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To: Notforprophet
So I've answered your question - be fair, and answer mine. Have you read the book, Holy Blood, Holy Grail or not? Thus far you've refused to answer that very basic question. ~ Notforprophet Woody.
147 posted on 01/06/2003 7:56:00 PM PST by CCWoody
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Holy Blood, Holy Grail ~ The book's central hypothesis - that Jesus survived the Crucifixion and together with Mary Magdalene founded a bloodline that later became the Merovingians in France (protected by the Knights Templar and later by the Freemasons) amounts to a stunning amount of blasphemy. Is there anybody here who denies that this is the books central hypothesis?
150 posted on 01/06/2003 8:02:43 PM PST by CCWoody
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To: CCWoody; Notforprophet
I have not answered because it is not relevant to the discussion. I have kept my discussion to 3 specific statements, which also happened to be attributed to the book. To claim that Christ married Mary Magdalene and fathered children by her is blasphemous. To claim that Christs death and resurrection is open to intrepretation is also blasphemous.

Okay. I'm putting this in very short words for you.

The book DOES NOT CLAIM ANY OF THAT. As a matter of fact, IT CLAIMS NOTHING.

NOTHING.

What part of that do you not understand?

I seriously cannot make it any simpler than that.
152 posted on 01/06/2003 8:03:09 PM PST by Xenalyte
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To: CCWoody
Since you haven't read the book, you're hardly qualified to comment on it, IMHO. But let me take issue with one of your assertions:

To claim that Christ married Mary Magdalene and fathered children by her is blasphemous.

I disagree with your position that Christ's alleged marriage to Mary Magdalene is blasphemous. First of all, Jesus is called rabbi quite often in the Gospels, and it is commonly known that in Jewish tradition only married men can become rabbis.

Secondly, at the wedding feast in Cana, the servants go first to Jesus' mother to complain about the wine running out, and then Mary goes to Jesus to tell him about the no wine situation. In Jewish tradition, the groom is the master of the wedding feast, and the mother of the groom is traditionally tasked with managing the feast itself. So it can be inferred, without fear of blasphemy, that Jesus may in fact have been the groom at that infamous wedding where He turned the water into wine.

Thirdly, as Jesus approaches the village where Lazarus lived with his sister, Mary Magdalene, He is told "Lord, if you had been here sooner your brother would not be dead." Why do you suppose Lazarus is referred to as Christs "Brother"? Do you suppose the term was used in the modern sense, or could it have been a literal reference?

Finally, in no way is it blasphemous to postulate that Jesus may have been married and that He may even have fathered children. The Bible is clear that the institution of marriage holds a special blessing in God's eyes, and there is no reason to think that any children of such blessed union would be anything other than average, regular human children. Jesus was the Son of God, that doesn't mean that His offspring enjoyed the same exalted deity. Moreover, how would it detract from Jesus' holiness? If marriage is a sacrament, blessed by God, how is it blashphemy to suppose that His Son might have been married and experienced that blessing while living as a mortal man among us?

Woody, you seem like a good enough sort. But don't rush to label someone or some book blasphemous, if you haven't even bothered to read it.

169 posted on 01/06/2003 8:33:02 PM PST by Notforprophet
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