[Ogmios]

You asked a question, but did not bother to answer mine,

Why would Jesus being married cause problems for the Christian faith?

Why is it such a big deal?

[SoothingDave]

Why would Jesus being married cause problems for the Christian faith?

Conceptually it does not.

For all practical purposes, however, it is simply something that is not true. If it were, it would have been part of the story passed down from generation to generation. It is not.

That said, to suggest the the Church and the Bible just failed to mention Jesus' wife is problematic. First, if He was indeed married and had a family, why was He out wandering around Judea? Did He abandon His wife and kids? That hardly seems appropriate.

And on a much more basic level, Jesus was the Incarnation of the Living God. He lived a life without sin. Exactly how cosmically unfair would it be to have Jesus as your father? What child could ever live up to such a role?

SD

[Gargantua]

As you know, the Christian faith is based upon the Bible. The Bible is clear about Jesus' life, and this TV show (and questions like yours), while provocative, are just more fulfillment of the prophecies that human scum would assail and mock God's Holy Word in the Bible.

God knows what is in your heart, and you will be accountable for it to Him. Best of luck.

;-/

[nightdriver]

"Why would Jesus being married cause problems for the Christian faith?"

It would be a humongous (that means big!) problem precisely because all the prophesies about Christ claim that he left no seed, no progeny.

The Biblical prophesies are the only authoritative revelation we have of Christ's existence, if some johnny-come-lately novel is considered to be more authoritative with a different story, all Christianity not only has a "problem," it collapses completely.

(Maybe that is the motivation behind the apocrophal stories, anyway.)

[Belial]

Why would Jesus being married cause problems for the Christian faith?

Simply, because Christ is regarded by Christians as perfection embodied, and sexuality, even in a married context, carries a stigma on some levels for most people. It is a pleasure, but perhaps one unworthy of a God.

At any rate, it's unlikely that Christ ever married. The Gospels were influenced by several oral traditions, and although it's true that the Church cherry-picked which Gospels would form the NT, I don't believe that something as fundamental as a prostitute wife could be written out.

There are vast amounts we don't know about Christ's life, but all the speculation with such a paucity of source material amounts to little more than mental mastication.