Therefore:
Lutheran Ping!
Be rooted in Christ!
Posted on 09/22/2012 12:41:56 PM PDT by rhema
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2934782/posts
Of course Jesus was married! And just what is the problem with that? Adam and Eve were married. Why not Christ? In Jesus’ day, one could not be addressed as Rabbi or Rabboni unless he was married.
This has been posted before - I don’t care if Jesus was married or not - He is still the Savior. He lived as others in His time, and getting married is not a sin, it is ordained by God, so why not marry? Again, doesn’t matter.
Thanks Pope Luke! You have spoken, so it is. BTW, could you make sure there’s no rain tomorrow? I gotta be in the garden.
Not so much.
The Gnostics were extremely varied, but one of the few things most of them had in common was a belief that the physical world of matter was utterly corrupt and that to be holy one must withdraw from this world as much as possible.
This meant, at least for the leaders, celibacy and asceticism.
This is not, to put it mildly, a popular POV in the modern western world.
interesting that just bits and pieces and no full context. I guess if I found a papyrus that had say ..”He went out and hung himself.... Go and do likewise” then I could advocate for suicide.
stupid agenda driven ‘scholars’
Therefore:
Lutheran Ping!
Be rooted in Christ!
Therefore
Orthodox Ping!
O heavenly King, O Comforter, the Spirit of Truth
who are in all places and fillest all things:
Treasury of good things and Giver of life:
Come and dwell in us and cleanse us from every stain,
and save our souls, O good One.
We should ignore both Christian and non-Christian contemporaneous accounts of Jesus’ life, and accept a Harvard professor’s interpretation of a scrap of paper written 400 years after He walked the earth.
Mmmmkay.
If I learned anything from the Dan Brown books, it’s that too many people will believe anything.
>>Professor King, along with Princeton’s Elaine Pagels<<
Typical angry lesbians from the Ivy League whose adgenda coincides with the progressive/liberal media? Who would’a thunk it?
Grrr!
Øbama voters...
“Of course Jesus was married! And just what is the problem with that? Adam and Eve were married. Why not Christ? In Jesus’ day, one could not be addressed as Rabbi or Rabboni unless he was married.”
First of all, Jesus rebuked the practice of calling anyone Rabbi, which is the equivalent of saying ‘Great Teacher’ or “Infallible Teacher”.
Mat 23:8 But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren.
Second of all, the idea of Christ actually marrying and having children is found nowhere in scripture. This is a 4th centry fragmentary text that has, essentially, no meaning. It’s also an offensive idea, since it basically is like saying that God Incarnate would marry a woman, become One with her in the sight of the law, and then promptly get crucified and leaving her without any support. It’s obvious from the Gospels that Christ was a man always on the move, living day to day on prayer, essentially living, with His human nature, the perfect God-dependent existence. If He had a wife, He would be home all the time and working to support the family, living the perfect married man’s life which puts his wife on an equal measure with himself.
There is nothing in the new testament to indicate at all the Jesus ever married. This surely would have been mentioned had it been true. One little scap of papyrus supposedly indicating to the contrary, in unknown context, written 400 years after His death pretty much is meaningless.
Besides, there could be missing words that put it into context such as “take” and “please.”
Many (not all) Gnostics viewed the physical world of matter as evil in itself. Therefore they viewed reproduction, which traps more spirit beings within matter, as inherently evil too.
Since women do the reproducing, they generally had a less positive view of women than the Church did.
Dan Brown and his ilk just project the beliefs of a 21st century idiot back into the Roman Empire and claim the Gnostics believe as they do.
They didn’t.
The Brownians actually have no sense of history. Their preferred belief system actually existed in 18th and 19th century Russia among (some of) the Khlysti. One of their beliefs was that to be forgiven your sins, you first have to accumulate some. Rituals to ensure lots of sinning were involved.
Read her bio, and you’ll get some idea what her “research” is worth.
http://www.hds.harvard.edu/people/faculty/karen-l-king
Probably because I didn't post one. Pay attention.
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Just the link, hg, just the link.
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