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2006-08-15 20:05:21 · 8 answers · asked by lovely_remo_2006 1 in Arts & Humanities History

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Rupai is mistaken. There is NO historical evidence that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene. Dan Brown (writer of the DaVinci Code) says that the "Gnostic gospels" taught this. But he has no evidence for this.

In fact, the Gnostics were not at all the way Brown and his sources portray them. They believed, for instance, that the material world is EVIL and only the spiritual world is good. Jews and Christians believe something very different, and their hope is in the resurrection of the BODY. (Gnostics think the highest goal is to ESCAPE the body.) Notice that this also means Gnostics have a low opinion of marriage. So, once again, the idea that they would teach that Jesus and Mary were married contradicts what we know about them.

Sadly, a lot of Brown's statements are based on things that historians, art experts and others KNOW is simply not so (about DaVinci, about a secret organization Brown says goes back many centuries that was actually created in the 1950s! and so on.) He also makes a lot of silly mistakes interpreting the Bible-- such as thinking that things in the gospel of John are about Mary that the book itself makes clear is about one of the fishermen who followed Jesus, almost certainly John.

2006-08-16 15:49:47 · answer #1 · answered by bruhaha 7 · 0 0

No, Jesus was not married. That fact has not stopped various groups from claiming otherwise. The first religious group that we know of to insist Jesus was married was the Cathars. The Cathars were a Gnostic-inspired cult founded in Western Europe in the twelfth century. They believed that waging war, eating meat, taking communion, and, ironically, having sex were evil. They also believed that sin after baptism would permanently nullify salvation—many Cathars were baptized only on their deathbeds when the chance of a subsequent sin was lessened. These ideas are all reasonable derivations of Gnosticism, which teaches that only the spirit is good and all physical things are evil.

The Cathars believed Mary Magdalene was either the wife or concubine of Jesus. The Cathars believed Jesus was sinless, but they also believed sex was sin. They explained this puzzle by teaching Jesus must have had two natures—an evil physical nature and a pure spiritual nature. The entire claim, of course, is completely unbiblical. Jesus is fully God and fully man (John 1:14).

The Gnostic book The Gospel of Philip, written in the third century, describes Mary Magdelene as Jesus' "close friend" and mentions several kisses between the two. Considering the apocryphal nature of the book and the fact that kissing was a traditional Christian greeting, this tells us exactly nothing.

Some of the most recent claims of Jesus' marriage are found in The DaVinci Code, a novel written in 2003 and made into a movie in 2006. Just as the movie Thor takes old mythology, twists it around, and spins an entertaining story, so author Dan Brown took speculations from Gnostic and other unscriptural sources and gave Jesus an alternate history. Unfortunately, many people today are more likely to learn theology from movies than they are from the Bible.

Marriage is biblical, so Jesus could have married without sinning. But the fact is He did not marry. The Bible is marked by a conspicuous absence of any hint that Jesus was married. His mother, step-father, half-brothers, and half-sisters are mentioned, but no wife. There was no wife on the occasions He returned home, no wife when He traveled throughout Israel, and no wife when He was crucified.

The belief that Jesus was married is a Gnostic teaching. Gnostics believe that the physical is evil and the spiritual is good. This false idea leads to a great deal of misinformation about the nature of Jesus—mainly that He isn't God. Some of the Gnostic claims concerning Jesus' marital status are farfetched to the point of absurdity. However, the effect those claims have on the credulous is quite serious. Many people are confused about who Jesus is. The truth is something only God can reveal (John 14:17).


Read more: http://www.compellingtruth.org/Jesus-married.html#ixzz3IhuDSWYA

2014-11-10 18:12:57 · answer #2 · answered by The Lightning Strikes 7 · 0 0

Jesus Christ never married, When Paul in one of his messages wrote that it's OK to be married like Peter who's a good man yet is married,,, if Jesus was married wouldn't it have been better to give an example of Him instead of Peter?
Jesus came to earth to spread love, God's love, the greatest love that lead God to sacrifice His own son,, He taught us how to love one another and how to forgive. He didn't come to marry. The lady figure in the painting "The Last Supper" by Leonardo Da Vinci, it's not a woman, in fact if u study Da Vinci's paintings, I'd know that he used female features to emphasis youngsters. As we all know John was the youngest of the disciples, and at the last supper he was sitting beside Jesus, laying his head on Jesus's shoulder.. therefore, John is the female figure.

2006-08-16 03:48:10 · answer #3 · answered by sandra 1 · 0 0

Jesus Christ never married. The da vinci code is all crap. that is real blasphemy. Jesus came on earth, preached the gospel, was killed, burried, on the third day He rose again. He now sits at the right hand of the Father, He will come again to judge the living and the dead. It is this same Jesus who is my Lord and savior. He can save you too, if you ask him to come into your life. Don't let the marriage propaganda fool you. Its all lies.

2006-08-16 03:17:13 · answer #4 · answered by Pearl 2 · 0 0

history says he did. church says he didn't.
try reading books like "jesus paper:" and some other books by the same author. da vinci code ==is also good.
i believe he did marry Merry Magdalen. he was human and off course he had passion for love, women and sex.

2006-08-16 03:11:14 · answer #5 · answered by Rupai 2 · 0 0

read the following and make you own opinion:

Bible, Gnostic Documents, Da Vinci Code,

2006-08-16 04:54:53 · answer #6 · answered by Scooby 6 · 0 1

where did HE get JOHN from?

2006-08-16 03:12:12 · answer #7 · answered by blossom 3 · 0 0

Say what?

2006-08-16 03:07:48 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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