Ancient gospel of Jesus' Wife 'not a fake'.

[Huey09]

If it were true, we'd know exactly who Jesus' wife and children were, who their descendants are and where they lived... The Church would have never suppressed Jesus having a family, especially since during the early days of Christianity, the Church was having trouble against people like the Gnostics and Docetists who denied that Jesus was even human. Jesus having a wife and children would be pretty good proof that He was human...

Oooh come now, you put WAAAY too much faith in the goodness of men. Or I'm a heavy conspiracy theorist. I think its a bit of both.

 

[outhouse]

But to ponder if he would've had a child, would the baby just be human?

Why wouldn't it be? :slap:

 

[outhouse]

This only gives us a glimpse of the movement at a later date in time and what some people wanted to believe.


It is very similar to the gospel authors themselves, it is theology and it is was far removed from any actual event.

 

[Sunstone]

I think it proves Jesus existed, or at least that his wife did.

I think it proves Jesus and his wife lived in a little house in the suburbs of Jerusalem with a white picket fence and a cat and dog they named "Fluffy" and "Spot".

 

[outhouse]

I think it proves Jesus and his wife lived in a little house in the suburbs of Jerusalem with a white picket fence and a cat and dog they named "Fluffy" and "Spot".

Rock mason, driving busted up ole suburban with bald tires. 6 kids and a wine habit.

 

[fantome profane]

Jesus was a bachelor.

I don't believe there is sufficient evidence to decide the matter either way. But I am curious why you are so certain. Could you tell us why you think Jesus was a bachelor?

 

[Awkward Fingers]

And now another episode with Peg and Jesus Bundy in, Married With Apostles!!

 

[Breathe]

I'm okay with this.

 

[GoodbyeDave]

The first carbon dating put the papyrus at about 200 BC. Now that might have been interesting!

The fact that the papyrus is old and the ink is correctly made, doesn't make it an old document: forgers know about theses things. But even if it is genuine, the idea of a writer hundreds of years after the event is hardly earth shaking.

 

[Shiranui117]

Jesus was a bachelor.

But to ponder if he would've had a child, would the baby just be human?

Yes. Jesus is fully God and fully man, but the two natures aren't mixed or hybridized. So His children wouldn't be demigods or something absurd like that.

 

[Sleeppy]

Here's the text:

Cambridge Journals Online - Harvard Theological Review - Fulltext -

 

[Shiranui117]

Oooh come now, you put WAAAY too much faith in the goodness of men. Or I'm a heavy conspiracy theorist. I think its a bit of both.

I'm not putting faith in the goodness of men. I just know a few basic things about Christian history that conspiracy theorists like to completely ignore.

 

[Amechania]

I think Jesus probably got it on with lots of chicks, but getting married and settling down would probably have put the kybosh on his mission. "Oy, Jesus, off again on another 'business trip' The Weinbergs are having us over for dinner next Thursday."

 

[Windwalker]

Jesus was a bachelor.

Like they say, "Chapter and verse, please?"

But to ponder if he would've had a child, would the baby just be human?

Just as human, and divine, as we are.

 

[Mycroft]

I think Jesus probably got it on with lots of chicks, but getting married and settling down would probably have put the kybosh on his mission. "Oy, Jesus, off again on another 'business trip' The Weinbergs are having us over for dinner next Thursday."

So that's why he lied about being the Son of God:

1) people believed it
2) chick magnet.

 

[Amechania]

So that's why he lied about being the Son of God:

1) people believed it
2) chick magnet.

I'd do him.

 

[Windwalker]

I'd do him.

Sexy Jesus.

 

[steeltoes]

No doubt some scholarly types are busy inventing criteria to allow for Jesus being married.

 

[Huey09]

No doubt some scholarly types are busy inventing criteria to allow for Jesus being married.

I wonder if they'll circumvent the ahem* physical side of a marriage
Puts a whole new meaning on coming before the lord. Yes I went there

 

[steeltoes]

I wonder if they'll circumvent the ahem* physical side of a marriage
Puts a whole new meaning on coming before the lord. Yes I went there

The criteria of non embarrassment, we needn't be embarrassed by such things, therefore Jesus existed and was married.