Old Testament - eunuchs

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Are eunuchs banned from Heaven?

He whose testicles are crushed or whose male member is cut off shall not enter the assembly of the Lord.

No bastard shall enter the assembly of the Lord; even to the tenth generation none of his descendants shall enter the assembly of the Lord.

No Ammorite or Moabite shall enter the assembly of the Lord; even to the tenth generation none belonging to them shall enter the assembly of the Lord for ever. [Deut. 23:1-3 (RSV)]

Christian views

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Secular views

• The Relativity of Biblical Ethics - Joe Edward Barnhard, Biblical v. Secular Ethics: The Conflict

"[T]here is considerable moral and ethical relativism in theology and the Bible...

Whatever the circumstances prompting these prohibitions, it is noteworthy that fundamentalist and evangelical apologists find it necessary to call upon their own version of situation ethics in order to make it clear that not all moral injunctions in the Scriptures are moral absolutes. Evangelical scholar G. T. Manley, in The New Bible Commentary, tries to justify the morally inferior outlook found in Deuteronomy by noting that it belongs to "the Mosaic age, and [is] quite different from that of the later monarchy."