What is a Eunuch?

Even the church is getting confused

But the married man is concerned about the affairs of this world, how he can please his wife, and his interests are divided. ...

1 Corinthians 7:33-34

I think that, when this world sees that men have taken almost sole responsibility for a woman, this world tries to craft that woman into mankind's image. But nothing could be more wrong than that.

Man is man, and woman is woman. There are no two ways about that.

Just remember: Jesus is "head" of the church, but the true church always will remain the precious, spiritually untouched, blameless, uncorrupted, "bride" of Heaven.

No matter how much responsibility men take for the church or for a woman, the Christhead and the woman are as Heaven meant each to be: distinctively different parts of creation, but part of the same spiritual body.

With that in mind, we should remember how Jesus says the violent always have taken the Kingdom of Heaven by force. I think He has women at heart when He says that — women and children. Remember, Herod killed many children in an attempt to keep Jesus from being Jesus.

Where women are concerned, I think that's important to remember. Because, for the longest time, in China, baby girls were not valued. Even at the embryonic stage, this world has made countless attempts to change a child's gender from female to male.

But faith says, to me, that Heaven (not chance) is sovereign, and that gender is set at the moment of conception. What God does to knit His sovereign will around errors introduced through genetic tinkering after conception is sometimes miraculous, especially when a lot of loving faith goes into correcting errors that cripple some children, or errors that challenge our faith.

But wherever men have leeway to tinker with genetics, there's always going to be some confusion. Men are probably always going to want to overide what the love of Jesus has done, including promoting the idea that men who shepherd women ARE women.

What is a eunuch?

Women who are led or cared for by men of faith are not men. We are women who are cared for by others than just ourselves.

And that brings me to a question that more people ought to look into: the question, "What is a eunuch?"

We don't use the term eunuch in modern English, but people who lived when the Bible was being put on paper very well knew what a eunuch is.

One dictionary, today, says a eunuch is "a man who has been castrated, especially (in the past) one employed to guard the women's living areas at an oriental court."

When the Bible was being written down, castrated men, and men who were born underdeveloped, were often employed — and often enslaved (separated from society) — as workers who took care of women in royal courts.

This takes courage and hope to say, but it may even be possible that our Savior, Jesus, was born as such, not meant to fully develop reproductively.

Why do I hope and find courage to say that?

I think and say that because of a prophecy: Isaiah 56:2-5.

Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that layeth hold on it; that keepeth the Sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil. 

Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the Lord, speak, saying, "The Lord hath utterly separated me from his people." Neither let the eunuch say, "Behold, I am a dry tree." 

For thus saith the Lord unto the eunuchs that keep my Sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant: 

Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: 

I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.

By faith, I never will be able to speak the jargon that led to features on Oprah and The Doctors about "men" who have given birth to children. ... Those are not men, but are women who have been genetically altered.

And I will not use the word "transgender" about us women who had something inappropriate removed at birth. When a baby girl has a genetic error that causes extra skin that is not meant to yield the seed for a child, she is not transgender; she is a girl (able to carry babies after a while in life) in need of a corrective procedure other than butchery!

Our ability to bear children is in place from the moment we are conceived; and, when I say "bare," I mean the ability to carry a child in the womb.

Men who are actual men are not able to develop a womb, nor to menstruate, at any point in life. And that any woman has been crafted to have a little extra tissue that can be manipulated through electrified charges to the nervous system is completely beside the point.

After all, the Bible says an antichrist "makes" (creates) a lie.

That's the way I feel when women are surgically butchered and called "transgender men." ... Mind you, I know that science can alter DNA even at the bone level, but man imposing his will on creation doesn't speak to God's sovereign will.

Politically correct jargon calls some people "transgender men," though they are women. It doesn't matter if men shepherd a woman; that doesn't make her a man. And a preponderance of male body tissues don't make women male.

Praise Heaven for that truth.

And praise Heaven that God foresaw the genetic error that some true males would experience, and that He assured those of ancient times that they would be redeemed in Jesus! (Isaiah 56:5)

Heaven did not leave us clueless when He gave us the Bible, people.

Eunuchs of the Bible were not women.

Eunuchs were men who were castrated, or who were impotent because of a birth defect.

Eunuchs were not women with excess skin, nor people who didn't have a gender.

They were men, including some men who didn't fully develop. And, guess what?

Our Savior said that some of them were devoted to life in Him, being celibate.

So, some people take "be fruitful and multiply" much too far. God's purpose is NOT for everyone in this world to marry and raise large families.

God likened Israel herself to a barren woman who would bear many spiritual children. (That's encouragement for women like me, not, per se, for eunuchs/men.)

That said, I hope the commentary on this link won't be edited or changed:

https://www.gotquestions.org/eunuch-eunuchs.html

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Some argue that Jesus, in body, was strong enough to carry at least a crossbar of the cross while already deeply wounded, that He had physical strength enough for Roman soldiers to have confidence that He could carry the cross; and that He had physical strength enough to pull Peter out of the sea (likely very near the rocky shoreline).

Some argue that Jesus is "king of the world!" Some say His strength and sovereignty as a man is why even Muslim brothers and sisters begin to hearken to Him.

Some argue that God pattered Himself, bodily, after Adam, who failed morally but who was appointed to be a father (Romans 5:14), and that, therefore, our Savior had seed that just wasn't meant to physically bear — proving His sovereignty over the seed. ...

But the Holy Spirit whispers a simpler, more quiet, and more heartbreaking truth to me:

Psalm 51:17, Isaiah 57:15, Psalm 51:1-4, James 4:5-10, Isaiah 53:2-3

There's no pride in Christ. And our heavenly Father is Father purely in the spiritual.

"For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ ... ." (2 Corinthians 10:3-5)

"Peter replied, 'Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.'" (Luke 18:27)

"This is what the LORD says to Zerubbabel: 'It is not by force nor by strength, but by my Spirit, says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.'" (Zechariah 4:6, NLT)

"But Jesus said, 'What is impossible with man is possible with God.'" (Luke 18:27)

"And a little child shall lead them." (Isaiah 11:6)

What a blessing to have found info online about a residential school that helps raise up a child into adulthood. The school's residential community is called Yemin Orde Village. It's hope for Israel, and, hopefully, the whole world!

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What did Jesus really look like in the flesh? What frame of body did God choose to commune with as an only Son appointed to die for us? Well, the only thing we know for sure is that He manifested Himself as a Hebrew man who wasn't very appealing to look at.

Contrary to our concept of a Savior who is European and king of the world, our true King of kings wasn't likely to be voted most popular in school! Scripture says God put Himself in a unattractive frame.

Any artists' idea about how He appeared to us is only an idea.