In the Bible, Jesus professes to be both the Son of Man and Son of God. In order to be the Son of Man, he would have to fit in, in every way, shape and form. That includes getting married, having children, etc etc. Otherwise no one would have given him the time of day since they would consider him a madman or they'd stone him to death for blasphemy (claiming to be God).
However many people read the Bible as saying that even at his age, he was still single because there is no place for a woman with God. Why do people find it acceptable to ignore entire chunks of ancient cultures and essentially rewrite history in favor of what their beliefs say is correct instead?
2007-02-27 21:17:58 · 5 answers · asked by Cinnamon 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
RW, those are excellent points.
2007-02-27 21:33:52 · update #1
what I also find interesting is how obviously and blatantly so many do not think about WHY it might be that the jews would reject jesus as the messiah.
or consider for a moment what it would mean, to people of a religion where God is an absolute singular entity, that has never once given a non ethereal, non-abstract representation of himself, would suddenly turn around and decide to have a flesh and blood incarnation.
and nobody seems to consider the fact that its profoundly, obviously unjust to give someone infinite punishment for even the worst crimes that could possibly be commited by a human being, let alone for merely exerting free will (which god gave to begin with) and chosing one unproven preference over another.
2007-02-27 21:25:14 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The episode in the Gospel of John where the people "took up stones to stone" Jesus for calling himself God never happened.
How do I know?
John was written around the year 100 when the gentile church was incorporating the idea of the man-god with Jesus as a way of transitioning the Greek world into Christianity. The pagan cultures of the time where filled with man-god savior figures.
Notice that noone has a problem with Jesus saying he's "one with the father" in the synoptic gospels. Language relating to God as a father and people as His children is common throughout the Hebrew Bible.
2007-03-01 01:48:22 · answer #2 · answered by mo mosh 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God also reduced the lifespan of man kind because they "sought after their eyes" read it in Genesis.....oh knowledged one. Their are distractions to following God, so if Jesus didn't have a wife back then, it makes you question, but rather believe a movie (I never saw it, never wanted to just from what I have heard.....) As far as I know, no one ever discredits the one that Jesus was baptised from, in the flesh, madman John the Baptist, he saw it and so did many other people, and that is why there are four books, each had their own account.
As far as the chunks of culture left out, was it Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John that left things out, or was it the so called few that made their own after that time period, ok, well maybe hundreds of years later,,,,,,o,k, well maybe more than that, maybe a thousand,,,,,,give or take a few thousand years..... :-)
The fact is, you viper, you are regurgitating lies, readily spit out by the spawn of hell hoping that some soul will hear them some day. Wow, I was so angry just then I just started typing...... give me a moment.....
2007-02-28 05:30:45 · answer #3 · answered by kaliroadrager 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
To be the Son of Man only means He had flesh and capable of sinning if He so desired. Being the Son of God meant the He was the Word of God made flesh. Jesus Christ was both Son of God and Son of Man. Simple and no mystery.
2007-02-28 05:25:46 · answer #4 · answered by martha d 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Just like today there are people who never marry. Marriage isn't a must.
2007-02-28 05:21:44 · answer #5 · answered by djm749 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋