The Sexualizing Jesus

 

In Spain an artist named Salustiano Garcia painted a painting of Jesus for Holy Week and it is causing a stir. The image is Jesus with only a lion cloth covering his privates, a suggestive posture, and a red background. The Archbishop of Seville and the Socialist Party Leader and Mayor have defended the art piece. The Artist Garcia says, “to see sexuality in my image of Christ, you must be mad!” (https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/effeminate-jesus-poster-stirs-controversy-in-spain-1234694819/amp/ ). However, the famous Caravaggio who painted a beloved scene of the Last Supper was openly homosexual and pioneered a queer artistic revolution; you can see his sexual preference in the hands and parts of his paintings, much like I see in this painting by Garcia. 

Homosexuals have tried to caste Jesus as a gay man, they claim he spent a lot of time with his male disciples. He also spent time with women too, he discipled Mary and Martha (Luke 10:38-42), and had the Women of Galilee supporting His Ministry (Luke 8:1-3), it is Dan Brown in his devilish fiction of The Da Vinci that asserted Jesus had a wife. All sexual orientations lay claim to Christ, but Jesus is God and would never be sexual towards men or women, for He flooded Earth over angels having sex with women! (Genesis 6:4-12) and destroyed two cities over sexual immorality (Genesis 19); by extension He would then never be sexual towards anyone! Jesus is the Holy Lord that is pure and without blemish, and this activity trying to paint him in a sexual light is the lack of sacredness in people today!, “For people will love only themselves and their money. They will be boastful and proud, scoffing at God, disobedient to their parents, and ungrateful. They will consider nothing sacred.” (2 Timothy 3:2). There use to be respect for God and what people consider sacred! 

But it this also a false christ, to depict Jesus as He is not is a antichrist, in this case it is in a painting form rather than doctrinal form like Arianism, or a literal false christ like Reverend Sung Yung Moon or the false theology of the Mormon Jesus. I admit I saw this painting prior to hearing there is outrage over it and could sense its sexual suggestiveness despite what the artist claims, and I am not alone, 12,000 people in Seville gave their signature over the course of three days for its removal over its homoerotic suggestive nature.  

Our Lord Jesus Christ is Holy, and the spirit of this present age is trying to morph Him into its sensibilities. All who try to depict our Lord as sensual, whither Homoerotic or Heteroerotic, or in other abominable ways not mentioned will stand before the Righteous Christ and be judged for their acts of trying to taint Him who was without sin, “You know that he appeared in order to take away sins, and in him there is no sin,” (1 John 3:5), “He committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth,” (1 Peter 2:22), and “For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.” (Hebrews 4:15). 

We are called to holiness, “Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.” (Hebrews 12:14) and “For God has not called us for impurity, but in holiness.” (1 Thessalonians 4:7). What this means is you have to believe in the holy Jesus (John 3:16) and holiness He imparts to us by faith in Him, and we then bear fruit of holiness and other fruit through Him, “I am the vine and you are the branches. The one who remains in Me, and I in him, will bear much fruit. For apart from Me you can do nothing.” (John 15:5); We are to be holy like Jesus through Jesus’ help and through Him. But if a person tries to depict Jesus as He is not, unholy, then they are not holy and are like the evil one, and must repent. I pray this artist sees past his own work, that He realizes that whither intentional or not his artpiece is maligning The Messiah, and he will have to stand at The Last Judgment before Him for it. I pray he recants this artwork, and uses his talent to glorify the holy, not tear it down with his brush. And I mean that whither homoerotic or any other kind of erotica; there should be no erotic elements to Emmanuel paintings, our Lord Jesus is pure and holy, never having sinned or done anything sexual. Amen.