Note how quickly academia will claim such items to be proof, while they simultaneously reject the truth of the entire Bible.
Oh this again...
It rears its head every now and then.
Sometimes you hear it asked, "What difference does it make if Jesus were married or not?" There's a lot of things you can say to that, but it boils down to truth. There is no evidence, biblical or otherwise telling us Jesus was married--an important detail of his life if it was so.
Pre-nup????
The early church had many groups trying to hijack what Christianity was and meant. Several of these groups were fascinated with redefining who and what Jesus was to fit into their belief system they were developing. Most of these groups were the people that the New Testament was warning the early first century church to beware of their teachings and in some cases were kicked out of the church by the apostles.
So in modern times, when they dig up one of the writings of one of these groups it immediately trumps the gospels and New Testament because it satisfies the current desire to redefine Christianity and Jesus by the secular left. They always fail to mention that these new findings come from the opposition camp of early Christianity and usually spin it like it was lost information that the guys in the first century just were not aware of and did not publish in the Bible.
Reporters should not be expected to be epigraphers, but they should be expected to be proficient in 4th grade math.
They dutifully reported the importance he felt women were in his ministry. They just thought that was an error. When they were reporting on Jesus' life, therefore, it stands to reason they would omit his wife, just air brush her from the picture. They must have been right, too, because they all did it. Since they represent 100% of the evangelists of The Good News, it's a settled view.
What the heck, the synoptic gospels were written so soon after Jesus' death that those evangelists would know as first hand eye witnesses that Mrs. Christ had to be expunged if Jesus' life was to have the proper impact. And God knows Jesus certainly would be clueless on impacts and invitations and vocations.
John came along so far down the road that he was probably senile when he wrote his. Nevertheless, some of his writings have convinced me that Jesus thought there was hope for salvation for even such as me i.e. John wrote his for me, personally.
Maybe we can get The Good Book fixed in the next edition.
Before anyone gets too worked up over this, does anyone realize how many people were named Jesus back then? Or even today for that matter.
I can honestly type: “A few years ago I was surprise to run into Jesus and his wife at the folk life festival.”
Of course when we went to high school his name was pronounced “hey-sus” but written out you really can’t tell the difference.
There are many forgeries from antiquity. Also, some gnostic groups taught Jesus was married and Mormonism still teaches Jesus was probably married and a polygamist.
and..... the Holy Grail, the vessel containing the blood of Christ, is the son of Mary aka Mary Magdalene, that was in the south of France where she fled after the crucifixion
Somebody digs up scrap papyrus from 1500 years ago or thereabouts that has “Jesus” and “wife” on it, and they go, non-ironically, “Jesus had a wife? Sounds legit.”
We note that the Bible has four accounts of Jesus’ life, and 23 other letters and books, all attested to have existed back to the first century or very shortly thereafter, none, and I mean none, of which mention Jesus having a wife, and they go all Jeff Lebowski on us: Yeah, well, you know, thats just, like, your opinion, man.
2000 years from now, they are going to claim, “Deep Throat “ is the Clinton sex tape just because they are from the same time frame.