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To: 1010RD; daniel1212; Burkean; roamer_1; redleghunter; Springfield Reformer
Jesus wasn’t an Essene. Furthermore, his mission didn’t separate him from common, general human life, but engaged it. You may believe as you like, but there’s nothing wrong with Jesus Christ being married. In many ways it affirms marriage and contrasts it with secular marriage which the state controls.

If the sole reason for Jesus' incarnation was to just be a good example to others, you might have a point. But, Jesus came to earth as a man to be the once-for-all sacrifice for sin. He knew why He came, how long He had and when He would die because He is Almighty God. Getting married and having a family would have circumvented that purpose and would have been completely irresponsible leaving a wife and children destitute. No, Jesus was NOT married and had He been, there wouldn't be any reason for omitting the record of it in Scripture. A good place would have been Paul's letter to the Corinthians when he said:

Do we not have a right to take along a believing wife, even as the rest of the apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas? (II Cor. 9:5)

106 posted on 09/13/2014 1:55:48 PM PDT by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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To: boatbums

//If the sole reason for Jesus’ incarnation was to just be a good example to others, you might have a point.//

And that is the core of LDS Christology.


126 posted on 09/13/2014 3:56:33 PM PDT by reaganaut (Ex-Mormon, now Christian. "I once was lost but now am found, was blind but now I see")
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