If Rabbis are expected to marry and Jesus was a Rabbi then do believe it was in keeping for him to marry?

Question

As my mother said how can a good marriage counselor understand if they have never experienced marriage. And God is suppose to be the great conselor. I think in order for God to truly understand life as a human then being married along with having a child would have definitely helped him greatly to understand being human. Besides the people here who seem preoccupied with intimacy would say why come to earth and not experience one of the worlds greatest pleasures (responsibilities)? Too bad chocolate had not been invented yet.

Answer 1

tough one...there is at least one school of thought that Jesus was married...
it was every good Jewish man's responsibility to marry and have children...if he had not been married and had children...that would probably been recorded somewhere ...one if not all of the gospel writers would have had to explain why he was not married with children...since it wasn't written, the assumption is that he was a good Jewish man ...married with children

another school of thought ....just as speculative...just as tenuous assumptions...maintains that certain passages from the Nag Hammadi, from the Coptic writings, from the Gnostic writings...seem to indicate a wife ...and maybe a family


a totally different school of thought raises the possibility that Jesus was a Nazerene....a sect of Judaism that took vows of chastity/purity , not cutting their hair [Samson was one], and a very restictive diet...if Jesus was a Nazerene ...he would not necessarily have been married and it would have been seen as OK with the Jewish community


Who knows????

Answer 2

Yes. In fact, in Jewish law at the time a Rabbi HAD to be married and only had a specific amount of time to do so. Even after the death of his wife, a Rabbi had set mourning period, then HAD to find a new wife. IF he were not married within that time frame a Rabbi at that time could not teach or perform any religious function until he had saticfied that condition.

Answer 3

Jesus was not a rabbi.
Rabbis in the modern sense of the word are not mentioned in the bible and they first appeared in 200AD(200 years after the birth of Christ).[1]

Answer 4

Jesus was not a rabbi. He was a student, who became an apostate by publicly contradicting his teachers and violating Jewish Law

Answer 5

I thought he was stripped of his Judaism by the Romans, just like all Jews who were 'accused' of claiming to be Messiah . ..THAT one gets complicated . .. I dont believe Rabbis are supposed to marry . .. if that's the currently believed Law etc my opinion is that it has been an alteration

Answer 6

Fallacy of the over-extended term, here 'Rabbi.'

Answer 7

So many assumptions..

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