Short answer: Yes, of course you can.
But you would never know it from the reaction of Evangelical leaders during the “Da Vinci Code” craze, now some twenty years ago. Church goers were taught that Dan Brown’s proposition was a dangerous heresy and anyone who advocated it was a New Age conspirator trying to destroy Christianity.
All of their objections were answered in my disciplined study from 2004: Hierogamy & the Married Messiah. It is found on this website. The book cover can be found here: https://2046ad.org/hierogamy-book-cover/
Only if you believe in Augustine’s definition of Original Sin as sexual would you regard it as heretical. The idea of Jesus indulging in sex by this definition would be the same as indulging in a sinful nature. That is why “Christendom” has argued that Christ did not have a sexual nature.
But if you understand Original Sin to be a sinful self-will and the “inherited” sinful nature as one in which a person lacks the Divine presence in his consciousness, then your view of sin and salvation becomes something entirely different: “sin” is the lack of God-consciousness and “salvation” becomes the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.
As for Christ’s Atonement, we must remember that the Creeds teach He had two natures: one human and one Divine. He is our Savior as the Divine Logos, not as a mere man. His humanity – His sinless humanity – made Him a worthy vessel as the Savior of the world.
While sin can include the abuse of our sexuality, our reproductive powers, in themselves, are not evil. God declared them “very good” in the day of creation in Genesis 1. The biology of reproduction was created by God: “be fruitful and multiply.”
Consequently, our need for a Savior has nothing to do with our sexuality. And Christ’s sexuality did not compromise the efficacy of the Atonement. If Evangelical doctrine requires an atonement for the objective reality of sin, Christ’s Atonement is efficacious because of who He is as the Second Person of the Trinity. “The passion of Christ” refers to His sufferings upon the Cross at the moment of His sacrifice. It does not mean that He “suffered” by being human. Indeed, there was much in His life which could be considered joyous, including His sexual encounters. As He gave them up on the Cross, we encounter the witness of His self-sacrifice.
In the rejection of the “phallic” Christ, the Church has embraced a heresy of a different sort: Docetism and even Satanism. Docetism denies the true humanity of Christ while Satanism denies dominion to the righteous. In leaving our sexuality in the gutter of a “sin nature,” the principal tools of dominion – sex and reproduction – are given up to embrace asceticism as the path of righteousness.
It also creates a death culture because sex and reproduction are an affirmation of life, while their rejection is to embrace death. And we know that Satan would be pleased with nothing less than the breeding-out of existence the human race which he so greatly despises. By affirming a sexual Jesus, we embrace the calling of our humanity as God’s vicegerents upon the Earth.
— JWS, 11/2/25
