Posted on 04/10/2014 8:26:11 PM PDT by NYer
Just proof that Dan Brown’s ancestor was also a fiction writer. :)
Well, to be more accurate, He's engaged; the marriage supper hasn't happened yet, but it will.
Jesus was married to Peter, no doubt.
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Big difference, Dude. As the only sinless man to have ever walked the earth, Jesus was not subject to the lusts and temptations of mankind. He came to be a living witness to God, to fulfill the law, and to die for all sins.
Were he to have married and had children then this would have been the life of an ordinary man, not God in flesh. And our faith would be a lie.
Incidentally, you might recall that the "Jesus married" notion is exactly the hidden secret revealed at the end of Dan Brown's bestseller, "The DaVinci Code."
What difference, at this point, does it make? There are 1+ billion of his followers, and do we really care if he was married or not? Did he have kids too? If so, there is some real royal blood flowing through the veins of earth’s population.
I thought he was gay - it gets so confusing....
Only jokes could be this ancient;
And Jesus said, "Take my wife..."
Thanks. But I’m not quite sure. There is absolutely no sin in being married and having children. Indeed, it’s part of the divine plan for us. And it’s one if the very first commandments to be fruitful and multiply. Many would argue that there is a sin of not obeying the above, and both the Church and Judaism teach the centrality and sacred nature of marriage and family life. . And at the very least, since Jesus came as a human, his being married would have served as a good example for us. I’m listening and not arguing just trying to understand better is all. Thanks.
You are right. Thanks for the clarification.
The book of Thomas, the book of Mary, and other gnostics were old too. The koran is old too.
And I don’t have a bit of use for any of them.
Had a nice young Jewish man of that time NOT been married, it would have been unusual enough to be noteworthy.
Proves? No. I would say, strongly suggests.
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None whatsoever.
So ... fake but accurate, part deux?
Harvard Divinity Professor. Why does Harvard need a professor of candy?
Heretical beliefs have been rejected since the very beginning of Christianity. Only a modern "scholar" could be confused into thinking that heresy has some special significance by dint of age.
Unless...
Ordinary men and women are simply the embodiment of God, as Jesus was, and he is more the Great Example than the Great Exception.
He came to be a living witness to God, to fulfill the law
And no other human being ever could do that? Are we not witnesses to God every moment?
If God is Omnipotent, then is God not Infinite? Otherwise, there would necessarily be a limit on God's power.
Now if God is Infinite, then mustn't God be boundless? So how could anyone or anything be "not of God" or outside that which is Infinite? And how could there be anywhere God is not, including inside you and me?
Does that not make us "the image and likeness of God" in a very literal sense?
Was Saul of Tarsus married?
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