to his disciples about those who have courage to make themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven (Matt.

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.

Philip told the eunuch about Jesus, convinced him that Jesus was the fulfillment of the very scripture he was reading, and that no handicap, physical or otherwise, would exclude a person from full fellowship in Christian faith.

Many assume that this Eunuch was a Gentile, but it is placed in the section about the Gospel going to the «half - breed» Samaritans.

Clearly, there were others traveling with the Ethiopian Eunuch who would have seen him get baptized, would have asked him about it on their journey back to Ethiopia, and would have observed his life and actions to see what differences (if any) followed as a result of the Eunuch fully identifying himself with Jesus.