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ABC asks (but in the wee hours): Was Jesus married? (Christianity takes another hit.)
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Posted on 11/01/2003 7:19:13 AM PST by Happy2BMe

ABC asks (but in the wee hours): Was Jesus married?



The Associated Press


    NEW YORK -- ABC News correspondent Elizabeth Vargas concedes her network is stepping into a theological minefield with its one-hour exploration of whether Jesus Christ had a wife.
    The ABC News special, "Jesus, Mary and DaVinci," is scheduled to air Tuesday, November 3rd, at 3:35 a.m. (The prime time slot on Monday is occupied by Monday Night Football.)
    "You can't talk about this subject without intriguing people or offending people," Vargas said earlier this week. "We're trying to do it as respectfully as we can."
    ABC screened the special for some reporters and religious leaders on Thursday. The program is based on the best-selling novel, The DaVinci Code, which claims to be partly grounded in historical fact.
    The book asserts that Mary Magdalene was Jesus' wife -- not a prostitute, as in some teachings -- and that she fled Jerusalem with his child after his crucifixion.
    The story was kept alive for centuries by a secret society that included the painter Leonardo DaVinci, who supposedly inserted clues about it in his art, the book claimed.
    The ABC special speaks to several theologians who either discount the story or assert that it is possible. Vargas said ABC found no proof that Jesus had a wife, but couldn't completely discount it, either.
    Vargas, who was raised a Roman Catholic, said her own parents said to her, "Oh, my goodness, what are you doing?" when they found out she was working on the story.
    It drew some immediate criticism, particularly from a representative of the Catholic League, who said ABC News relied too heavily on the opinion of the Rev. Richard McBrien of Notre Dame, who believes Mary Magdalene's importance has been historically understated and that it's possible she was his wife.
    "The facts themselves scream out that this is a crackpot theory," said Joseph DeFeo, policy analyst for the Catholic League.


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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
Outrageous claim?

I don't think so, and neither do many biblical scholars.

As a matter of fact Jesus having been married is a given to a good number of them.

Why Jesus possibly being married is a threat to some Christians is not easy to understand.

I feel that it made his sacrifice all that much greater, although there are questions about that as well, but I won't go there in this thread.

Have a nice night...
161 posted on 11/02/2003 5:36:05 PM PST by Ogmios (Since when is 66 senate votes for judicial confirmations constitutional?)
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To: Happy2BMe
This is far from a new enlightened theory. I read a book 30 years ago called the Jesus Conspiracy, or some such idiocy which embraced this theory and carried it to Mary (there seem to be 3 Marys) having fled to France and producing Jesus's son and the bloodline supposedly still flows in the Rothchilds, or some such rot.

There was Mary the Mother, Mary the Prostitute and the Magdeline. It is the Magdeline targeted as his wife. She seems to have traveled with him, so the idea goes and women did not travel with men they were not married to, and he was a Rabbi, which required him to take a wife. This book also proposed that the wedding where Christ made wine from water was his own to the Magdeline.

I shrugged and discounted the ego required to write such a missive, much less the missive itself. The Knights Templar were mixed in and supposedly the guardians of the secret in France. An entertaining read, but fiction no less.

Wingnuts'nbolts. (computer problems so I'm piggybacking)
162 posted on 11/02/2003 5:59:50 PM PST by Ben Bolt ( " The Spenders " ..)
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To: dorben
Good stuff - thanks!

I also heard (but have never read it) that Mary, the mother of Jesus was swept away to England via the trade ships out of the Middle East so as to protect her from Roman (and Jewish) persecution.

So many, many lies.

Matthew 24
4Jesus told them, "Don't let anyone mislead you. 5For many will come in my name, saying, `I am the Messiah.' They will lead many astray. 6And wars will break out near and far, but don't panic. Yes, these things must come, but the end won't follow immediately.

Luke 21
7"Teacher," they asked, "when will all this take place? And will there be any sign ahead of time?"
8He replied, "Don't let anyone mislead you. For many will come in my name, claiming to be the Messiah[1] and saying, `The time has come!' But don't believe them. 9And when you hear of wars and insurrections, don't panic. Yes, these things must come, but the end won't follow immediately."

Footnotes


  1. 21:8 Greek name, saying, `I am.'

163 posted on 11/02/2003 6:12:35 PM PST by Happy2BMe (Nurture terrorism in a neighborhood near you - donate to your local community mosque.)
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To: Ogmios
As a matter of fact Jesus having been married is a given to a good number of them.

And a good number of them don't believe that Jesus was God or that there is a God at all. The point is that they never have any evidence to back up this claim. If they have any then trot it on out. Let’s see it.

Why Jesus possibly being married is a threat to some Christians is not easy to understand.

A threat? No. Simply another lie that should be challanged. Goodness knows that there have been a lot of them about Him. But it is a very Greek notion that is not supported by the scriptures or by logic. It would be very odd, for example, for Him to have taken such tender care of His mother's future on the cross and then make no provision for a wife.

Even stranger would be His getting married knowing that His life would be so short and end so violently.

Sleep well.

164 posted on 11/02/2003 6:24:34 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades will seriously cramp his style)
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To: Happy2BMe
They're hoping to sneak this in under the CBS Reagan movie.
165 posted on 11/03/2003 8:26:25 AM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Ogmios
Jesus had children and married. Jesus who? Gonzalez? Where is the evidence that Jesus married & had children? He is going to be married. That's what the church is for. If he were married to a human he wouldn't be pure for the church.
166 posted on 11/03/2003 3:10:34 PM PST by madison10
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To: Ogmios
Jesus had children and married. Jesus who? Gonzalez? Where is the evidence that Jesus married & had children? He is going to be married. That's what the church is for. If he were married to a human he wouldn't be pure for the church.
167 posted on 11/03/2003 3:11:49 PM PST by madison10
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
Good reply, Harmless.

168 posted on 11/03/2003 7:37:47 PM PST by Sister_T (Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness ...)
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To: nightdriver
I fail to see what those prophecies have to do with marriage. Mind you, I don't think He was married, but is rather betrothed to the Church.
169 posted on 11/05/2003 2:03:36 PM PST by gitmo (Hypocrite: Someone who dare aspire to a higher standard than he is living.)
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To: gitmo
"I fail to see what those prophecies have to do with marriage."

What the prophesies say specifically, is that Jesus left no progeny.

Jesus told his disciples "..I have meat to eat that ye know not of." after they saw him talking to the woman at the well. He wasn't interested in taking a woman for a wife.

His "wife" is the church. You are right.

170 posted on 11/05/2003 2:49:54 PM PST by nightdriver
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171 posted on 12/21/2014 9:42:24 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/ _____________________ Celebrate the Polls, Ignore the Trolls)
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