what i mean is, it says in the bible that when you marry someone that you become one with them. if Jesus did marry Mary Magdeline, she would be the wife of God the Son/Jesus. if this was proved to be true by the Vatican, would the Catholic faith stop worshipping/honoring Mary, the mother of Jesus and start worshiping Mary Magdeline? P.S. THIS IS ONLY A RETORICAL QUESTION, I KNOW THAT JESUS WAS NEVER MARRIED AND HAD NO KIDS. I'M JUST WONDERING WHAT YOUR VIEW ON IT IS. do you think Christianity would be different?
2006-12-05 05:50:25 · 26 answers · asked by Christ Follower 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
please don't say, 'why would a man who worships god ask a question like this?' i'm just wondering if you think it would be different.
2006-12-05 05:53:11 · update #1
Going with The DaVinci Code ideas here (not that I necessarily believe or not any of this I'm writing. I'm simply playing Devil's Advocate): Let's just say he WAS married. Christianity is as it is now even though he was married because the MEN wanted to be in power and cover up things as they truly were. NOW, let's say he was married and there was NO COVER UP. Christianity would have been drastically different!!! Catholicism would be very different too!! All the "popes" would've been female and / or descendants of Christ and His wife. (It's possible God would've ensured all first-born in His lineage were female and they, of course, would assume the papacy--if there were still such a thing.) The Bible would be MUCH bigger because it would contain all the books that are supposed to be in it. Women would be more respected and in more roles of power in the world. War would be far less of an issue, some would say, because women ran things. Who knows but, rest assured--things would be VERY different!!!
2006-12-05 06:25:13 · answer #1 · answered by Jodi S 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You DON'T know that Jesus was never married. In fact, it is very likely that he WAS married, and likely to Mary Magdalene. It was extremely uncommon for men not to take wives, and it would have certainly been mentioned if he was that aberrant. It would be like forgetting to mention that Jesus had green skin or slept underwater or something! The basic assumptions are that he looked like a normal person, was an air-breather, and got married, just like everybody else. So, to answer your questoin: No, no difference at all. Because that's the way it was.
2006-12-05 05:59:10 · answer #2 · answered by dig4words 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
IF...... there had been a man... and only a man... and this man had been married to someone called Mary Magdeline... and this man had started some"religious" movement tied to the political unrest of the time... that movement would not have survived to this day...BUT..... Jesus The Christ was not just a man... Jesus was both fully God and fully man...not a concept man can fully grasp... and The Church of which He is The Head was founded by God... and God is eternal...The Church will endure as long as it is needed on this earth... when it is not...Jesus will return and call those of The Church out of the earth....
Catholics do not follow the teaching of Christ any way so they are not of The Church... and they will not be called by Christ when he summons The Church Home.
2006-12-05 05:59:22 · answer #3 · answered by idahomike2 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Of course it would be different!
Keeping Jesus a virgin like his mother is fundamental to the focus of the faith be it celibate priests in the Catholic Church or the pure abhorrent reaction that Christians would have to the very idea that the son of god was having sex. It would be impossible for Christians to get their collective heads around the idea that Jesus was actually enjoying his time on earth prior to his death on the cross. Having him actually expressing his human nature?! That part of his human genetic gift given to him by Mary?! He is technically a demi god insomuch as he was allegedly fathered by god but mothered by a human being, is he not?
Christians have never acknowledged his human side - only when it was convenient for them to do so. Dying a torturous death on the cross, one that every human being can empathize with is acceptable. But sex, what is considered base human nature, is most definitely not. Further...
What if Jesus was bi-sexual? His deep love for all life could have been the wellspring for a physical expression of that love. This is just as possible as it is for him to have been married to Mary Magdalene, had sex with her, and her bearing his children. Further to that...
Did he have a sense of humor? Which begs the question,
What are the things that are most human about Jesus given that he was, is half human? This is not blasphemy. This is honest query given what we know about how Jesus came into this world and his history while here. And if more focus was given to his human traits...
How would this impact and change Christianity?
2006-12-05 06:15:29 · answer #4 · answered by gjstoryteller 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Mary Magdalene was a loyal disciple and follower of Christ. She has a certain historical significance but it is being taken way out of proportion now. The Da Vinci code has taken hold of the popular imagination. One man even wrote a gospel dedicated to her.
The Nag-Hammadi should be read by all Christians, along with the Dead Sea Scrolls. Why? Because those books are actually unofficial parts of the Bible and were suppressed by the early Western church. It is useful information about the belief systems of groups such as Gnostic Christians and the Nazirites. It also shows the links between the Jewish faith and early Christianity. It is another side of history.
Do not get sucked into these cults of personality that advocate worshipping Mary Magdalene, St. Thomas or anyone else. There is one God and one God only. We are not to make icons in His image, period. As Unitarians, we are forbidden from believing in the Holy Trinity because we are steadfastly monotheistic.
2006-12-05 05:55:31 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
Not only is it a hypothetical question, but "retoricle" is spelled rhetorical.
And yes, Christianity would be vastly different.
Jesus would have been defiled by a marriage and His sacrifice would have been less than the perfect sacrifice as required by the Old Testament Law. Mankind would therefore still be in their sin with no means of getting to the Father.
2006-12-05 06:00:17 · answer #6 · answered by Bobby Jim 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No Christianity could be no diverse while you evaluate that's authentic that as quickly as you wed you grow to be one with one yet another, in spite of the incontrovertible fact that that's mutual. Jesus could impact Mary Magdeline additionally. Jesus could nonetheless be the comparable individual no remember if he became into married or no longer. He became right into a suitable individual and he became into on no account able to do incorrect. If it had befell that way, then he nonetheless could are starting to be God's message in the process, and the Bible became into written in the previous he got here, a minimum of the previous testomony became into and so each thing could nonetheless be the comparable.
2016-10-04 22:07:40 · answer #7 · answered by greenwell 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, Mary would still be venerated, since she is the mother of Jesus. If Jesus was married, it would make no difference. He may well have been married. After all, he WAS a jewish man over legal age, and Jewish men did get married, it was expected of them by the society of the day. We'll never know, since Paul and other apostles destroyed any evidence of his life other than his last few years.
2006-12-05 05:57:14 · answer #8 · answered by judy_r8 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
1. This question is hypothetical, not rhetorical (note the spelling).
2. I doubt that the Bible would reveal if Jesus had a wife and kids, considering its conservative nature. After all, the Gospel of Thomas is completely ignored by those who practice Christianity as apocryphal even though it seems like a more accurate account of what happened.
2006-12-05 05:54:58 · answer #9 · answered by heavymetaloccult 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Ah, shades of the Da Vinci Code. It would make a huge difference in that the prudes in the church would have to cook up a whole new set of explanations of JC doing the horizontal mambo and all the purile connotations that would spring up in the minds of the flock.
And you don't know anything about Jesus unless you are over 2000 years old.
2006-12-05 05:54:31 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋