Did the early church believe that Jesus was celibate?
Upvote:2
Yes, at least two of the Church Fathers refer to Jesus as being not only celibate but a lifelong virgin.
Tertullian c 200, On Monogamy 3 - the Lord Himself opens the kingdoms of the heavens to eunuchs, as being Himself, withal, a virgin; to whom looking, the apostle also — himself too for this reason abstinent — gives the preference to continence.
St. Methodius of Olympus c. 300. Banquet of Ten Virgins 1.4 It was reserved for the Lord alone to be the first to teach this doctrine [eunuchs for the Kingdom]... He who was first and chief of priests, of prophets, and of angels, should also be saluted as first and chief of virgins. For in old times man was not yet perfect, and for this reason was unable to receive perfection, which is virginity.
More post
- 📝 Why did the Western and Eastern churches react to their respective states so differently?
- 📝 Are there biblical examples that justify fantasy-scare?
- 📝 Is it possible for a non-Jew to join Messianic Judaism?
- 📝 If the flood was recent and local, then when did humans become omnivores?
- 📝 What are the origins of the Our Lady of Grace statues?
- 📝 What denominations believe in a universal bodily resurrection?
- 📝 Who pays for Protestant seminary education for aspiring ministers?
- 📝 Does the Chalcedonian Definition mean Christ has two minds?
- 📝 What is the Magisterium of the Catholic Church and what power do they have?
- 📝 If our body is the church, why should we go to a place called church?
- 📝 How have Christians dealt with "I prayed my way to moral behavior"?
- 📝 God's emotions in contrast to his transcendence? (Catholic position)
- 📝 When are the various assorted labels for Catholics - see body - applied and how are they related?
- 📝 Who was the target audience of the Book of Job?
- 📝 How to contemplate without the urge to have to comprehend
- 📝 Which Psalms did Wesley leave out in Sunday Service of the Methodists? and why?
- 📝 When the child shall play at the hole of the asp, will it be newly created or re-created?
- 📝 Are there explicit statements in the New Testament about the purpose of life?
- 📝 How does the Catholic doctrine of free will reconcile with peccability?
- 📝 According to Trinitarians, who is seated on the Throne and who takes His scroll from His right hand, in Rev 4 and 5?
- 📝 What countries today have severe restrictions against Christianity as state policy?
- 📝 What is a mission trip?
- 📝 How can the translators of the New World Translation say that their version is near what was originally written?
- 📝 Why is the Bible seemingly silent on the love which the God the Son has for God the Father?
- 📝 Who is being referred to in [Numbers 24:9]?
- 📝 According to the Assembly of God, must a person love God to get into heaven, if he believes in Christ?
- 📝 Why was Theodosius successful in ending the Arian Controversy?
- 📝 What are the theological implications of distributing Communion under one kind only?
- 📝 Did Jesus help drunk people in Cana to be even more drunk?
- 📝 Does anything different happen during General Conference when there's a new president?
Source: stackoverflow.com
Search Posts
Related post
- 📝 Did the early church believe that Jesus was crucified on a cross or on a stake?
- 📝 Did the early church believe that Jesus was uncreated?
- 📝 Did the early church believe that Jesus was celibate?
- 📝 Did the early church believe that St. Peter was the first pope?
- 📝 Did the Early Church believe that Mary was the spouse of the Holy Spirit?
- 📝 Did the Early Church Fathers believe that Mary was the queen of heaven?
- 📝 Why did so many early church fathers say that sex was a consequence of the Fall?
- 📝 Did adherents of apocatastasis in the early church believe that the devil and his demons would be restored?
- 📝 Did most of the people that Jesus heal believe he was God? If so, why does the Bible not record them asking for salvation?
- 📝 Did the early Church fathers believe the Law of Moses was never able to justify?
- 📝 Did any of the Early Church Fathers believe that Revelation 12:1-5 is about the Virgin Mary?
- 📝 Did any Early Church Father believe that being armed/self-defence was justified?
- 📝 Did the early church believe that the damned would be eternally punished in a literal hell of fire?
- 📝 Did any Early Church Fathers believe that Mary was without sin?
- 📝 Why does the LDS church believe that alcohol was forbidden, despite being common in the Bible?
- 📝 Did Jesus know from the outset that He was the Son of God or did Mary tell Him?
- 📝 Did Baptist and Methodists ever believe that Jesus is Michael the Archangel?
- 📝 Did Jesus tell us that we should give a tenth to The Church and then give of the excess to the poor?
- 📝 What did the early church believe about the "rapture"?
- 📝 Why did the Jews comment that Jesus was not yet fifty years of age?
- 📝 According to Catholicism, did St. Paul believe that end of the world was imminent?
- 📝 When the early church was formalising the canon, what did they understand by the word 'Inspired'?
- 📝 What did the early Church Fathers (pre-Nicea A.D. 325) have to say about faith, baptism and if it is the act of baptism that saves?
- 📝 When is earliest mention of the Church tradition that Jesus was born in a cave?
- 📝 Did the early church teach that God performed the first animal sacrifice in Gen 3:21?
- 📝 How can apologists argue that if Jesus did not rise again then Christianity and the Church would not have lasted, when other religions have?
- 📝 Did the experts and authorities behind the King James Version believe that their work was divine, inspired and inerrant?
- 📝 Did early Christians believe the world was about to end?
- 📝 What did the Early Church Fathers believe about the fate of the unreached?
- 📝 Did any Apostolic or Ante-Nicene Fathers believe that Jesus was a created being?