I've looked around the blogosphere for some support, and the best I found was Mark D. Roberts looking at the issue of Jesus marriage to Mary of Magdalene in depth. He plainly admits that there is no hard historical evidence that Jesus was or was not married. He looks at both the Gospels/New Testament as well as non-canonical "gospels", and found nothing convincing to prove that Jesus was married.


There is still the question of divinity and if marriage would have detracted from Jesus' divinity. My gut tells me yes, though I cannot prove it by Scripture. Mr. Roberts has more to say in his article Was Jesus married?:


Jesus being married would have caused some deep theological issues for us: would His wife be more honored than any other human, how would He have supported her as an itinerant preacher/healer, if the marriage produced children would they be part God?

I suppose my "rabid" insistence of Jesus being single to preserve His divinity was overboard. There's a part of me concerned that if we give in to this idea of Jesus being married, then there will be more pressure to compromise on who Jesus was/is and to strip away His divinity. We all have our own definition of what constitutes divinity and what we should honor/glorify.

In particular, we should be very careful with how the media portrays Jesus, as more movies and TV shows come out purporting to show the "true" Jesus. It's up to the church to spread the good news of the Gospel and portray Jesus as best as a disciple can.

No toes stepped on here, Marc. After four years (!!) of corresponding with you, I am confident that your heart is true and that we see many more things (important things) in the same light than we do differently.

That said, I understand where you're coming from and respect the position you've taken. I maintain, however, that the current DaVince Code brouhaha has more to do with defending the church, which I am less inclined to do, than it does with defending the faith, which is of considerably more importance. And since there is no way to prove, scripturally, whether Christ was married or not, I maintain that it doesn't matter in the larger scheme of things -- nor do the hypothetical theological issues you assert would be raised by his marriage. It is, as you say, not central to Christian doctrine and is, as I said in my original post, one of those things we just shouldn't be spending so much time and energy on when there are so many lost in the world.

Still friends, I hope! (And I've replied to your e-mail, as well!)

Now NYYL (Nice Young Yorkie Lady), you know better then that! You're still my e-buddy and sister in Christ. I just hope I'm not too disagreeable when I disagree.

Maybe even in this thing, that others (the lost?) see us getting all "het up" over this will want to know more and be open for some "engaging". That would be a good thing.

My fear is that they see us getting all "het up" over stuff like this and assume that we have nothing to offer but worldly strife and disagreement.

Yes, but it's also good to be passionate about the things we believe about God. If getting along becomes our only concern, we've lost a lot of our compellingness (or whatever the word becomes!)

We need to be able to disagree with one another while preserving the love (as in the above exchange). The truth is too important to be abandoned.

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Your journal is interesting.
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