How is it so much better than Mary Magdalene was a prostitute loyal to Jesus, over being his wife?

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and main champion to the cause?

The strong denial of their being any truth to the DiVinci code and how I've seen Christians batten down the hatches declaring their faith stronger than ever is what brings this question on.

How does this idea weaken your faith? Or does it add to it?

There are researchers out there who are studying this. Watch your history channel every once in awhile. DiVinci Code isn't the original source of this information about this. In fact when it came out, I already knew that this was being looked into and had known it for several years.

It is suggested by a rather large amount of people that there is mistaken identity here.

The DiVinci Code serves a purpose. Even if so many get in an uproar and debunk it, there are so many others that are celebrating mainstream Hollywood finding a way to shake-it up.

The last few years have been full of information leading to the very real possibility that Mary was the Spouse of Jesus and not a prostitute.

How does it affect us that we are so capable of not shifting as information comes in. You were taught in the first place that she had a bad history, and now different information comes to light and many don't want to hear it. IT doesn't change the fact that many do. Now, you have to watch what you say about the First Lady of Christ and the DiVinci Code has nothing to do with it. IT was a tool, only. Before that book/movie many hadn't known differently, and now the questioning is so much greater.

Answer 1

It's because Christians want to be able to say that Jesus was a virgin.


See, back then, virginity was championed for many reasons. People thought that the soul was passed on through procreation, so virginity became a very important issue when you wanted to pick a girl to marry. If she wasn't a virgin, then maybe she was having someone else's kid, and that would endanger your soul. Since women were just property back then, virginity became the mark of a piece of unused, quality property.

Thus much of the emphasis on it (though much less so on men).

So, Christians insisted quite vehemently that Jesus and Mary were virgins, despite there being no rational reason why a lack of virginity would say really anything about either of them.

Unfortunately, this teaching continues today, and many Christians still consider virginity to be a virtue, even to the point of trying to shame people for engaging in perfectly safe sex. This in turn leads to more unsafe sex (since it harms the state of sex education classes).

It's a sad series of events. If only one of the Gospel writers could have just mentioned that Jesus had a wife and kids, then the world would be a slightly better place.

Answer 2

The Divinci Code is pure fiction and nothing else. There is no evidence that Mary Magdalene was either a prostitute or a wife of Jesus. A work of fiction without basis neither weakens ones faith nor strengthens it.

In Christ
Fr. Joseph

Answer 3

The DaVinci Code is garbage. If you knew the Bible, you would know that Jesus Christ was God and had no intention of any one woman being His bride, but He intended for the entire Christian believers to be His bride. The believers are the bride of Christ and the body of Christ in the Word of God.
If Jesus had been married to Mary Magdalene the Apostles had many chances to write about it and they never did. Jesus knew that He would guide us for 3 years before He went to the Cross of Calvary. Jesus knew He was sent by God to take away the sins of the world. Jesus knew He would stay sinless and accomplish this task that the Father wanted done. Jesus as a man in human flesh, the Son of God, but also a Branch of the Father Himself and the Father Himself.

I do not know where you get that Mary Magdalene was a prostitute. The Bible does not say this. The Bible does say that Christ casts demons out of her.

The DaVinci Code didn't affect my faith in any way. The book is garbage.

Answer 4

She may have had a past as a prostitute but she was not one after she decided to follow Jesus. So all of Dan Brown's fictional musings--"Da Vinci Code's" cover says it's just a novel--about Jesus and Mary Magdalene getting married is nothing more than speculation based upon very flimsy historical conjecture. There's no historical proof Jesus and MM ever got married.

Answer 5

For me if Jesus was or was not married has no change on my faith.I'm sure Mary was crazy in love with Jesus so am I.If he were married to her and she had previously been a prostitute how beautiful redemptive love is.That this magnificent Jesus would love so deeply a prostitute as this is his heart toward all mankind,no matter what your past he is willing to love us.And die for us,he is my only hero,and I can only hope to be more like him.I want to possess a heart like him for the people he brings into my life.

Answer 6

Mary Magdalene was not the woman accused of adultery.

Chronologically, the first time we are introduced to Mary Magdalene is by Luke, in Luke 8:2.

After this, Jesus traveled about from one town and village to another, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom of God. The Twelve were with him, and also some women who had been cured of evil spirits and diseases: Mary (called Magdalene) from whom seven demons had come out; Joanna the wife of Cuza, the manager of Herod's household; Susanna; and many others. These women were helping to support them out of their own means.
We learn several things about Mary Magdalene from this introduction. She was among "many" people, including other women, who traveled with Jesus and his disciples. She had been possessed by seven demons, which Jesus exorcised from her.

Answer 7

My faith would not be weakened if Jesus was Married. It is something that I do not believe right now because I think if He was then it would have been in the Gospels.

It does say that she was a prostitute who was faithful to Jesus in them and so that is what I believe. This shows me that Jesus loves everyone and that we can go to Jesus even with flaws, and we need not be perfect to serve Him.

Answer 8

Hollywood made Mary Magdalene a prostitute. Not the church. The church does not assign feast days and make grand basilicas for prostitutes.

DaVinci code is a work of fiction. Didn't you know?

There's a lovely picture of it here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume

Answer 9

Mary of Magdala (called the Magdalene) was NOT the prostitute of the gospels.....that has been determined quite some time ago. We do not know the name of the one who was the prostitute.

Answer 10

I think the truth is the problem...We can just have her be the first Pope also and that would help his cause too. Or we could make her a goddess, or a queen or anything.. She could be the first astronaut..