Posted on 07/02/2017 10:05:07 AM PDT by Oatka
On a humid afternoon this past November, I pulled off Interstate 75 into a stretch of Florida pine forest tangled with runaway vines. My GPS was homing in on the house of a man I thought might hold the master key to one of the strangest scholarly mysteries in recent decades: a 1,300-year-old scrap of papyrus that bore the phrase “Jesus said to them, My wife.” The fragment, written in the ancient language of Coptic, had set off shock waves when an eminent Harvard historian of early Christianity, Karen L. King, presented it in September 2012 at a conference in Rome.
(Excerpt) Read more at cdn.theatlantic.com ...
Yes. Unbelievable.
At least they got the title of the story right.
#FAKENEWS
messed up link
The link goes to a picture. Where is the article?
Then it must be true. LOL.
Tiny hands, palm trees, fake news...
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/07/the-unbelievable-tale-of-jesus-wife/485573/
Then scroll down.
Satanic bull shit.
It is,in fact a novel. Will take several hours to digest and understand. Thx for the post.
In ancient Israel, it was the norm for parents to arrange marriage for their children at a relatively young age. It would have been an oddness worthy of note for Jesus to have never been married.
Want to give a link that goes to more than just the picture
“It would have been an oddness worthy of note for Jesus to have never been married.”
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Odd indeed. Nothing else about His life was odd.
I thought articles like these came out at Easter time.
As other Freepers have said, this is almost comical:
4 canonical Gospels, written before AD 100 (I would say before AD 70), never challenged or questioned by contemporaries —— doubtful
Gnostic and similar texts, written hundreds of years later, never accepted by anyone but fringe groups —— obviously true
The stupid, it burns.
If Jesus had married, it would not have contradicted His status as fully God and fully man, and the Gospel writers would have recorded it faithfully.
What’s funny is you are serious and believe yourself to be knowledgeable and intelligent.
Lol.
I’m pretty sure it was one of the many odd things noted.
Did you read the article? What’s unbelievable about it?
And that oddity would have been mentioned adjectively over and over in the writings, but no.
In fact, historically, the 4 NT gospels are a ‘selected few’ from the overall, see Nag Hammadi library.
Interpreters focused only on the divinity of Jesus usually select celibacy as divine. However, “When two become one”, IMHO, suggests the opposite.
Jesus being divine does not preclude him from also being ‘man’, of the flesh. If not, temptation(s) as parables preach, would not have been difficult to overcome.
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