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To: Oztrich Boy
Why the use of the CE when EVERYONE knows the CE is based upon AD - Jesus Christ, True God and True Man.

Good Lord, am I reallly asking this of a guy named "oztrich?

113 posted on 11/01/2003 12:58:06 PM PST by Catholicguy (MT1618 Church of Peter remains pure and spotless from all leading into error, or heretical fraud)
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To: Catholicguy
It would have been highly bizarre for Jesus to not have been married. Not only at age 29 or so when he began his ministry, but by age 19.

It's kind of a joke now, with bar mitzvah's at 13, but it was serious back then. You started taking on adult responsibilities at age 13.

Rabbis were married men. Women were most often ignored. Jesus could very well have been married, and not to Mary Magdalene. Even though he was the messiah, his wife would not have been important. Mary, his mother was, because of the virgin birth, but the name of his wife, the disciples wives, were simply considered fluff basically. It would be like describing a sporting event's big play, then commenting about the color of the seat you were sitting at. Just not important enough to mention.

Jesus was flesh. I don't think it diminishes him in any way to have been married. It elevates him. If Jesus was not bound to the world in every way, it lessens the sacrifice.

I don't get those who believe that Jesus was basically a "saint" who was seperate from his flock. By being married, having human hungers, thirsts, desires, then being told to give it all up, and suffer on the cross, it is more powerful a sacrifice than being told that Jesus could do no wrong, was perfect, and basically wouldn't have anybody to miss back on earth.

If I was told that God made me, I was infallible, and I could hang out for 33 years, in exchange for spending a day on the cross, then I would go to Heaven and be all powerful again, forever, sure, that is suffering, but it's not a supreme sacrifice. Being human, fearful, able to feel pain, loss of seperation makes the act deeper. Having a human wife, who he could never again touch physically, not just sexually, but in a corporal state, for example, just holding hands, and being told to get up on the cross and leave it behind, that hurts.

117 posted on 11/01/2003 1:07:07 PM PST by dogbyte12
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