ANSWERS: 7
  • Since a good 20 years of his life was unrecorded it is very possible but not proven one way or the other.
  • What nonsense! The only detailed record we have of Jesus is in the Gospels, and they do not mention Him being married. It was traditional for Jewish rabbis to be married men, however, so it would be theoretically possible that Mary Magdalene may have been His wife. But thee is NO possibility that He would have been married to a man. They would have been stoned to death immediately, and He would have had no credibility among the people at ALL.
  • You are just so awful. I guess you get a charge out of saying horrible things about Jesus. This is not a joking matter what you are doing.
  • Negative on both counts. What ridiculous statements.
  • Come on dear friend! You can pose far better questions than this.
  • You're just asking for trouble, aren't ya?
  • 1) There are many things reported about Jesus, but nowhere in the New Testament is it reported that he could have been married, whether to a woman nor to a man. Marriages between men were forbidden in this society. 2) "The Sophia of Jesus Christ is one of many Gnostic tractates from the Nag Hammadi codices, discovered in Egypt in 1945. The title is somewhat coded,[citation needed] since although Sophia is Greek for wisdom, in a gnostic context, Sophia is the syzygy of Christ." Source and further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sophia_of_Jesus_Christ "In Gnosticism, a syzygy is a divine active-passive, male-female pair of aeons, complementary to one another rather than oppositional; in their totality they comprise the divine realm of the Pleroma, and in themselves characterise aspects of the unknowable Gnostic God. The term is most common in Valentinianism." Source and further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syzygy "Pistis Sophia is an important Gnostic text. The five remaining copies, which scholars date c. 250–300 AD, relate the Gnostic teachings of the transfigured Jesus to the assembled disciples (including his mother Mary, Mary Magdalene, and Martha), when the risen Christ had accomplished eleven years speaking with his disciples. In it the complex structures and hierarchies of heaven familiar in Gnostic teachings are revealed. The female divinity of gnosticism is Sophia, a being with many aspects and names. She is sometimes identified with the Holy Ghost itself but, according to her various capacities, is also the Universal Mother, the Mother of the Living or Resplendent Mother, the Power on High, She-of-the-left-hand (as opposed to Christ, understood as her husband and he of the Right Hand), as the Luxurious One, the Womb, the Virgin, the Wife of the Male, the Revealer of Perfect Mysteries, the Holy Dove of the Spirit, the Heavenly Mother, the Wandering One, or Elena (that is, Selene, the Moon). She was envisaged as the Psyche of the world and the female aspect of Logos." Source and further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pistis_Sophia 3) "The Bride of Christ is a metaphor for the Ecclesia (church), likening the relationship between Christians and Jesus to a betrothal pointing to a future wedding, when Christians are re-united with Jesus. John the Baptist talks in the Gospel of John chapter 3 verse 29 in terms of himself as a "best man" with the implication that Christ the bridegroom (see also Matthew 9:15) is coming to meet his bride, but there is nothing specific to identify the bride. It could be Israel or it could be looking forward to the Church, but Church Fathers such as Cyprian applied the image to the Church. The image originates from the Old Testament prophets, who described Israel as God's bride or wife, for example in Isaiah 54:5. In the New Testament, Saint Paul in 2 Corinthians chapter 11 verse 2 speaks of presenting the church (at Corinth) as a pure virgin to Christ as husband. In the Revelation to St John chapter 21 has been taken to reflect the relationship between Christ and his church. However, in Revelation 21 the bride is explicitly the New Jerusalem after the final judgment rather than the earthly church, and in its context is more likely a simple contrast between the New Jerusalem and the Whore of Babylon (a symbol for the Roman Empire)." "From Patristic times and in the modern Roman Catholic church, this image of the Church as Christ's bride has been applied individually to nuns and consecrated virgins. For some women, the image describes a more personal relationship with Jesus. Examples are Anne Catherine Emmerich, Joanna Southcott, Gertrude Morgan, Åsa Waldau." Source and further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bride_of_Christ

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