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To: hecht

Paul said his preference was that Christians remain single so that they could devote themselves to the issue at hand (spreading the gospel and serving the Lord Jesus). How much MORE focused would Christ, Himself, be about his mission? He did not come here to live a carnal life...he came to “seek and to save those who are lost.” He came to die, and He knew that.


8 posted on 09/20/2012 6:12:21 PM PDT by freepertoo
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To: freepertoo
Paul said his preference was that Christians remain single so that they could devote themselves to the issue at hand (spreading the gospel and serving the Lord Jesus). How much MORE focused would Christ, Himself, be about his mission? He did not come here to live a carnal life...he came to “seek and to save those who are lost.” He came to die, and He knew that.

True; however, it is not inconsistent with the thought that Jesus was indeed human. (And that is an important point in Christianity, that God became a man in order to save the race of man.)

So, in the long run... it's really irrelevant if he had a wife or not.

30 posted on 09/20/2012 6:36:53 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: freepertoo

He did not come here to live a carnal life...
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First, no one now knows if Christ was married or not.

Christ came to fulfill the law, one law was that a man marry. Jesus was called Rabbi. Although there are some examples today where a man might be an un-married rabbi but it would be rare, in the time of Christ ALL rabbis were married.

There have always been legends of Christ having children and them being carried off to southern France for their safety.

I would wonder why if Christ was married that from the cross He did not make an allowance for someone to take care of His wife and/or family, after all he did that for His mother and His mother had other sons and likely daughters to take care of her.

We don’t know and likely will never know, but, what difference does it make? With the exception of Paul the other Apostles had families.

Celibacy was not popular in The Church for nearly a thousand years


41 posted on 09/20/2012 7:38:20 PM PDT by JAKraig (Surely my religion is at least as good as yours)
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To: freepertoo; hecht

Read the Book of Jeremiah, it contains some information related to this.

“Then the word of the Lord came to me: “You must not marry and have sons or daughters in this place.”

Jer. 16:1,2


43 posted on 09/20/2012 8:01:39 PM PDT by thecodont
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