You find ancient texts written by Jesus himself, but they appear to contradict the Bible, what do you do?

Question

Let’s assume that you are the only one who knows exactly where they are (so if you want destroy them, you can). By “contradictions” with the Bible, I mean this: The writing appears to be Jesus’ personal journal in which he talks about being married to Mary Magdalene, having a child, wanting to pass leadership of the church on to his wife, etc. Obviously I’m borrowing these examples from historical debates and speculations that have been around for centuries, recently made popular in a novel, but I don’t want to debate the claims. I want to focus on what YOU would do if you actually found yourself in this position. Please assume that there are no facts outside of the Bible to contradict the authenticity of the manuscripts, so you know that most historians will believe that Jesus actually wrote them. Would you release the documents? Hide them? Destroy them?

Dodolah: These ideas have very little to do with Dan Brown or his book. Historians and scholars of all sorts have been debating these ideas and making speculations of this sort for centuries. Dan Brown simply took this historical material and some of the speculations and came up with a good plot for a novel. My goal here is NOT to debate the claims of various historians and grail-hunters (although I do find all of this stuff fascinating). Rather, my goal here is to hear what moral justifications people might offer for either releasing or not-releasing the documents for people of the world to examine.

211: You can only assume that these writings of Jesus contradict God Almighty if you assume that the modern Bible is the literal word of God. Since most Christians make this assumption, I would expect most Christians to say that the writing cannot actually be the writings of Jesus. But the point of the question is that, from the point of view of archeologists and historians, most available evidence suggests that the writings are the writings of Jesus, so most of THEM will conclude that these ARE the writings of Jesus. So, knowing that this is the case, would you release the writings or not? I am exploring the moral dilemmas arising from a tension between faith and historical evidence. If your faith told you one thing, but tangible evidence contradicted your faith, would you let the world have this evidence?

Rac: It is true that there are no KNOWN writings of Jesus, but the point of the question is to assume that such writings do exist and have been discovered by you. I agree that Jesus being married, etc., would not have to shake one’s faith in his divinity, but since these hypothetical writings contradict the modern Bible, and since the Bible is what grounds the faith of Christians, I’m sure that such writings would be upsetting to many Christians (even though I know that most Christians would simply assume that the evidence is false, no matter how good it might appear to be).

Answer 1

Nice paradox. Let's assume you find a box too small for God to get into, would you crawl inside? I'd make a movie and make a bunch of money and use it to feed the poor. OOPs Martin Scorsese beat me to it.

Answer 2

Moral integrity dictates that I divulge what I believe to be true. So the answer is yes, I would more than willingly release this information to the public. Personally, I think the ideas propounded in books like “The Da Vinci Code” and “Holy Blood Holy Grail” though not plausible, would not seriously impinge upon the Christian faith at all. To say that Jesus married Mary Magdalene, fathered a child with her, and led held some sort of life with her that resembled domesticity, doesn’t detract from his message of unselfishness, love and forgiveness. Those very facts don’t negate his work on the cross and the redemptive power of his sacrifice and his resurrection. If what is posited in these books are true, it does not discredit his divinity All these facts do, at the most, is decimate some rigid doctrinal assumptions which prop up male hegemony in Church governance.

Jesus having romantic intimacy with a woman does nothing to effect my belief in him as a divine creature. Christian dogma, after all states that he was both fully human and fully divine. If Jesus partook in other humanly activities, like eating, drinking, working, and those mortal endeavors did not tarnish his godhood, why does sexual activity within the confines of marriage deprive Jesus of his divinity or authority? People should be more concerned with the spirit of scripture than its trivial minutia.

Answer 3

Of course I would not hide them. If such documents truly existed, which is highly doubtful, and if I were the only one who knew where they were, the only thing to do would be to make them public. The world would have the right to know what Jesus had written in His private diary.
None of this would change Who Jesus is, or what He did...it would only change some people's perception of Him.
Personally, I believe He and Mary Magdalene were very close friends, but I don't think they were married. I just don't think Jesus, knowing what lay ahead, would have put her through that. I also believe that He intended for Mary, as well as His other women friends, to have authority in the church. Mary was not Jesus' only female disciple, there were many of them, and the Bible tells us that these ladies supported His ministry. (Amazing that bit didn't get edited out, but I have an idea God had something to do with that *wink*.) But I do think Mary and John were His two closest friends.

Answer 4

Jesus isn't area of a trinity. The Bible does not tutor a trinity, nor does it tutor that He became created. The Scriptures tutor that he's the only begotten Son of God (John a million:14,18, John 3:sixteen-18, Col a million:15 {firstborn of all advent} a million John 4:9-10) which ability He became begotten of God in the previous all advent. yet unto them that are referred to as, the two Jews and Greeks, Christ the flexibility of God, and the understanding of God. ( a million Cor a million:24) be conscious that this Scripture says that Christ is the understanding of God. shop this in ideas and look at Proverbs 8:22-30. that's understanding, Christ talking approximately Himself, asserting that He became introduced forth from God (no longer created) in the previous the mountains and hills have been formed or in the previous any element became created. Jesus is the literal begotten Son of the eternal God, and that's the rationalization why he's God by nature and possesses divinity. that's merely like a touch one is human because of the fact its father is human and a domestic dog is a dogs by nature because of the fact its father is a dogs.

Answer 5

The scenario you have set up is already contrary to what I know to be true.
First, there are no known writings of Christ.
Second, He probably was married and may well have had children that he protected from the masses.
Third, I know that anything authentic from Christ would be in complete agreement with current scripture revealed to His prophets here on the earth today. Yes, He has modern prophets to whom He reveals His will. That is why there would be no disagreement.
Thus, if I found a new manuscript that purported to be from Christ, I would immediately turn it over to the prophet and know that it is in good hands.

Answer 6

Jesus didn't write the bible. Some say it's a book of fables. These are stories written by generation after generation, how can anyone prove they are true? If you did find something that you think Jesus wrote put it out there. Anything that shows more proof of truth then the bible makes since to me.

Answer 7

i doubt that artifacts were written by Jesus.
There is no way He contradicts the bible cause He is the WORD of God. So, that document must have been written by Dan Brown.
:) and no historians will agree that they were written by Jesus.
(too many discrepancies)

Answer 8

it cant happen. if u were to find these text it would mean Jesus was contradicting God Almighty which would be a sin, and we would all be doomed for God cant sacrifice an unclean sinner to save man from sin that wouldnt make sense since there were hundreds and thousands of sinners in the world. he could have just kept Jesus and sacrificed one of us

Answer 9

try to authenticate them first, establish your rights to the docs, then display through a museum

Answer 10

can't care less.
These are assumptions, I guess even Jesus wouldn't think too hard about it.