[Cvengr]

Except the Bridegroom hasn’t yet fetched the Bride. Only the Father knows the time.

[Ann Archy]

The Church has always been referred to as “The Bride of Christ”.

[boycott]

The gnostics — Book of Thomas, Book of Mary, Book of Judas, etc., are also centuries old too. Same for the Quran. — That doesn’t mean I believe any of them.

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There are some very logical reasons the gnostics aren’t part of our Bible. This new centuries old find would fall into the same category.

[SampleMan]

According to academia, the entire Bible is mythology, but find an unsubstantiated scrap of text dealing with the Bible and it is solid fact.

[dangerdoc]

Within 60 years of Christ’s crucifixion and resurrection, false gospels were being spread. Early manuscripts with false doctrine, proves the writings of Paul valid, he warned the early Church about such.

That being said, taking a wife is not a sin.

[Salvation]

In other words, Jesus, the God of Israel, has a wife. She is just not the kind of wife we might expect. Her identity becomes clear only once we understand who Jesus of Nazareth was and is. Only then do we see that he married the Church, the people of God.

Amen!

[editor-surveyor]

Every now and then one of these nut cases has to go ‘public.’

Sad that National Review has descended so far as to give such wackos a soapbox.
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[narses]

Credo in Deum Patrem omnipotentem;
Creatorem caeli et terrae.

Et in Jesum Christum,
Filium eius unicum, Dominum nostrum;
qui conceptus est
de Spiritu Sancto,
natus ex Maria virgine;
passus sub Pontio Pilato,
crucifixus, mortuus, et sepultus;
descendit ad inferos;
tertia die resurrexit a mortuis;
ascendit ad caelos;
sedet ad dexteram Dei Patris omnipotentis;
inde venturus est
iudicare vivos et mortuos.

Credo in Spiritum Sanctum;
sanctam ecclesiam catholicam;
sanctorum communionem;
remissionem peccatorum;
carnis resurrectionem;
vitam aeternam. Amen.

In English:

I believe in God, the Father almighty,
creator of heaven and earth.

I believe in Jesus Christ,
his only Son, our Lord.
He was conceived
by the power of the Holy Spirit,
and born of the Virgin Mary,
He suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died, and was buried;
He descended into hell.
On the third day he rose again;
he ascended into heaven,
he is seated at the right hand of the Father,
he will come again
to judge the living and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Spirit,
the holy Catholic church,
the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,
and the life everlasting. Amen

[annalex]

Also see The Gospel of Jesus’ Wife: How a fake Gospel-Fragment was composed.

I wonder if the evidence of the fragment being a composition mechanically and not very grammatically bringing different sources together to create a composite meaning, -- was addressed by the recent evaluation.

[dsc]

“Or to say it another way, God’s purpose throughout history was to marry his people...It’s evident in the erotic poetry of the Old Testament Song of Songs.”

Gee, Father, do you think you could *get* more homoerotic?

[Elsie]

Did GOD really say...?

Nothing has changed.

[Elsie]

We don’t need an centuries-old fragment to reveal Jesus’ wife, for we can meet her today wherever the Church resides.

Agrred...

Almost.

.. wherever the C church resides.

[Hoodat]

On this slip of papyrus, Jesus is quoted as saying “my wife”

So someone is claiming to have an actual manuscript written in Jesus' hand?