do any of you think that the whole thing about jesus marying Mary Magdalene and the catholic church trying to cover it up is true? That there could be some acutal relitive to jesus?
2007-07-07 20:30:25 · 9 answers · asked by lbear 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No, I don't think its true. The whole thing is based on very shoddy research, and has been repeatedly refuted by legitimate historians.
Still, there could be relatives of Jesus. His cousins and their descendents were well known in the early Church.
As for the Holy Grail, I suspect that it is based on the loss of Apostolic Succession in the Anglo-Saxon Church following the Norman invasion of the 11th century. Centuries later, it was adopted by Christian mystics in Spain as an allegory for spiritual development. Centuries after that, it was adopted as a literary genre meant to glorify the virtues of Medieval chivalry.
2007-07-07 20:39:27 · answer #1 · answered by NONAME 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The DaVinci Code was a novel. It couldn't even be classified as a historical novel.
The Dead Sea Scrolls do not mention Jesus, Mary Magdalene or Christianity.
The Jesuits had nothing to do with banishing the Knights Templar. They were banished in the 1300s. The Jesuits were not founded until the 1500s.
Josh Bernstein of the History Channel obtained a bone fragment of a supposed "direct descendant" of Jesus and Mary Magdalene. It contained no Middle Eastern DNA, only European.
The Priory of Sion did not come into existence until the 1950s.
The genealogy was the work of a French con man and anti semite, Pierre Plantard, who admitted under oath that is was a hoax
A lot of the information came from a book Holy Blood, Holy Grail. One of the authors stated that if anyone says he believes Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene they are a liar. He said the book was only a hypothesis.
2007-07-08 04:02:56 · answer #2 · answered by Shirley T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was a story told to sell a book and make someone alot of money. Someone gave me a good answer about it. Jesus would have been too busy to marry. He had alot to do in a short amount of time. I do think that women were more important to the early church than what is let on. I am sure that women were the reason for it spreading so quick.
2007-07-08 04:08:04 · answer #3 · answered by Heart of man 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the so called Holy Grail would be an icon similar to statuary, and if it existed, people would tend to worship it. The Bible says not to.
(Exodus 20:4-5) “You must not make for yourself a carved image or a form like anything that is in the heavens above or that is on the earth underneath or that is in the waters under the earth. 5Â You must not bow down to them nor be induced to serve them, because I Jehovah your God am a God exacting exclusive devotion, bringing punishment for the error of fathers upon sons, upon the third generation and upon the fourth generation, in the case of those who hate me;
(Acts 17:29) “Seeing, therefore, that we are the progeny of God, we ought not to imagine that the Divine Being is like gold or silver or stone, like something sculptured by the art and contrivance of man.
Every story about the Grail seems to grant it special powers.
And we must worship only in spirit and truth.
(John 4:23) Nevertheless, the hour is coming, and it is now, when the true worshipers will worship the Father with spirit and truth, for, indeed, the Father is looking for suchlike ones to worship him.
2007-07-08 04:25:43 · answer #4 · answered by pugjw9896 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't believe in it...but who knows Jesus had brothers and sisters, so there could possibly be decedents from his line, but I do not think he was married, or that they had children. I think it was a book, that got blown out of proportion and now people want/have another reason to try and say Jesus was just a man..
2007-07-08 03:33:59 · answer #5 · answered by Nicole B 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
one never knows.
you're treading here on very iffy territory.
in order to assume that jesus married mary magdalene and so forth you have to assume that there was actually such a person... once you believe that... why not go all the way?
are there relatives? assuming that jesus actually existed, the story tells of brothers, so their line might have survived.
2007-07-08 03:39:12 · answer #6 · answered by joe the man 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
maybe it would be more helpful for people to focus on the message of peace, tolerance, love, forgiveness etc that jesus preached rather than split hairs about his marital status, possible descendants and other details
does it matter so much where he came from, who he was? just listen to what he said
2007-07-08 04:06:58 · answer #7 · answered by justwanttoknow 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, it is not true. The Bible does not mention that at all.
2007-07-08 03:35:51 · answer #8 · answered by zzz_ivette 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2007-07-08 03:37:45 · answer #9 · answered by Melissaaaaa<3 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋