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To: daniel1212; reaganaut; roamer_1; Springfield Reformer

My only point is that there is nothing wrong, evil or even distracting about Jesus being married or even having children. The Bible is silent on the matter and it would be unusual for any Jew to be unmarried, let alone a rabbi.

Asceticism isn’t practiced by Jesus. Nor is He a hermit. Quite the contrary, Jesus is fully engaged in life. The example of the Therapeutae is especially instructive as they were hermits, something Jesus’ Gospel utterly rejects. His disciples are to be fully in the world as he was, just not of it.

Jeremiah is explicitly told not to marry or have children. No such record exists for Christ.

Moses is explicitly married and has children. Jethro gave him his oldest daughter Zipporah for a wife. Zipporah bore Moses two children. The first one he called Gershom (”a stranger there”) in commemoration of the fact that he was a stranger and exile in the land of Midian, and the second he called Eliezer, “G-d is my helper,” in gratitude for G-d’s protection. Jethro at least is with Moses and even gives him advice on administration and delegation in Ex.18.

The rest is weak surmise and a bunch of “maybe” and “perhaps”. Not being married is deviant behavior and given all they accused him of why not one more deviant behavior?


184 posted on 09/14/2014 7:42:43 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: 1010RD; Elsie; Tennessee Nana; Colofornian
My only point is that there is nothing wrong, evil or even distracting about Jesus being married or even having children.

No it is not. Your point is that the primary subject of the Bible could have an invisible wife therein, a most conspicuous absence despite th Holy Spirit of Christ providing 4 gospels revealing different sides of Christ, and a myriad of circumstances and details, including who His most closest disciples were, and that the one who felt most beloved was not a women, and how He provided for the care for His mother, but not for a wife, all of which overall makes this cloaking hypothesis simply untenable.

This impugns the Holy Spirit, and you might as well argue God the Father has a wife as well, or many. But that is just what this absurdity goes hand and and with.

216 posted on 09/15/2014 3:18:50 AM PDT by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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