I hear a lot of comments about how Christ was "without sin". If that is truly a persons response to that comment than is it not true that one should think of marriage as sinful...that sex is sinful...that procreation is sinful? Why could the son of God not be a married man? It says he was tempted by everything one can be tempted by...but if not married how can he represent the temptations one goes through as a spouse and a parent?
2007-05-09 05:05:31 · 15 answers · asked by sketch_mylife 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Christ was born with "original sin" (some BS made up by old men), that is why he had to be baptized. Catholics are funny. We are all born with original sin (this is because of Adam & Ever...somehow their :sin" is passed down to all of us...weird. Catholics actually believe this (I was raised Catholic-12 yrs in Catholic school, so I should know)...and if you are not baptized, you can never be pure because of original sin. So, a baby who might die of SIDS before s/he was baptized, has no chance of going to heaven, according to catholics, this baby will go to "limbo"...or the north pole with Santa.
In about 200AD, Christianity had become an institution headed by a 3-rank hierarchy of bishops, priests, & deacons (they were the guardians of the only "true faith" - aka Catholosism). Anyone questioning them was called heretic & expelled or worse. When the orthodox gained military support (because we all know how much Jesus wanted us to be militant with each other), Emperor Constantine ordered the majority to destroy every trace of blasphemy (including the gospels of Mary Magdalene, and Thomas-which claimed that Jesus' disciples were both men & women, and that there was a sexual, if not marital relationship b/t Jesus and Mary Magdalene).
Basically, religion is kind of like the news. It is never a straight-forward as it should be, it is cut & edited & cut & edited, so far (and in the case of Christianity ONLY BY MEN) that one can never really know the truth. During the time of Constantine, a woman was like property of a man. It was a very misogynistic society. In all likelihood, Jesus was married, or was definitely a sexual being (that is part of being human). At that time, it was blasphemous to disagree with the "true faith" and the ELDER MEN...one could be murdered for such. Therefore, basically the Bible we know & love today, is just whatever pieces Constantine &Co. found acceptable. It has been shoved down our throats as pure truth, and we have been taught to not question it. Fortunatly people are free thinkers, and the smart ones know to question every bit of information given-never accept ANYTHING as truth-especially out of religion or politics-because the 2 are so often correlated. It's just because people feel like if they question what they have been told to belive, all hell might break loose, or they will be sent there after they die. BTW, how does that make sense if God is love, and understand all of our flaws????
Basically, don't believe any word of the Bible, it was written by 3-4 old men locked up in a castle out of touch with reality that were probably gay or sex addicts. They didn't care about the people, only themselves, and were so egocentric, they actually decided to edit scripture down to what they thought it SHOULD be, not what it was.
Read the Gnostic Gospels, it will change you life!
2007-05-09 05:37:42 · answer #1 · answered by shahlagoddess 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We may never know if he was married or not. Even if he was that does not take away from the fact that he is God.If he was married, so what?! It is not a sin to get married or to have children.
Sex outside of marriage is a sin. People who are trying to prove that Jesus had a child with Mary may say that they were never married. They are just trying to put down Christianity. No matter what happens, we know that Jesus was a sinless and perfect man that died for our sins. He died so that we could go to heaven and be perfect with him.
I hope that this helped!~*
2007-05-09 05:13:28 · answer #2 · answered by Special K 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People get angry because they see Jesus as God and everyone else must have been below him.
I just think that there's so much we don't know about what really happened. There's a gap in his story and books about him that have been ignored. You're right. Marraige can't be a sin because God is the one who instituted it in the first place.
I don't remember hearing Jesus talking about not being married or that everyone should be single. Paul, who had never met Jesus, promoted singleness. Fornication is said to be a sin against yourself first. I think about that when I regret giving so much of myself to the wrong person. God is merciful as to forgive.
2007-05-09 05:29:15 · answer #3 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
christians always go back to the argument "the bible doesn't say he was married." well, big deal. the bible only talks about jesus' ministry, starting when he is 30 years old. it mentions very very very little of anything before that.
so if the bible doesn't say he WASN'T married, then it should be accepted that it was possible. in jesus' time it was customary for men to get married in their teens. therefore, such an event would not have been recorded, as did no events become recorded until he was 30.
the bible mentions nothing of his private life.......hobbies, interests, etc. so i guess the traditional christian might not think he had any of these either, just because the bible doesn't mention them.
HOW COULD JESUS NOT HAVE BEEN MARRIED? WOULDN'T HE BE JERUSALEM'S MOST ELLIGIBLE BACHELOR?
2007-05-09 07:02:04 · answer #4 · answered by blackroserequiem 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe he was.. a huge part of what we know as Christianity today came through a 2000 year cycle of redefinition, reinterpretation, tossing out of gospels that didn't fit the ideas of the folks who published the current version of the Bible etc. so we have general ideas about Jesus but very few verifiable specifics. And I don't find it distasteful to think of him as married. The Roman Catholic franchise of the faith has driven the idea of single Christ, probably as part of the control strategy to drive the idea of single priests and nuns.
2007-05-09 05:28:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-26 21:45:05 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is extremely unlikely, as an eldest son of a Jewish family, that Jesus would have spent his life unmarried.He would have been "married off" at age 14 or 15 and it wouldn't have mattered if he wanted to or not. His parents would have arranged, and married he would be.(of course it is debateable that he was married at the time he was preaching)
The idea that Jesus was chaste is a kind of backlash against the extreme sexuality of the pagan world and a Christian attempt to differentiate itself from that pagan world.
2007-05-09 05:42:41 · answer #7 · answered by zuleha-needs a less boring job 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Excellent question. I personally find it alot easier to believe that Christ might have been married and had a couple of kids than the possibility that he rose from the dead after 3 days.
But I guess that thinking that Christ might have had a family and fathered a couple of kids makes his divine nature seem alot less likely, and gives him an almost human qualtiy. And we all know we can't have Christ being portrayed as human. That just don't seem right. :)
2007-05-09 05:11:21 · answer #8 · answered by Adam G 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
This is a VERY good question. Marriage is a sacrament in the Catholic church, yet it is denied to Christ and to the clergy in that church. If god sent his son down here to live as a man, why deny that son a very human experience? Why did the church decide (and, yes, they actually voted on this in the 4th century) that Christ had been celibate??
2007-05-09 05:11:14 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sex is NOT sinful.
Because Jesus was not married, if he had sex that would have been a sin. If he were married, it would have not.
Christ was without sin, never married, and therefore, never had sex.
He had more important things to do!
Peace!
2007-05-09 05:11:45 · answer #10 · answered by C 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋