Beyond the completely lack of authority for this scrap as a source of anything, even had Jesus said, “My wife...” he could well have finished with “My wife is the church”, or “My wife is my father’s will.”
The scrap is worthless on the face of it. Then consider this could be anything from satire to miscommunication on the part of the person penning the text on the scrap.
If Christ had a wife, we would most CERTAINLY know it. He would not have hidden it and his followers would not have hidden it.
“Jesus Christ became man.”. I would think Christ was married, love and sex are as natural as food and water. I wish it could be proven, because the implication is huge. Among many things, it would make marriage that much more sacred between a man and a woman
I question jumping to conclusions with one small reference but I would have no issue if it was shown he was married. In fact I would like it. There is no reason to think he would not be married.
The false myth of a wife of Jesus is to validate the blood line for King and Queen (the real Illuminati). It is a trick of Satan.
Liberalism is a mental illness ... none more evident in the so-called Religious Studies departments at any secular university.
There’s no reason Jesus Christ couldn’t have taken a wife. It’s entirely possible that He did, since I see nothing in scripture which would preclude it...
There are many other academics who have propounded that Jesus was married, that Mary of Magdala was his wife, and that there are references in ancient documents to the effect that she was the head of the Christian group in Jerusalem after the crucifixion.
I don’t know why this would create a problem within the Christian community if it were true other than it would overturn some Church rules that were made up by men many years after the events.
Can’t be proven; can’t be disproven.
If it was proven, it wouldn’t bother me to learn that Jesus had a wife.
As a matter of fact, it would actually fit in with God’s plan that His Son would experience all that we experience, feel all that we feel, suffer all that we have suffered.
(All the men say, “and boy do we suffer!”)
(All the women elbow their man in the ribs OWW)
But the fact is, there are so many well preserved and complete manuscripts from that time that are total fabrications and legends and crazy stories about Jesus; many of them read like revamped Greek legends or the Arabian Nights.
This scrap of a story is just that...a scrap of a story. It smacks of tabloid journalism to so overblow it before the jury is in, and yes, the timing is a little suspect.
If it actually turned out to be something, I don’t think so many Christians would be offended. But good sense and scholarship seem to indicate that this more points to the popularity of Jesus in this era, leading to popular rumor and a market demand for supposed secret manuscripts during a time of fervor for religious discussion and rampant cultic activity, rather than the testimony of a witness of Jesus Christ Himself.
My view from the cheap seats...
"The Book of Jeremiah written circa 628 BC possibly refers to Asherah when it uses the title "Queen of Heaven" ...
"Scholars have claimed that Asherah was edited out of the Bible and that most Israelites worshiped multiple gods, including Asherah, before 586 B.C. ...
"The majority of biblical scholars the world over now accept that Asherah at one time was worshiped as the consort of Yahweh (the national god of Israel). ..."
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