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Mary Magdalene
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Gaura Priya
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I actually kind of believe so. That Jesus had three wives: Mary Magdalene, and the two sisters Mary and Martha. 
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I know of this!I actually kind of believe so. That Jesus had three wives: Mary Magdalene, and the two sisters Mary and Martha.
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I actually kind of believe so. That Jesus had three wives: Mary Magdalene, and the two sisters Mary and Martha.
Interesting. Why you believe this?
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How so?
No need to get snippy. Its totally unreasonable to make things up and tell people to google it.Paar Surrey said:
Pegg
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Gaura Priya
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Well, it's only a theory espoused by a minority's minority. Mary Magdalene was always the first of the female disciples to be associated with Jesus - she was there at the foot of his Cross, and she was there at his resurrection.
The two sisters Mary and Martha had their brother, Lazarus. Jesus also called Lazarus his brother in the Bible. This can mean either a) term of endearment among friends, b) endearment for one's spouse, or c) term reflecting family relation (either through blood or marriage).
I would like to vote for C!
Plus, it just makes so much better sense. The newer Scriptures unearthed recently have shown Jesus Christ to be the husband of Mary Magdalene. So why not?
Pegg
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I actually kind of believe so. That Jesus had three wives: Mary Magdalene, and the two sisters Mary and Martha.
you realise though that this would be evidence that Jesus was pro polygamy... yet the gospels show that he viewed Monogamy as Gods original standard and he viewed even divorce and remarriage as a form of adultery.
So i cant see how he could have been a polygamist with such a view.
Whatever source has suggested that Jesus could have married sisters the author must return to the drawing board. It shows a lack of interest in the subject. The person is just throwing ideas into the air without doing any research. Its like they didn't even bother reading the story.
The suggestion that Jesus could have married sisters shows a lack of familiarity with everything Jewish and with Jesus precarious situation. Marrying sisters was not only illegal but was evil for Jews. This person has not even read the basic story. I mean Judas, with rights to kill, was there with Jesus sleeping in the same quarters! Jesus was not only spied upon and his every word scrutinized but one of his own apostles (Judas) was an assassin looking for a way to have him arrested. Judas was a member of the Throat Cutter party which in the Gospels is called 'Iscariot', an assassin of wayward Jews. (The Iscariots were hitmen which deemed it better to kill wayward Jews than to try to encourage them to reform.) The only reason Jesus had three years to preach was that they couldn't find any dirt to pin on him. Had Jesus done anything clearly evil or illegal his ministry would have been over before it began. Instead it took three long years and Judas had to be paid in silver to frame Jesus, and Judas later regretted what he had done. (Judas travelled with Jesus for 3 years, and thirty pieces of silver were Judas wages for those three years, probably.) It was enough money to purchase a pottery business, to set Judas up for life.
(reference to Jewish Law: Leviticus 18:18 "Do not take your wife's sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is living.")
The suggestion that Jesus could have married sisters shows a lack of familiarity with everything Jewish and with Jesus precarious situation. Marrying sisters was not only illegal but was evil for Jews. This person has not even read the basic story. I mean Judas, with rights to kill, was there with Jesus sleeping in the same quarters! Jesus was not only spied upon and his every word scrutinized but one of his own apostles (Judas) was an assassin looking for a way to have him arrested. Judas was a member of the Throat Cutter party which in the Gospels is called 'Iscariot', an assassin of wayward Jews. (The Iscariots were hitmen which deemed it better to kill wayward Jews than to try to encourage them to reform.) The only reason Jesus had three years to preach was that they couldn't find any dirt to pin on him. Had Jesus done anything clearly evil or illegal his ministry would have been over before it began. Instead it took three long years and Judas had to be paid in silver to frame Jesus, and Judas later regretted what he had done. (Judas travelled with Jesus for 3 years, and thirty pieces of silver were Judas wages for those three years, probably.) It was enough money to purchase a pottery business, to set Judas up for life.
(reference to Jewish Law: Leviticus 18:18 "Do not take your wife's sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is living.")
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Pegg
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In Genesis, when God created the first woman, he joined her to the first man and they became a pair. That is how God set them, and that is how they remained their entire life. As a monogamous pair. God could have created multiple wives for Adam, but he didnt.
Genesis 2:18-24
18 And Jehovah God went on to say: It is not good for the man to continue by himself. I am going to make a helper for him, as a complement of him. ...22 And Jehovah God proceeded to build the rib that he had taken from the man into a woman and to bring her to the man.
Jesus reaffirmed that standard for his followers. Matthew 19:3-6.
3 And Pharisees came up to him, intent on tempting him and saying: Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife on every sort of ground? 4 In reply he said: Did YOU not read that he who created them from [the] beginning made them male and female 5 and said, For this reason a man will leave his father and his mother and will stick to his wife, and the two will be one flesh? 6 So that they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has yoked together let no man put apart.
Jesus was very clear that a man and woman will become 'one' together. He gave no room for multiple wives...he didnt say a man and his WIVES....he said a man and his WIFE (singular) would become ONE together.
And he also taught that if a man were to divorce his wife and remarry without proper grounds to do so, he is actually committing adultery.
VS9 I say to YOU that whoever divorces his wife, except on the ground of fornication, and marries another commits adultery
If a man could be charged with adultery for 'REMARRYING', then how could he possibly take an additional wife without it being viewed as a form of adultery? He couldnt. More then one partner is an act of adultery in Gods eyes. And this is why the Christians promoted monogomy as the standard God wants us to live by. It was the standard he instituted in Eden, and it is the standard that he will ensure becomes the norm....any who refuse to obey God will simply not be permitted to live, so polygamy will come to an end soon enough.
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Because he ""divorced"" first of course. Marrying new wives happens with the consent of the existing ones. If not, then it is not a proper legal marriage and is adultery.
Its true that it says one man and one woman will become one, but it doesnt says that no other wife will be allowed from then on. You missed the fact that people didnt marry two wifes at the same time in the same wedding, so of course he will marry one as he moves out of his parents house and not multiple ones.
This doesnt negate the parts of the bible that explain how to properly have more than one wife.
Pegg
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Ecclesiastes 12:14 For the [true] God himself will bring every sort of work into the judgment in relation to every hidden thing, as to whether it is good or bad.
In the end, how we respond to Gods Word (Jesus) is how we will be judged. If Jesus is goint to be our king and judge, then we want to be 100% sure that we are living in harmony with his teachings.
A good principle to live by is "when in doubt, Dont!"
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You cadubt about whatever you want.
You havent provided a single verse in favor of your point.
You have provided a very flexible iand clearly bias nterpretation for the unrelated texts you put forth though, that you did.
Pegg
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christians knew what Jesus words meant... the apostles taught the standard of monogamy...so we dont have to try and 'guess' what Jesus meant.
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You mean you think that their interpretation is the right one and you pretend that is not a gut feeling based guess.
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Yes i think their teaching IS right. Jesus taught them directly and told them to pass it on. They put it down in writing, thus producing the Greek Scriptures, so there is no one more qualified to teach then Jesus apostles. I trust them because they were hand selected by Christ, they were given holy spirit, which was evidenced by their ability to perform miracles...so I have absolute faith that what they wrote had Gods backing and direction.
And they wrote that a man should have only 1 wife and that only death or adultery ends the marriage.
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Paul directly contradicted Jesus teachings and wrote things Jesus never wrote.
All that you wrote here as what you think happened. No historian is sure that any of the gospels are what actually happened because ey were written a lot of time after Jesus.
Paul was not with the twelve. The twelve didnt even thought themselves as "christians" for christs sake.
They were all jews, including Jesus. They had a sect that had its leader die way before their apostles seem to understand his message and then it changed dramatically a it got told to non jews and then everything went pretty much to hell. ( actually! Hell came in the picture!)
Besides, all of them predicated life of austerity. If they didnt have more than one wife, it is most likely because of practicality, not direct dogma, as evidenced by you being unable to provide ONE SINGLE verse prohibiting poligamy.
I can definetely give you jew texts saying it is ok, in the bible too.