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Especially if the film was bad.

Been waiting for the movie long before I knew there would be one :O)

Saw it last night - really good.

It may be that, since I was already familiar with all the "ideas" in the book long before Brown wrote it (He is being both credited and vilified for "his ideas" when they have been around for 2000 years - and there are many contemporary books in print today - NON-fiction - on these 'ideas' - with bibliographies - that no one seems to make a peep about. They are in much more depth, they are NON-fiction and they are fascinating. One that first caught Brown's attention is by a life long Catholic with an impressive background, who set out to disprovethe centuries old 'rumor" that MM was married. She has many more now in print on the subject and a web page - for the brave who dare to exercise their greatest gift from God - free will: "The Alabaster Jar" by Margaret Starbird, is a good start. Her web site - scroll down to her bio: - is

http://www.margaretstarbird.net/

Here's a stained glass window in a European church - Scotland, actually, where the Royal Blood line escaped to for protection - this window was around LOOONNG before there was a Dan Brown:

For more on the Jewish Law, at Jesus's time, regarding marriage, I recommend you read post # 209 by dread78645 ... and ponder possibility no. 2 of his post.

Does the Bible tell the truth? His/her post brings out Bible verses that support Jesus having been married much more plausible than the alternative.

Why the possibility that Jesus was married horrifies people so is a mystery to me.

I feel much more comforted that Jesus taught and showed us, by His example, how we can obtain joy and happiness - HERE, as well as on the other side, by following His teachings and nurturing the God-flame within us all...

He said we could do the things He had done - and more - by following His Way...that we, too, are heirs to the Kingdom...(and that that Kingdom is WITHIN us)as He.

But if he were not as we are, albeit far ahead in achieving the goal, then how are we ever to reach that goal?

The goal is still hard to reach, but at least we have the hope of reaching it...that to me, is a much more loving Lord, sent from the Father, as our Eldest Brother, to show us The Way.

... I recommend you read post # 209 by dread78645 ... and ponder possibility no. 2 of his post. ...

What I posted:

The possibilities are:
1. Jesus was married or at least betrothed (In biblical times, the distinction was when the husband took the wife into his home).
2. Luke made up the story in Luke 4:16-20
3. Jesus was in the first ever Jewish-Reformed synagogue.

I consider Luke to be the most straightforward of the Gospels. From the outset he states that his is a second hand account.
The reading of haftarah was based on what Luke was told. The "This is all fulfilled ..." might be by Jesus, but it's probably embellishment by Luke's witness or even Luke himself.

Just to make myself clear:
1. Jesus was married as befitting a proper Jewish man of his time.
2. Luke 4:16-20 recorded reading of haftarah based on what he was told.
3. Anyone who thinks there was a reformed synagogue in the first century shouldn't play with sharp objects.