Jesus and Mary Magdalene

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Several points
  1. It doesn’t really matter what her sins were. The point is how she loved and cared for Jesus after her repentance and how she did not abandon him at the cross. She is always taking care of him, washing His feet, pouring perfume over His head and went to annoint His body after he died. She is totally devoted to Him and constantly thinking about his needs, not hers.
  2. I’ve always considered her the Church’s first “nun.”
  3. It’s ludicrous to think anyone could have had a sexual relationship with Jesus–because sex was created for us to have offspring and Jesus could not leave a human heir on Earth. If the whole point of the Bible is for God to be made flesh, to be made Incarnate through a virgin birth, why would he then have a child the old-fashioned way here on Earth? Wouldn’t a “grandson of God” get mentioned in the NT considering the focus both the OT & NT have on lineage?
  4. I sometimes consider her the patron saint of not being listened to. Because the apostles didn’t believe her after she told them Jesus was risen. But then again, if I were an apostle, I’d probably want to see that myself, too.
There are many odd stories out there about Mary Magdalene. I saw a movie about her on TBN and then the History Channel did a special on her.
5. The TBN movie was ridiculous–It showed her trying to kill herself after being raped by a bunch of Roman soldiers and then Jesus pulls her out of the water and saves her. Then she goes to King Herod’s court and helps Herodius with some skin infection. While there, she befriends Jon the Baptist and after he is executed/beheaded, she dumps her prestigious and wealthy boyfriend to follow Christ.
6. The history channel said she married Joseph of Aramethea after the Crucifixtion and moved to France with him??

I can’t imagine there is anyone more speculated about in the NT than MM.
 
turtle18 said:
Several points
  1. It doesn’t really matter what her sins were. The point is how she loved and cared for Jesus after her repentance and how she did not abandon him at the cross. She is always taking care of him, washing His feet, pouring perfume over His head and went to annoint His body after he died. She is totally devoted to Him and constantly thinking about his needs, not hers.
  2. I’ve always considered her the Church’s first “nun.”
  3. It’s ludicrous to think anyone could have had a sexual relationship with Jesus–because sex was created for us to have offspring and Jesus could not leave a human heir on Earth. If the whole point of the Bible is for God to be made flesh, to be made Incarnate through a virgin birth, why would he then have a child the old-fashioned way here on Earth? Wouldn’t a “grandson of God” get mentioned in the NT considering the focus both the OT & NT have on lineage?
  4. I sometimes consider her the patron saint of not being listened to. Because the apostles didn’t believe her after she told them Jesus was risen. But then again, if I were an apostle, I’d probably want to see that myself, too.
There are many odd stories out there about Mary Magdalene. I saw a movie about her on TBN and then the History Channel did a special on her.
5. The TBN movie was ridiculous–It showed her trying to kill herself after being raped by a bunch of Roman soldiers and then Jesus pulls her out of the water and saves her. Then she goes to King Herod’s court and helps Herodius with some skin infection. While there, she befriends Jon the Baptist and after he is executed/beheaded, she dumps her prestigious and wealthy boyfriend to follow Christ.
6. The history channel said she married Joseph of Aramethea after the Crucifixtion and moved to France with him??

I can’t imagine there is anyone more speculated about in the NT than MM.
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Turtle, this is a wonderful and glowing post. Thank you. As for TBN and TLC they are channels to be avoided…they denigrate all that is holy and put an earthy spin on everything. Sometimes I wonder where their “home base” could possibly be>
 
I have been searching for something that I recall about Mary Magdalene and that was she went into the desert, where she lost her beauty. She did this because she believed that Jesus would like her better.

Not really interested in what this means. Just interested in knowing, if my memory is correct and if so, where is the passage in the Bible that descibes this event. Knowing that the story was fabricated in my mind is OK too.

thx,
Ken
 
Maddalena said:
Ok, Mary Magdalene is my favorite saint, and it really bugs me when people are like, “Mary Magdalene and Jesus were married” or, “Mary Magdalene was pregnant with Jesus’s baby.” One of the reasons why she is my favorite is because I think it’s really amazing how close Jesus and Mary M. were FRIEND-WISE. I had never seen an instance where two people were so close unless they were family or married. My question is what started all of those stupid rumors about them being lovers? Did it start when that movie the Last Temptation of Christ came out? Or have people always wondered that?
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I think it started with the Gnostics in early Christianity. The New Testament says nothing
about Jesus and Mary having this sort of relationship, but there was clearly enough infor-
mation to inspire the Gnostic writers to compose fictitious Gospels etc alluding to that
myth, such as the Gospel of Philip.

Why do some people believe it?
It’s sexy, let’s admit it. There is the stumbling block that likely brought on
the Jesus/Mary myth (referring to marriage etc). STILL WRONG WRONG
WRONG, but I honestly think that this is the case on a mystical level.
 
I’ve heard everything from Unitarian ministers to my own Dad say that Jesus and Mary M were married [and had children].

It’s slander from Satan.
 
Bernard_Jones said:
Pope Gregory the Great was, I believe, the first to put two and two together regarding Mary Magdalene and the adulterous woman. He may or may not have been correct. Certainly, the Eastern Churches have never taught that Mary Magdalene was an adulteress. Catholic scholars have questioned the assertion for hundreds of years.

I hope that this helps!
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THIS ARTICLE IS REALLY GOOD AND GIVES INFO REGARDING THE TRADITION DATING TO WAY BEFORE POPE GREGORY. THERE ARE VERY GOOD POINTS HERE REGARDING THE CHURCH AND BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION REQUIRING GUIDANCE THROUGH THE LENS OF TRADITION. 😊
cuf.org/2005/01/faith-fact-st-mary-magdalene-a-model-penitent/
 
Didi said:
I remember talk of Jesus and Mary Magdalene being lovers way back when the musical Jesus Christ Superstar came out (in the '70s?), and with the song Mary sings “I Don’t Know How to Love Him.” The words are not exactly orthodox! This heresy probably dates way back in time…
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I disagree–the words are stunningly orthodox! The play follows the tradition that Mary was a prostitute, and when she becomes utterly devoted to Jesus, she only knows one way to express it, the only way she has ever experienced. She’s confused by the intensity of her love for him, and she knows that seeking sexual expression of it is not what the relationship demands. So she cries, “I don’t know how to love him!”

Added to that the fact that she must have a deep distrust of men, and she finds herself trusting Jesus to her core, it’s all very confusing to her. God is doing a new, overwhelming thing in her life, and she is cast adrift from every (wrong) thing she thought she knew.

I love love love that song, for all those reasons. God’s grace is often overwhelming and confusing, but the change is always worth it.
 
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