AS a Deist, I’m looking at this issue from a neutral position. I’m not clear on how it would matter or destroy the Christian faith if Jesus WAS married.
First of all, such a finding would end all the speculative theories by the gay community that Jesus was gay.
Second, it could give a religious imprimatur to traditional marriage.
Third, it would show the aspect of Jesus as a part of our common humanity.
Fourth, it could change the attitude of some religions such as Catholicism toward the marriage of priests. After all, this was a tradition started by later Christians, not as a commandment from Jesus.
Granted this would be a great change in the common tradition of the Christian sects, but a true religion should be able to overcome change with faith that the truth is more liberating and exciting than a mistake.
“First of all, such a finding would end all the speculative theories by the gay community that Jesus was gay.
Second, it could give a religious imprimatur to traditional marriage.
Third, it would show the aspect of Jesus as a part of our common humanity.
Fourth, it could change the attitude of some religions such as Catholicism toward the marriage of priests. After all, this was a tradition started by later Christians, not as a commandment from Jesus”
1. Plenty of homosexual men live double lives. Happily married and at the same time carrying on homosexual affairs. This is how AIDs was transmitted to women. Homosexual activists, if Jesus was proven to had been married, would still whisper that he was secretly homosexual because he ran around with men all the time.
2. The Bible is very specific about what constitues a marriage and the the purpose of marriage. A “married” Jesus would not change anything about the sacrament of marriage.
3. Jesus was fully human when he walked this earth. Whether single or married, he shared everything humans share in their day to say existence. Plenty of men never get married and not homosexual.
4. Catholic priests were married for the first thousand years of the Church. The requirement of priests not being married is not a doctrine of the church and could change.
And priests are married, they are married to the Church. But like I said, the Pope could change this with the stroke of a pen if he so liked.
There's a difference between neutral and simply uninformed. To claim that Christ was married would attack the credibility of the Apostles who wrote the New Testament and said nothing about any wife, and plainly declared that Christ is God (would God take on a wife?). Mind you, this document is from the 8th century, and so it has no baring on anything.