after watching the daVinci Code and reading the book, what is the big deal? Why is this such a far fetched idea, and why do people have such problems with the idea that Jesus could have been married. I think that it would have been great.
2006-11-30 07:03:13 · 39 answers · asked by elfkin, attention whore 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I don't see how having a wife would make him less perfect. That does not mean he lusted, God created Eve for Adam, so why would he not create someone for Jesus? And remember Eve was created for Adam BEFORE sin existed, so how could having a companion be a sin?
2006-11-30 07:29:20 · answer #1 · answered by bensbabe 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am LDS and I can tell you my own personal belief. I believe if he was not married here (which I think he really was) then at some point maybe in the millenium He will be. Marriage is a law of God, one cannot attain the highest degree of glory, Celestial, without first entering in to the new and everlasting covenant of marriage. Jesus came to fulfill all law, marriage is one of the laws, so therefore I believe he probably was married. At the end of that movie, Tom Hanks character makes an excellent point - Why would Christ be any less divine if he did have children and was married? Is it not a miracle to create life?
My mother-in-law has her own theory that the wedding Christ attended and turned the water into wine was his own wedding...
I do not understand why other people think it would make him less of a god if he was married and had children, they are afraid that would make him TOO human?? or what, I don't know.
I believe God the Father created us - we are his children. If he is married and has children and is still a God, then why not Christ also? Did not God himself say "It is not good for man to be alone." What is wrong with having an eternal companion??
Good question.
2006-11-30 07:29:25 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Male, Jewish 33 years old living in Judea, single? do people realize how far fetched that concept is?
The only thing required of to be a sacrifice, it's willingness. All the BS about him, Jesus having to be a virgin is puritanical spin.
According to the NT Jesus kept the Laws, that doesn't mean just the 10 commandments.
The NT gives just the highlights of the man called Jesus, not his whole life story. The highlights presented are those needed to make the religion work.
So in truth, we may never know whether Jesus was married or not, I choose to believe he was.
2006-11-30 07:28:57 · answer #3 · answered by Black Dragon 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The big deal is that if Jesus actually got married and had a child, then maybe he really was just "human". If he really was just "human" then maybe when he died he actually stayed...... DEAD. I mean if the bible is wrong about Mary Magdalene then what else could have accidentally gotten "miss-printed". All of this leads to the idea that perhaps Jesus really isn't any more God's son than anybody else is. If he isn't God's son, then why the heck are people worshiping him. That's what the big deal is. Who wants to believe that everything they've based their spiritual beliefs on could possibly be wrong.
2006-11-30 07:26:52 · answer #4 · answered by Tea 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well it is kind of interesting just for something to think about. I personally doubt that there even was a Jesus and I am very sure he wasn't God's son.
That said a Jewish Rabbi at that time would have been expected to marry and thought immoral if they didn't. It is therefore likely to me that if there was an historical Jesus, he would have married. A guy running around with just 12 other guys would have looked the wrong way if you know what I mean.
It doesn't really matter one way or the other to me. I just find it rather interesting.
2006-11-30 07:12:17 · answer #5 · answered by Alex 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Though Mr. Brown says it is a work of fiction, he presents it as fact. It's not just far fetched, it's an absolute lie. Jesus was never married or had children. The Jesus in the book is not the Jesus of the Bible and the reason Christians balk at it so much is because it has caused great confusion among true seekers of the truth about Jesus. It has put ridiculous questions in their minds that are based on lies.
2006-11-30 07:10:25 · answer #6 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Jesus was not married. He was the perfect offering of sacrfice.
The Holy Grail and all other trinkets of futility will get you know where without Christ. Jesus said that if possible men should not marry, so they can focus on God, but some cannot receive this teaching, if that be the case then they shall take a wife, and the two shall be one flesh. The married man shall not be in sin, if married. Nor the wife.
Now as far as sex being sin, that is untrue. God told us to reproduce and multiply, that was the first commandment. He just told us to do it within the boundary's of marriage. For the act of sex itself consumates and seals the marriage deal, then they become one flesh.
Adultery- sex with anyone other than your spouse, is sin. Because it leads to excess and looking at the way society is right now, with all the overtones of sex everywhere, it is apparent that it is a circle. If it were possible for us to keep sex within the loving confines of marriage to be enjoyed with one that we love, we would be a lot better off.
2006-11-30 07:37:21 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is not great for the church who have kept the original story of Christ for centuries. It means disaster to them. This very same church who thought the earth was flat and the Sun revolves around the Earth punished Galileo for telling the truth. And only in the 90's they admit such mistakes - too long for some institution that teaches humility and confession.
2006-11-30 07:12:18 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I don't see how this book is any more far fetched then the Bible. Give me a break Noah's Ark!! Come on, the guy would need an ark big enough to fit about 6 billion animals on(Roughly the size of Africa) give me a break...Lets not forget who wrote the bible..MAN..A man wrote the bible the same way this man wrote the Davinchi Code..both great books..both fiction stories!!
2006-11-30 07:11:28 · answer #9 · answered by Bucs_Fan 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It would mean that:
1. Current mainstream church teaching is wrong, almost all of it.
2. Jesus didn't live an ascetic life.
3. We would have a "holy mother".
4. If they had kids, Jesus could have actual descendants walking around.
All of these things would upset mainstream and conservative Christians. It would make Jesus closer to human, less removed from us, and would make women a stronger part of the story.
2006-11-30 07:13:33 · answer #10 · answered by GreenEyedLilo 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋