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To: Red Badger
Jesus came to live among us, be like us, experiencing the same joys and pains we do. Marriage and kids are a big part of the human experience. The family is the anchor of society. As a practicing Jew, it would have been common and even expected for a man His age to be married.

If it turns out He was married and even had kids, how would it be a negative on His ministry or Divinity? It would not shake my faith in the slightest.

27 posted on 09/18/2012 11:54:34 AM PDT by 5thGenTexan
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To: 5thGenTexan

Try Matt 19 and “eunuchs for the kingdom”

Marriage is not essential to full humanity. There’s even a Jewish tradition of voluntary celibacy for prophets (”schools of the prophets” in the OT). That Jesus was not married is not of no significance. He was married to the Ecclesia, his Bride. Ephesians 5.

Without some people living voluntary celibacy marriage is not fully understood. Without some people being married, voluntary celibacy is not fully understood. The two are interrelated.

If the universal Christian claim that Jesus was unmarried were simply overturned, you’d have 2000 years of Christian belief proved to have been false. If the Church got all that wrong all these years, based on a scrap of papyrus whose owner won’t even reveal where he acquired it, then what else did the Church get wrong all these years?

Your casual willingness to abandon 2000 years of belief is breathtaking.


38 posted on 09/18/2012 12:05:06 PM PDT by Houghton M.
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