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<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cHow dare you insinuate Jesus had a vagina!\u201d The woman was livid. In my talk, I stumbled on the most disturbing idea she\u2019d ever been presented with. With church doctrine and dogma over the centuries in mind, the thought of Jesus having a vagina didn\u2019t seem too out there for me. Since the earliest days of the church, haven\u2019t Christians believed that Jesus was fully human and fully divine in every sense of the words?<\/p>\n
\u201cSo you believe that Jesus was transgender?\u201d \u201cWhat would be so bad about that?\u201d I mused aloud. Knowing that I didn\u2019t have time for extended conversation about gender performance, I pressed on with a conversation focused on genitalia. While I can\u2019t know for sure, I feel like some combination between a vagina and penis was probably what the most perfect representative of all sexes and genders to ever exist was working with. Regardless, the woman continued, \u201cI know for a fact that Jesus was a man with a penis!\u201d In deep anticipation of a strong argument, I waited for her next sentence. \u201cWe all know that God has a penis and Jesus is God.\u201d \u201cWhat happens when God gets an erection?\u201d I asked. I couldn\u2019t help but make an absurd remark. The idea of anyone being certain that God has a penis and a penis alone was too much for me. Feeling the need to wrap up the conversation, I paused and asked her a question, \u201cHow did the penis feel when you reached up Jesus\u2019 skirt and grabbed it?\u201d I don\u2019t know anyone who ever saw or touched the sexual organs of Jesus. Flabbergasted, the woman walked out.<\/p>\n
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\u201cGod created humanity in God\u2019s own image, in the divine image God created them, male and female God created them.\u201d With regard to our connection to God, I believe there is no more powerful of a verse of scripture than Genesis 1:27. The scriptures declare that God created the first persons to be male and female. In Eden, I believe the first persons had both sexual organs and functioned at unique spaces on the gender spectrum. The scriptures declare that the entireties of our beings are created in the very image of God. How could God not have both sexual organs? The first persons were intimately connected to God. Throughout the early church, there was a constant theological desire to connect Jesus with the first persons. If Jesus was like the first persons, then it makes since that Jesus would have a vagina and a penis.<\/p>\n
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Regardless of whether you believe these theological arguments or not, Jesus declares that the incarnation is not a singular event. In Matthew 25:40, Jesus says, \u201cWhat you have done to the least of these\u2026you have done to me.\u201d In placing Jesus\u2019 very being with the least of these, Jesus becomes the least of these. Throughout Matthew 25, Jesus says that the person of Jesus will inhabit the hungry, the thirsty, those who are strangers, the naked, the sick and those who are in prison. I think we can be certain that persons with vaginas are regularly a part of each of these categories. With that affirmed and sealed for eternity, we can also be sure that Jesus has a vagina.<\/p>\n
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I believe that the vagina of Jesus is a miraculous occurrence. We should work to smash the patriarchal understandings of Jesus for broader conceptions that create greater access to the person of Jesus. If this essay offends you\u2026I encourage you to get saved from your addiction to erectile theology.<\/p>\n
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