[af_vet_rr]

I mean I'm no fan of this movie, but the attack on this specific movie compared to all the other garbage that is not attacked is getting ridiculous.

Ironically enough, the people who are most upset about it, are the people who act like they are most secure in their faith.

We saw the movie this past weekend with several friends, two of whom are Jewish, and two who were Catholic. What followed was an interesting conversation.

One of our Catholic friends brought up the marriage issue. One of our Jewish friends asked her why she would have a problem with Jesus being married - would it cause her to stop believing in God or to immediately change her life?

That caught her off guard, and he went on to explain that because Jesus was Jewish and considered a Rabbi (and even addressed as a Rabbi, I believe Peter and others did), that it would have almost went without saying that he was married. He mentioned that Jesus spoke of how important marriage was, that Jewish law of that time would have practically required him as a Rabbi to be married (some considered Jewish men of a certain age who weren't married, to be always thinking of sin), and that Mary Magdalene had to have been married to Jesus or one of his followers, because unmarried Jewish women of that time would not have traveled as she did.

It was very interesting, and he made a good point - that even if Jesus was married, it should change nothing - after all, he was raised by a man and woman, he lived among men, he did not really start teaching until after he would have been married, and that he followed all other customs befitting a Jewish male of that time.

Obviously our views diverge over the issue of whether he was the Son of God, but he pointed out that God did promise David that David's line would continue forever, and Jesus was descended from David through Mary, and he pointed out that the Gospels didn't explicitly state that he wasn't married, and that those writing the Gospels would not necessarily state the obvious.

Everything he mentioned, he said, was based on Jewish history and tradition and beliefs, and not some fake documents found in France in the 1800s or taken from some fictional novel.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

Might I point out that if you believe Jesus was the Son of God then his children would also be God's direct offspring. That means they would be born without a sin nature. The story doesn't point that out because it first discredits the claim of Christ's own divinity. If you want to accept the one idea without the other, you should consider what that means.