Mary Magdelen, prostitute, deciple, mother of Jesus's child. I'd Like answer where the Bible is NOT the sourc

Answer 1

1. Mary Magdelen was not a prostitute.

2. Jesus had no children by any female.

The best way to satisfy yourself is to do your own research. With the internet you should not find that very difficult.

Answer 2

Prostitue - A claim made by Pope Gregory in the early 600s. the bible does not reference this.

Deciple - Yes. Not all of the deciples of Jesus were men. There were several women too (I think the total number of followers was 17). Mary has her own gospel as well.

Wife - Perhaps. The gnostic gospels (and even the bible) IMPLY the POSSIBILITY that her and Jesus had a relationship. The evidence is weak though.
- Rabbi's were supposed to be married. An unmarried rabbi was considered a curse
- The word "companion" could also mean, "wife" in Hebrew
- Jesus would spend time with Mary alone...this was considered scandalous back then
- The gospel of Phillip? says that Jesus would kiss her (but we are unable to read where. It could be on the forhead for all we know)
- The gospel of Mary Magdaline? says that Peter was jealous of her, and that the disciples said, "If our Lord finds her worthy, so should you".

Mother - I doubt it. From what I know, the only evidence of this is an old French legend that after Jesus died, Mary fled to France...perhaps with a daughter named Sara. Sara, in Hebrew is Princess. And since "Jesus was king"...

Bottom line: We just don't have enough info to say much for sure.

Answer 3

The idea she was a prostitute came because people theorized her last name came from a town of about the same name known for its prostitutes. All the Bible really says about her is Jesus cast 7 devils out of her. She also seemed to have a lot of respect for Jesus and had contact with His disciples. Anything else is pure speculation.

What you don't seem to realize is it's the Bible that's the reliable source.

There are over 24,000 partial and complete manuscript copies of the New Testament, copies which are very ancient and available for inspection now. There are also some 86,000 quotations from the early church fathers and several thousand Lectionaries (church service books containing Scripture quotations used in the early centuries of Christianity). There are enough quotations from the early church fathers that even if we did not have a single copy of the Bible, scholars could still reconstruct all but 11 verses of the entire New Testament from material written 150 to 200 years from the time of Christ. So you can see it's impossible to change or corrupt the Bible. Even if we say that some manuscripts (MSS) have been changed, what about the thousands of other manuscripts? The manuscripts were not all in one language or in one place, so if they had changed some of the Arabic (75 MSS), there were the Latin (10,000 MSS), the Ethiopic (2,000 MSS), the Syriac Pashetta (350 MSS), the Bohairic (100 MSS), and the Persian (2 MSS). So you can see that this is quite unfeasible to do.

The gnostic gospels were recognized by basically all early Christian churches as nothing more then packs of lies by Pharisees who wanted to attack Christianity, the same ones who kept persecuting Paul and the other early Christians. Paul referred to such legends as "Jewish fables" and scoffed at their reliability. Unlike the massive amount of evidence for the reliability of the New Testament writings, the gnostic gospels depend on very few manuscripts, and the so-called "gospel of philip" depends solely on one incomplete manuscript. What is more, reliable scholars do not accept the gnostic gospels as being written by who they claimed to be. On the other hand it is well verified that the New Testament gospels were written by the apostles (indirectly with Mark and Luke, who wrote what Peter and Paul told them), credible eyewitnesses who died for their testimonies.

Many early historians and writers spoke of Jesus and the New Testament events like Tacitus, Josephus, Suetonius, Pliny the Younger, the talmudic writers, and numerous others. Sir William Ramsey, one of the greatest archeologists history has ever produced thought to disprove the New Testament. After studying the Gospel of Luke and the book of Acts (also by Luke) he concluded that Luke "is a historian of the first rank" and should be considered among the greatest historians in history. Numerous credible scholars have voiced their high opinions of the New Testament's credibility. To see more, read "More Than A Carpenter" by Josh McDowell. Archeology continues to debunk criticisms made against New Testament statements: http://Christiananswers.net/archeology

Answer 4

Sorry but yes the bible is the source for all answes,

No there is no mention that Mary Magdelen was a prostitute,

Yes she was a follower of Christ ( disciple is our word not theirs)

No Jesus did not have any children.

No there is no secret society that knows any informatoin

Answer 5

Mary M. was a disciple of Jesus whose doctrine was documented and, at some future time, started to gain momentum. This in a time when women were not to have such recognition and authority, so a powerful and influential priest hearld her as a "whore" in one of his sermons. That's where her being a prostitute came from. She was a woman of means who had been possessed by evil spirits when the Lord cast them out of her. The nature of whatever sins she committed were not documented for us to know that any of them applied to her sexually-related activities. Also, Jesus came to be a sacrafice and he fulfilled that purpose. He had to be pure, which means no sex and no joining of anyone to him in marriage. The "Di Vinci Code" is fiction, is announced to be fiction by the person who wrote it and, thus, we should also accept the same.

Answer 6

You didn't pose a question so I cannot answer.

You've got your Marys mixed up.
Mary Magdelene was not the mother of Jesus.

Answer 7

I'd like to find proof (where a fictional work, especially "The DaVinci Code", is NOT the source) where it says Mary Magdalene did all those things. When someone can give me that then I will answer that question.

Answer 8

You are entirely out of luck because no historical document other than the bible tells anything about the life and times of Jesus or his disciples.

It appears to be either a myth, or a very well kept secret because no one knew about any of it until much later.

Answer 9

May I ask why you take things from the Bible and ask a person not to use the Bible as a source to tell about them? This simple does not make sense.


http://www.biblebelievers.com/SimpleSalvation.html

Answer 10

Look for the articles on Mary's Gospel.

I don't believe she was a prostitue. I do believe she mothered a child of Jesus. He was, after all, human.