Jesus, was he a moral man?

Question

i have just watched the da vinci code? and had a though the church (catholics anyway) admits mary magdalene but calls her a prosititute, wheras the secret they apparently try to cover up says shes was jesus's wife (companion at least)

surly a man who visits a prostitute is giving into the sins of the flesh and therefore a immoral man but a man who is married to that same person is not and therefore a good man, does the church really want us to belive jesus was a man who visited prostitutes regulary (she followed him around) would be arrested in the world today for soliciting.

please understand i do know that the film is fiction and is totally unprovable, but it does use facts at its base.

there was one other thing id like to know if mary magdalene is in the last supper then which disciple is missing?

a lot of you seem to miss the point i KNOW that the da vinci code is fictional designed to sell cinema tickets but to christians JESUS was real and mary magdalene was real according to the catholic church, but my question was why does the church want us to belive jesus hang around with a prositute and died a child less single man instead of being a happily married family man? surly that would be a much better image to portray

Answer 1

Nothing is really known about Jesus, including whether he actually existed. All the stuff written about him was written decades after he supposedly died.

Answer 2

I don't know what so called "facts" the Da Vinci Code is based on but Jesus being married to or sleeping with Mary Magdalene is not one of them. If they were married, it would be in the Bible. That's a fairly big deal. And if he was sleeping with Mary and not married to her, then that's a sin and Jesus would no longer be the Messiah. Just because Mary was around Jesus a lot doesn't mean anything. She loved him, not romantically, they were friends. Friends spend time together. All of the disciples were present at the Last Supper. The painting of the Last Supper done by Leonardo Da Vinci was done a thousand years later and is what he thought it looked like not necessarily what really happened.

Answer 3

da vinci code is fiction. Ask the author the has said it over and over "it is fiction". The producer of the film did as well. Finally the history channel did an in depth report even through gentic testing stating that there is no fact to the da vinci code what so ever.

Based on this new information you have just recieved you have no proof that Jesus had any sexual relations with this prostitute. But simply that he preeched to the prostitute because she needed to know God so she can too get to heaven like everyone else. enough said.

Answer 4

Hi, Jesus was without sin, in the sense that He never sinned. Had the Lord Jesus sinned, then we are all doomed, since God required a perfect sacrifice (someone who had'nt sinned in word, thought or action). God looked upon the perfect sacrifice of Christ as payment for the sins of mankind (we are all sinners, which has been passed down from Adam...the first man on Earth and therefore not sinless). God will receive any person who comes to Him, trusting in the sacrifice of Jesus as payment for their sins. Jesus was never married, since His purpose for coming to the Earth was to die for our sins. Mary Magdeline is not in tthe picture of 'The Last Supper'....the Roman Catholic church has tried to 'deify' cetain people as saints, but this is actually heresy. Also, the author of the Da Vinci code (Dan Brown) is not qualified to comment on the bible, as he is not a Christian. The Bible clearly states: 'The natural man (person who has not been saved, and therefore, not filled with the Spirit of God that indwells all true believers) does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishnees to him;nor can he know, because they are spiritually discerned. (1 Corrinthians chpt 2, verse 14). The Da Vinci code is a conspiracy theory written by a man who hates God and Christ.

Answer 5

Untrue!! The "facts" that Dan Brown used for this come from documents dating way way later than the Bible. The Bible would have mentioned it if Jesus was married. If he had solicited a prostitute, that would've been a sin. Jesus was without sin as was stated in the later books in the NT. Whoever made up this conspiracy made it up so long after Jesus lifetime, how could they know anything at all?? How could you believe "facts" that came about so late? If you want to read proof of the validity of the Bible, check out Lee Strobel's book " The Case for Christ" The Bible is so much more believable from a Scientific or legal standpoint. Check your facts from more than one source. Find out where your "facts" are coming from.
There IS proof of Jesus' existance outside the Bible. The historian Josephus wrote of him.

Answer 6

Wow, I've heard a lot of bashing of Christianity, but never that Jesus was schitzoid! I feel sorry for most of your souls.


The Da Vinci Code is a lie. Give me hard evidence of what it says. The painting of the last supper was done how many hundreds of years after the real last supper took place?? Plus, Mary Magdeline was not even there, that's just Leo De Vinci's interrpretation.

Answer 7

The problem with the Da Vinchi Code is that it is NOT based on facts. It says that it is, but it isn't. The facts it claims are not facts. That is why it is very bad. It plants the seeds of unbelief. Yes, Jesus was a man, but He is ALSO God. He was not a sinner. He was the only perfect sacrifice.

Answer 8

Your prime mistake here is to assume that a man's moral character is determined by the people he chooses to associate with. You're not alone in making that assumption, as indeed most of the world seems to do nowadays, but it is a mistake nonetheless.

Core to Jesus's way of life is the notion of engagement with all of society. Today, our warped view of morals suggests that the way to behave is to sit above other people and to pass down assistance or gifts to let them get on with it, as though throwing ideas or material wealth at the problem will make it go away. Jesus, on the other hand, embodied the spirit of knowingly being on the same level as those around him without even needing to feel threatened or tempted by them.

Should we fear the prostitute for her profession? That seems like a grossly unfair denunciation of her humanity. Jesus looked at the beggars, tax collectors and prostitutes and saw, not inferior beings to be pitied and redeemed, but fellow human beings who he could assist by walking alongside them and sharing in their struggles.

We could learn a lot from his example.

Answer 9

What Jesus came to do was hang out with the people that society rejected, to show us that God is merciful to those people, He loves them as much as He loves anyone else. He forgave her her sins and told her to sin no more, apparantly she changed after she met Jesus, like millions of other sinners since then.

Answer 10

The da vinci code was fiction.

Answer 11

A better question: Jesus, was he a man?

Not as opposed to a woman, but did he exist? The oldest books of the new testament were written (at least) 40 years after he supposedly died. There are no other records of him outside the bible (though people have attempted forgeries when they realized there was a lack of evidence for such a magic man)

Sounds unlikely.