Do you think Jesus died a virgin?

We believe in one God, the Father All-sovereign, maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible;

And in one Lord Jesus Christ, and the only-begotten Son of God, Begotten of the Father before all the ages, Light of Light, true God of true God, begotten not made, of one substance with the Father
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And if Jesus, God, and the Holy Ghost are the same person, does that mean that he impregnated his own mother?

and yet he bled and died

People, the very question is erroneous, since Jesus Christ is not a regular human like me or anyone of the A2Kers. He is God the Son, part of the Trinity, therefore He cannot be assessed using criteria applied to regular people, whatever these people are, righteous or not.

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We believe in one God, the Father All-sovereign, maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible;

And in one Lord Jesus Christ, and the only-begotten Son of God, Begotten of the Father before all the ages, Light of Light, true God of true God, begotten not made, of one substance with the Father
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This is The Creed of Nicea. The bolded part of the text shows the divine nature of the very body of Jesus; therefore, He does not experience the same urges the humans do.

I do not think Jesus was the son of God, you do.

It is not enough, Jesus tells us, to deal with the external and visible implications of your sexual choices: you must also deal with your inner life. The real battle is the battle for the mind. If you can win here, and reach a condition in which even mental adultery is unknown to you, then you will find it that much easier to deal with temptation in the physical arena. It would be easy to dismiss this concept of ?'adultery in the heart' as prudish, petty and legalistic - if it wasn't for the fact that pornography is one of the planet's biggest businesses and women and children the world over are prisoners of various forms of sexual slavery. Men are not the only ones guilty of sexual exploitation, but they are majority shareholders, and the language of Matthew 5:28 shows that Jesus knew this. At every stage of human technological growth, the pornographers have been there to re-invent their industry, adapting first to print, then to film and now, supremely,to the Internet. Call Jesus a killjoy if you will, but he was onto something here. C S Lewis writes, ?'Suppose you came to a country where you could fill a theatre by simply bringing a covered plate onto the stage and then slowly lifting the cover so as to let everyone see, just before the lights went out, that it contained a mutton chop or a bit of bacon. Should you not think that in that country, something had gone wrong with the appetite for food?' C.S.Lewis, Mere Christianity, quoted in Richard Foster, Money, Sex and Power, (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1985), p103

Jesus does not tell us to spend our whole lives running from our sexuality. But neither does he encourage us to seek gratification and fulfilment at all costs. Rather, he establishes a framework of grace and justice within which it is possible - and pleasurable - to express and explore our sexual nature without hurting others. This is the aim of Christian sexuality - the ultimate goal of the Biblical ?'Good Sex Guide' - that we are able to enjoy everything that God has given without destroying our fellow humans. The limits are there because the potential for pain and destruction is so vast. Where the hyper-religious can see no good in sexual activity, and the hyper-liberal can see no harm, Jesus sees that both are possible. He sees both the beauty and the boundaries; the pleasure and the pain.

The language of chastity, monogamy and fidelity may have an old-fashioned ring in our culture, but Jesus' remarkable approach to sexuality remains starkly relevant to our lives. In its courage, its honesty and its compassion, it has the potential not only to guide us but in many ways to heal our lives.

?'Adapted from "Humanifesto: the Rough Guide to the Sermon on the Mount" by Gerard Kelly, published by Spring Harvest / Paternoster, 2001'