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The Inside Story of a Controversial New Text About Jesus
(Married!)
Smithsonian Magazine ^
| 9-18-2012
| Ariel Sabar
Posted on 09/19/2012 6:49:40 PM PDT by Renfield
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To: righttackle44
>> Liberal theologians would like nothing better than to lower the Lord Jesus Christ to the level of human being.
Yeah, that, and to remake Almighty God in *their* image.
Fool’s errands. Literally.
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posted on
09/19/2012 8:21:33 PM PDT
by
Nervous Tick
("You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.")
To: Renfield
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posted on
09/19/2012 8:27:40 PM PDT
by
griswold3
(Big Government does not tolerate rivals.)
To: GJones2
There is always a distinction in who does the talking. I am NOT saying you specifically, but in general people read over what was Written down ignoring who is doing the speaking. There seems to be little distinction from God or Christ speaking as opposed to when flesh beings speak.
One example I like to use, comes from Genesis when Adam was asked what he had done. Adam responded to the Creator, ‘that woman’ you gave me made me do it. Of course I am paraphrasing, but it has shocked me the number of people who think that was God speaking blaming the woman for Adam's disobedience.
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posted on
09/19/2012 8:35:16 PM PDT
by
Just mythoughts
(Please help Todd Akin defeat Claire and the GOP-e send money!!!!!)
To: GJones2
Take my wife.........please!........
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posted on
09/19/2012 8:35:46 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Anyone who thinks wisdom comes with age is either too young or too stupid to know the difference....)
To: Nervous Tick; Morgana
It seems like there is annual attempt to make Jesus just another person, doesn’t there?
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posted on
09/19/2012 8:38:31 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
To: cport
One correction: Indeed, Christ was is married to the church.
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posted on
09/19/2012 8:40:29 PM PDT
by
pgyanke
(Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
To: GeronL
*yawn* maybe we should riot at someone’s embassy.
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posted on
09/19/2012 8:42:26 PM PDT
by
Morgana
(Time to play cowboys and muslims.)
To: Morgana
lemonade and lawn chairs.
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posted on
09/19/2012 8:46:02 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
To: GeronL
>> It seems like there is annual attempt to make Jesus just another person, doesnt there?
Yeah, and it’s been going on for, oh, a little over two thousand years now.
(without success, of course, because He IS Who He IS!)
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posted on
09/19/2012 8:48:41 PM PDT
by
Nervous Tick
("You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.")
To: Renfield
I find it scientifically hard to accept a narrative based on one text that no one knows who wrote and when. The Gnostic gospels say different things as well
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posted on
09/19/2012 10:09:11 PM PDT
by
Cronos
(**Marriage is about commitment, cohabitation is about convenience.**)
To: Josephat
well, His being married would not in any way diminish Him
however, it would then lead to a new caste-system, like in Islam where descendants of the Prophet have a higher ranking in society..
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posted on
09/19/2012 10:11:47 PM PDT
by
Cronos
(**Marriage is about commitment, cohabitation is about convenience.**)
To: Josephat
well, His being married would not in any way diminish Him
however, it would then lead to a new caste-system, like in Islam where descendants of the Prophet have a higher ranking in society..
However, to a logical point of view, why is it not known? There were Christian churches in the east -- the Churches in Kerala etc. which were separated from orthodoxy for centuries
yet, they don't talk of any wife
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posted on
09/19/2012 10:13:11 PM PDT
by
Cronos
(**Marriage is about commitment, cohabitation is about convenience.**)
To: Cronos
especially when the people pushing it are known to be part of a group trying to discredit Christianity (Jesus Seminar)
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posted on
09/19/2012 10:13:38 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
To: Renfield
I can hear Jesus wife now ... “Well you think you’re always right...” LOL
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posted on
09/19/2012 11:14:27 PM PDT
by
MrDem
(Founder: Democrats for Cheney/Palin 2012)
To: GeronL
what is good is for us Christians to show the press the contrast between us and Moslems.
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posted on
09/20/2012 12:07:53 AM PDT
by
Cronos
(**Marriage is about commitment, cohabitation is about convenience.**)
To: Red Badger
well, if he was married, that just means he suffered a little more than we thought......... Too funny! ";^)
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posted on
09/20/2012 12:10:43 AM PDT
by
b9
To: impimp
Jesus was a rabbi, and under Jewish tradition, one cannot become a rabbi until he has been married.
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posted on
09/20/2012 4:55:22 AM PDT
by
Renfield
(Turning apples into venison since 1999!)
To: Jim Noble
That having been said, if Jesus had been married sometime between the age of 12 and when He began His public ministry around age 30, it would not be remarkable to me and it would not affect my faith in the least. When I went to Catholic high school, one of the topics we discussed in theology was a (now out of print) book "Was Jesus Married?". There were pro's and con's on the subject.
Among the pro's was that Jewish culture at the time had one of the duties of a father being to get his son a suitable wife in his teen years. There was also discussion on whether the wedding where Jesus turned water into wine was His own wedding.
It doesn't really matter one way or the other. He is Who He is, married or not.
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posted on
09/20/2012 5:03:16 AM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
(Charlie Daniels - Payback Time http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWwTJj_nosI)
To: Renfield
Rabbi means teacher. A good analogy is that to be a state approved “teacher” you need a certificate or license of some sort. But you and I both know there is more than 1 kind of teacher.
There is also no discussion of His “wife” in the bible.
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posted on
09/20/2012 5:14:39 AM PDT
by
impimp
To: impimp
There is also no discussion of His wife in the bible.There is no discussion of ANYTHING about Jesus' life between age 12 and age 30, so that doesn't mean too much, unless you think he was over with the Lamanites.
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posted on
09/20/2012 5:20:07 AM PDT
by
Jim Noble
(Diseases desperate grown are by desperate appliance relieved or not at all.)
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