Did Jesus have sexual desires?

[Sparko]

Stop trying to bring the Lord down to your level and try harder to get to where He is.

My Lord did come down to our level. That is what his incarnation WAS. He came down to our level so that he could give us a hand up to his level. To inspire us to be good, to show that even though he DID have temptations, he did not sin. So we can do the same with his help.

[Christianbookworm]

Since sexual desires are a result of certain hormones, the only way Jesus would not have those desires is if He had a hormone deficiency. Such a deficiency would make Him an imperfect sacrifice, right?

[Darfius]

you are tripping. Nobody said he had to experience every temptation, but sexual desire is a basic human desire. It happens. Like getting hungry. It is so common that if Jesus did not feel the temptation then he wasn't human and the verse quoted is a lie.

edited to add:
God gave us sexual desires. Without them we would not even seek out a mate. The problem is when we misuse our desires and they turn into fantasies and lusts, or even into actions like watching porn, or going to strip clubs, or objectifying women.

If Christ never experienced an orgasm or felt physical attraction towards a woman, what exactly did He desire? Be specific as you insult the Lord.

[Darfius]

Since sexual desires are a result of certain hormones, the only way Jesus would not have those desires is if He had a hormone deficiency. Such a deficiency would make Him an imperfect sacrifice, right?

Pure idiocy. Which hormone is responsible for sexual desire?

[Sparko]

If Christ never experienced an orgasm or felt physical attraction towards a woman, what exactly did He desire? Be specific as you insult the Lord.

A desire is not an orgasm, or a "physical" attraction (we both know what you meant) - But you know what? having an erection in response to a woman is NOT sinful, it is natural and pretty much involuntary. God made it that way. So stop trying to make like natural functions are sinful, you sanctimonious prig

[Sparko]

Pure idiocy. Which hormone is responsible for sexual desire?

ok I am starting to think you are really young, or maybe don't understand this whole "sex" thing. If so, I apologize or my being harsh in my last post.

[Christianbookworm]

Pure idiocy. Which hormone is responsible for sexual desire?

Testosterone in males. Estrogen in females. I should know, I have to take hormone replacement and I don't have any desire to mate.

[thewriteranon]

A desire is not an orgasm, or a "physical" attraction (we both know what you meant) - But you know what? having an erection in response to a woman is NOT sinful, it is natural and pretty much involuntary. God made it that way. So stop trying to make like natural functions are sinful, you sanctimonious prig

Not to mention erections happen throughout the course of sleep while the body checks to make sure everything is functioning properly.

[Christianbookworm]

ok I am starting to think you are really young, or maybe don't understand this whole "sex" thing. If so, I apologize or my being harsh in my last post.

Has he been given The Talk yet? I read a medical encyclopedia when I was 8 years old and figured out how reproduction worked.

[Christianbookworm]

Not to mention erections happen throughout the course of sleep while the body checks to make sure everything is functioning properly.

Weird. Glad I'm a female.

[thewriteranon]

Weird. Glad I'm a female.

Afaik, they don't register it consciously unless they wake up with it. Not having erections during the night is a symptom of erectile dysfunction.

[One Bad Pig]

ok I am starting to think you are really young, or maybe don't understand this whole "sex" thing. If so, I apologize or my being harsh in my last post.

Darfius has been around here a while - and this is far from the only subject where his posts make me .

[DesertBerean]

A lot of his comments are very familiar. Darfius, did you discuss this topic about Jesus before?

[Darfius]

A desire is not an orgasm, or a "physical" attraction (we both know what you meant) - But you know what? having an erection in response to a woman is NOT sinful, it is natural and pretty much involuntary. God made it that way. So stop trying to make like natural functions are sinful, you sanctimonious prig

You didn't answer my question, you sanctimonious fool. What is the difference between "having an erection for a woman" and lusting after her? I can't believe you can picture Christ• Edited by a Moderator •. You are really lost. And no, that is most certainly NOT how God made it nor will that be how it is when we are "like the angels" and neither marry nor are given in marriage. You seem to think that Christ was fallen as we are. He wasn't.

George Macdonald, Unspoken Sermons:

And now arises the question upon the right answer to which depends the whole elucidation of the story: How could the Son of God be tempted?

If any one say that he was not moved by those temptations, he must be told that then they were no temptations to him, and he was not tempted; nor was his victory of more significance than that of the man who, tempted to bear false witness against his neighbour, abstains from robbing him of his goods. For human need, struggle, and hope, it bears no meaning; and we must reject the whole as a fantastic folly of crude invention; a mere stage-show; a lie for the poor sake of the fancied truth; a doing of evil that good might come; and, with how many fragments soever of truth its mud may be filled, not in any way to be received as a divine message.

But asserting that these were real temptations if the story is to be received at all, am I not involving myself in a greater difficulty still? For how could the Son of God be tempted with evil--with that which must to him appear in its true colours of discord, its true shapes of deformity? Or how could he then be the Son of his Father who cannot be tempted with evil?

In the answer to this lies the centre, the essential germ of the whole interpretation: He was not tempted with Evil but with Good; with inferior forms of good, that is, pressing in upon him, while the higher forms of good held themselves aloof, biding their time, that is, God's time. I do not believe that the Son of God could be tempted with evil, but I do believe that he could be tempted with good--to yield to which temptation would have been evil in him--ruin to the universe. But does not all evil come from good?

Yes; but it has come from it. It is no longer good. A good corrupted is no longer a good. Such could not tempt our Lord. Revenge may originate in a sense of justice, but it is revenge not justice; an evil thing, for it would be fearfully unjust. Evil is evil whatever it may have come from. The Lord could not have felt tempted to take vengeance upon his enemies, but he might have felt tempted to destroy the wicked from the face of the earth--to destroy them from the face of the earth, I say, not to destroy them for ever. To that I do not think he could have felt tempted.

[Darfius]

Testosterone in males. Estrogen in females. I should know, I have to take hormone replacement and I don't have any desire to mate.

Testosterone gives you body hair and helps develop your sexual organs, but it doesn't cause you to want to have sex. You are wrong.