Therefore:
Lutheran Ping!
Be rooted in Christ!
The Gospel of duplicate threads, when repetition meets failure to search:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2934782/posts
Of course Jesus was married! And just what is the problem with that? Adam and Eve were married. Why not Christ? In Jesus’ day, one could not be addressed as Rabbi or Rabboni unless he was married.
This has been posted before - I don’t care if Jesus was married or not - He is still the Savior. He lived as others in His time, and getting married is not a sin, it is ordained by God, so why not marry? Again, doesn’t matter.
Not so much.
The Gnostics were extremely varied, but one of the few things most of them had in common was a belief that the physical world of matter was utterly corrupt and that to be holy one must withdraw from this world as much as possible.
This meant, at least for the leaders, celibacy and asceticism.
This is not, to put it mildly, a popular POV in the modern western world.
interesting that just bits and pieces and no full context. I guess if I found a papyrus that had say ..”He went out and hung himself.... Go and do likewise” then I could advocate for suicide.
stupid agenda driven ‘scholars’
Therefore:
Lutheran Ping!
Be rooted in Christ!
There is nothing in the new testament to indicate at all the Jesus ever married. This surely would have been mentioned had it been true. One little scap of papyrus supposedly indicating to the contrary, in unknown context, written 400 years after His death pretty much is meaningless.
Besides, there could be missing words that put it into context such as “take” and “please.”
Gnosticism that attempted to distort and discredit Christianity (lied in other words) was very active during the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th century A.D..
I was always taught the the Bride of Christ was the Church.
The hilarity of this is that claiming a random 4th century manuscript, fragmentary or not, has inherent Gospel-level authority is like claiming something must be true because you read it on the Internet.
They had real good eyesight back then, huh? It can be read with a magnifying glass? How'd someone write it?
Yeah, ALL of the Apostles simply forgot to mention that minor detail/sarc off
About a year ago I subscribed to the Smithsonian magazine, and rather quickly became uneasy about its content and general tone.
...”How can I believe the story of Jesus when it was written decades after his death?”
...”Ooooh, look! A centuries-old scrap of paper that contradicts the Gospels—it must be true!!”
Can some artist here come up with a picture of activists putting a gun to Cathy’s head demanding he support them? That is what it seems like they want to do.
The evidence is overwhelming that the Gospels are contemporaneous accounts. There is absolutely nothing that connects the Gnostic gospels to anyone living during Jesus’ day. For that reason alone the Gnostic gospels should ignored.
It would be interesting to see what others have to say about this translation.
Certainly Jesus and the Apostles spoke of his “Bride” quite often.
Jesus WAS married - but not in the way this lady is claiming.