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He might have been married. Remember that the Bible as we know it was canonized (5th and 6th Century) by men who had little respect for women. They had already established that women were to have no place of importance in the Church and St. Paul – who never met The Christ and injected much of his own philosophy into the early Christian Church – went as far as to forbid priestly marriage. St. Paul also espoused the idea that any contact between the sexes was basically a bad idea:
But I would have you to be without solicitude. He that is without a wife is solicitous for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please God. But he that is with a wife, is solicitous for the things of the world, how he may please his wife: and he is divided. And the unmarried woman and the virgin thinketh on the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit. But she that is married thinketh on the things of this world how she may please her husband. And this I speak for your profit, not to cast a snare upon you, but for that which is decent and which may give you power to attend upon the Lord without impediment. (I Cor., vii, 7-8 and 32-35.)

It’s very possible that when the Christian Bible was finally canonized all references to the Christ being married would have been expunged.

85 posted on 11/03/2003 12:52:35 PM PST by R. Scott
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It’s very possible that when the Christian Bible was finally canonized all references to the Christ being married would have been expunged.

It's also very possible that when the Christian Bible was finally canonized all references to the Christ being a space alien would have been expunged.

89 posted on 11/03/2003 12:58:02 PM PST by Bohemund
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