"Were Jesus and Mary Magdalene married?"

[ghosthunter]

Were Jesus and Mary Magdalene married?

[ghosthunter]

Proof POSITIVE Jesus "by law" had to have been married.

In the bible, Jesus is referred to several times as Rabbi. This is not a title given to a Jewish man lightly. And ask any Orthodox Jew, how many Rabbis are single ...? None! And even if there are liberal Jews that exist today that do not hold themselves to that law, back then to go against Jewish law could mean extreme punishment, or even death....oh yes we know that don't we? And while I personally believe that it was the church that is primarily responsible for demonizing and knocking Mary Magdalene to the ground, it would seem that ancient texts do support the fact that Mary was not only close to Jesus, but she was favored by him and that attention was significantly different than the affection he showed the other apostles. I am very open minded. I look to the evidence that exists from at or around that time in history. I weigh that so much more that personal feelings of what I was raised or even urged to believe through Catholic School. Jesus , I believe was married . I believe it was most probably to Mary Magdalene. Jesus was a Rabbi therefore required by Jewish Law to be married. He would have been stopped and action would have been taken against him that most certainly would have caused a complete alteration as to the events recorded in history. So I ask you? Look to the evidence. I am still a Catholic. I still give my faith to Jesus Christ and his teachings. It is absolutely amazing in and of itself that the story of my God that I have been taught since a child can be backed up; by documents found at the time the events occurred and with all of the amazing archeological finds. I respect the Muslim, the Jewish and the Christian faiths. I have a unique theory that I share with quite a few people.......We are all worshiping the same God!!!!! Jesus , according to everything I have learned had among him, some of whom he called his closest friends, his followers. And some of them at times doubted, even denied him. But He ,with love in his heart closed his eyes and died with the intention of saving them all from their sins. Based on that I do not understand the actions taken by men in the name of God on behalf of any of the faiths! I know that there is a jerk in every crowd, but at this point in the development of the human species why have we not yet invented an anti jackass ray gun or something along that line......Oh well one can only pray.....or close your eyes and think really hard and focused "anti jackass" "anti jackass" !!!!! lol Just kidding. Note to all: We are capable of looking through the insanity that renders us somewhat like young spoiled children that are uncooperative and insist that you are wrong and they , and only they are right. We are capable of looking to the past , the amazing archeology and technology that enables us to make discoveries day by day now it would seem. Realize that history repeats itself, and by realizing that than we should be able to avoid killing each other indiscriminately in the name of religion or race, because "WE ARE ALL RELATED" Science does not contradict creation....to the contrary the mere fact that everything known to exist in the universe dies , except the Universe itself screams of a creator to me. Perhaps a creator even more amazing and grand than we are currently able to express. Perhaps our bible, Koran, Talmud, perhaps they are merely a guide for us. The amazing religious texts we hold today are to God in comparison much like a comic to a literary genius. Yes they are Holy , divinely inspired, but God is so much more complex that our ability to comprehend and we remain here under these circumstances quibbling over what on a cosmic scale are really rather insignificant difference in details.

I believe that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were PROBABLY married because their relationship seems to have been redefined by those (males) who established formal churches down through the centuries.

If the Bible is viewed as "being written by God" then they were not married, and Mary was no more than a reformed prostitute who became a "Jesus groupie." It seems apparent to me that the Bible was composed by a number of different writers. This being the case, we can assume that each individual writer had his/her own agenda. Since most of those who were literate were males, we can assume that the agendas were male-oriented, thus creating a male-oriented church. Such a church would want their "heroes" to be males. For Jesus to have a wife at all would be problematic for these "church creators." For Jesus to have a wife who took an active part in his establishment of Christianity would be unacceptable. By relegating Mary Magdalene's role to that of reformed prostitute, the writers of the Bible ensured that Jesus remained as "pure" as his mother, Mary, was thought to be. Jesus and Mary would not have hung out together as long as they did if they were not married, or at least if they did not consider themselves "partners" on some level. In view of the mores of the times, marriage was their most likely partnership.

source: Were Jesus and Mary Magdalene married?

[CoDer]

Yan ang takbo ng utak ng atheist, para ring cult. Kung ano-ano ang nasa isip.

[robot.sonic]

Doesn't matter if they got married or not. Had a child or not. Still a great soul.

[CVT]

"And a lot of my Managers are called 'Sir',- so they must probably have been Knighted"....

15.5K:boxing1:

[CoDer]

"And a lot of my Managers are called 'Sir',- so they must probably have been Knighted"....

15.5K:boxing1:

Panalo!

[Monseratto]

Extension of "Da Vinci Code" and the gospel according to so-special Mary Magdelene. Strange how people continue to look down on prostitutes when Jesus himself was SPECIALLY mentioned defending one... does anyone ever wondered why it even made it to the all-knowing Bible?

[ghosthunter]

Extension of "Da Vinci Code" and the gospel according to so-special Mary Magdelene. Strange how people continue to look down on prostitutes when Jesus himself was SPECIALLY mentioned defending one... does anyone ever wondered why it even made it to the all-knowing Bible?

Actually Mary Magdalene was not the prostitute mentioned in the Bible with Jesus. Mary Magdalene was actually one of the early women followers of Jesus along with the (male) apostles. Unfortunately, she was later confused with the unnamed prostitute mentioned in the bible when the early Catholic church decided to remove books, gospels and verses from the "official" Bible. After the time of Jesus, Mary Magdalene later traveled around preaching the "gospel" and even formed her own sect of Christianity that was attractive to women of the time, for the same reason why men (the community leaders of the time) hated and condemned.

[pop3corn]

Mary Magdalene is what every guy/husband dreams of. supportive, sweet, beautiful, appealing, sensual, humble and probably ***y.

just picture a fashion model with Elizabeth Taylor cunningness but with the qualities of good housewife.

To us that's the perfect woman in the world. unlike what we have now, meron ka nga good housewife, lumba-lumba naman and very controlling and possessive, tapos kung maka-dasal parang lahat na lang ng dangers na-foresee kaya wag ka ng kumilos at sa bahay ka nalang, magpataba sa 55" tv mo

meron ka HoT chick/pokpokin taas naman ng ere if not "dumb blonde", meron ka nga smart / intelligent girl pero grabe naman ang pride at kung mag-claim ng equality sa'yo tapos sobrang binabasa mind mo to the point na yun na nga lang ang private sayo, gusto nya andun sya sa loob. yan ang mga babae ngaun


When God assumed the role of Jesus Christ, sobrang na-curious siguro sya sa personality of Mary Magdalene kasi even siguro sya may biases/stereotypes sa mga women noon araw (the 3 kinds of woman I described above). How could a woman so despised by society eh napakaganda ng ugali para sa kanya.

kung tuusin even after Christ's time, the Holy Roman Empire and rising Church that time never gave importance to the role of the woman. kaya tignan nyo noon if ang simbahan Pari lang ang may position talaga sa Vatican, I think even up to now a nun can't be a pope.

what Jesus Christ found in Mary Magdalene is a one-of-a-kind woman siguro. and Mary Magdalene may be one of the reasons why God had second thoughts of ending humanity. if mahirap pa din intindihin sabi ko, parang Avatar lang yan.

now am not saying that God had a relationship with her, it's just she found her very interesting. one of her creations ganun ka na-develop na quality.

[Monseratto]

Si OB nabuhay ulit? Nag tour ng Europe at naging born-again?

[marg]

Mary Magdalene is what every guy/husband dreams of. supportive, sweet, beautiful, appealing, sensual, humble and probably ***y.

just picture a fashion model with Elizabeth Taylor cunningness but with the qualities of good housewife.

To us that's the perfect woman in the world. unlike what we have now, meron ka nga good housewife, lumba-lumba naman and very controlling and possessive, tapos kung maka-dasal parang lahat na lang ng dangers na-foresee kaya wag ka ng kumilos at sa bahay ka nalang, magpataba sa 55" tv mo

meron ka HoT chick/pokpokin taas naman ng ere if not "dumb blonde", meron ka nga smart / intelligent girl pero grabe naman ang pride at kung mag-claim ng equality sa'yo tapos sobrang binabasa mind mo to the point na yun na nga lang ang private sayo, gusto nya andun sya sa loob. yan ang mga babae ngaun

Wow, BRAIN WASHED by the catholic church.

Bentang-benta sa kwento-kwento lang.

[Boy Bastos]

what Jesus Christ found in Mary Magdalene is a one-of-a-kind woman siguro. and Mary Magdalene may be one of the reasons why God had second thoughts of ending humanity.

Nag-second thought din kaya si Jesus at Magdalene?

[ghosthunter]

Mary Magdalene was one of the most devoted of his followers, always by his side and 'ministered to him of her substance.' She attended him to Calvary, stood weeping at the foot of the cross, and was the first to see the Christ risen. Extra-biblical and Gnostic traditions about Mary Magdalene holds that she was the wife of Jesus and pregnant with his child at the time of his death, a fact which was omitted by later revisionist editors of the Gospels. Interpreted allegorically, Luke-Acts reveals their marriage, a daughter, and two sons.

There is good argument which supports the idea of their marriage. Bachelorhood was very rare for Jewish males of Jesus' time, being generally regarded as a transgression of the first mitzvah (divine commandment): "Be fruitful and multiply". Mary Magdalene appears with great frequency (especially as compared with other women in the Gospels) and is shown as being a close follower of Jesus.

In the scene of the wedding at Cana, the names of the nuptial couple are not mentioned, but Jesus acts as a groom would be expected to act at such a wedding. Mary's presence at the Crucifixion and Jesus' tomb is consonant with a role as grieving wife and widow.

After the Crucifixion she watched by his tomb, and was the first to whom he appeared after the resurrection; her unfaltering faith, mingled as it was with intense grief and love, obtained for her this peculiar mark of favor. It is assumed by several commentators that Jesus appeared first to Mary Magdalene because she, of all those whom he had left on earth, was his beloved and in most need of consolation: The disciples went away unto their own; but Mary stayed without the sepulcher and wept.

source: The Life of Mary Magdalene

[Altis6453]

Well, whether Jesus was married or not, it doesn't diminish my belief in his divinity.

Besides, why would it matter now? Will the fact of marriage serve to increase or decrease the faithful?

[ghosthunter]

Well, whether Jesus was married or not, it doesn't diminish my belief in his divinity.

Besides, why would it matter now? Will the fact of marriage serve to increase or decrease the faithful?

If he got married, it might mean he would have children. And if he had children, wouldn't it be interesting to find out who is the modern descendant of the blood line of Jesus & Mary?

It would also question the divinity of Jesus. Did he really rise up to heaven or did he live out the rest of his natural life after having "risen" from the dead. Was he really the son of God or was he just a radical Jewish Rabbi or a prophet of God? As the Bible was interpreted and changed many times through the centuries, the religious "truth" has become a matter of whose interpretation you want to believe in.

It might not affect your faithfulness to your religion but it would affect the fundamentals of your faith's basis. It's like being told you were "adopted" when you have reached adulthood. It doesn't change who you are but it does make you curious about your origins.

[vinj]

If he got married, it might mean he would have children. And if he had children, wouldn't it be interesting to find out who is the modern descendant of the blood line of Jesus & Mary?

Er... OB?



If indeed that were to be, this would be quite a big shake-up... and their income should be tax free just as well?

[Monseratto]

"And the companion of the [Saviour was] Mary Magdalene. He loved her more than all the disciples [and used to] kiss her often on her [mouth]. The rest of the disciples [were offended and] said to him: "Why do you love her more than all of us?" The Saviour answered and said to them " Why do I not love you like her? When a blind man and one who sees are both together in darkness, they are no different from one another. When the light comes, then he who sees will see the light, and he who is blind will remain in darkness"

Gospel of Philip

From the Gnostic Gospels

[miked]

Ano rin kaya ang sabi nung Fvcking este yung The Book of Eli?....antok lang siguro to.

[uls]

meron ka nga smart / intelligent girl pero grabe naman ang pride at kung mag-claim ng equality sa'yo tapos sobrang binabasa mind mo to the point na yun na nga lang ang private sayo, gusto nya andun sya sa loob. yan ang mga babae ngaun

kahit in ancient times meron strong-willed intelligent women

men are intimidated by women like that so they suppress them

early Christian church leaders said women have to submit to their husbands

and there's one major religion that greatly suppresses women diba? their women are all covered up

[uls]

Gospel of Philip

From the Gnostic Gospels

kaya early church leaders didnt include that book sa Bible. and many other books that didnt fit their agenda