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.
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the tagline:
“A hotly contested, supposedly ancient manuscript suggests Christ was married. But believing its origin story—a real-life Da Vinci Code, involving a Harvard professor, a onetime Florida pornographer, and an escape from East Germany—requires a big leap of faith.”
Berate as you wish, but the statement that was made is at a minimum, open minded.
I read the article, the entire article, when it came out.
Thanks for the post. Seems to say it all.
The Only Begotten Son did not take this flesh journey to live a flesh life. His purpose is spelled out in Hebrews 2:14.
Berate? Yeah that’s it. Lol.
It’s called laughing at someone for being ludicrous.
I believe these stories are no better than the stories of Yeshua’s “virgin birth” (irrelevant to the divinity of Christ), and “Mohammed Was Carried Away to Heaven” at the plateau at which the last Hebrew temple stood.
Those stories were told as a means to secure followers who NEED “miracles” in order to be followers (which Yeshua warned the apostles of).
The “Jesus Was Married” stories similarly seek to use the fantastic “mystery” claims they make to lure away those of some faith.
Christians need to deny them any relevance to their faith, and KNOW that all questions that NEED answering will be given when and how G-d deems YOU should know them. Do not let such questions divert you from your faith.
Here is a good lesson about miracles.
http://www.avpc.org/files/4814/6633/2342/06192016.pdf
That same lesson should be applied to “mysteries”. Your true faith does not require you to seek answers to them when G-d has not already given them to you, and if G-d has given them to you, then treasure them as gifts received not as gifts you can convince anyone else of. They too will come to “know” when G-d chooses, for them.
I hadn’t seen the illustration.
The wife - I couldn’t put my finger on the celeb it is based on.
Then figured it out - Amanda Bynes.
That statement never challenged your belief system, and yet you find it necessary to berate it. Sadly, that is not laughable. There is no room for healing or divine understanding in locked-in belief systems.
Good tagline.
“That statement never challenged your belief system, and yet you find it necessary to berate it. Sadly, that is not laughable. There is no room for healing or divine understanding in locked-in belief systems.”
Stop it. You’re killing me!
Christ indeed does have a bride. The Church He sacrificed Himself for. All creation is anxiously awaiting the marriage feast.
Best post of the thread.
More fake news from the lying and ungodly left wing mediots!
Freepers, please do not click this vile site.
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.
Your post is awesome.
#fakewife
What makes Jesus Gods only “begotten” son, when The Bible clearly mentions SONS of God in other places.
What does “begotten” mean?
Actually, the writers of the Gospel believed that their fate in eternity depended upon their being accurate. If they made stuff up -- even to secure followers -- they would be damned.
That's a pretty good incentive NOT to do as you suggested they did.
It would also be oddness for Him to say He was the Son of God, and actually back it up.
He didnt come here to get married. Besides He actually did go to Hell - triumphantly - so He got a taste of marriage right there.
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