Jesus' "wife"

[AussieTrish]

The parchment is not part of the bible, and does not comply with divine inspiration of scripture, and is unproven. As has many times been the case, scientists or archelogistics produce items that they believe contradict Christian teaching, bbut these are time and time again discovered to be simply mistaken interpretation and postulation, but not fact.
It’s easy for any of us to decide that the bible is full of errors, but this is the Catholic position:

catholicculture.org/cultu…fm?recnum=8441

II. INSPIRATION AND TRUTH OF SACRED SCRIPTURE

105 God is the author of Sacred Scripture. "The divinely revealed realities, which are contained and presented in the text of Sacred Scripture, have been written down under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit."69

"For Holy Mother Church, relying on the faith of the apostolic age, accepts as sacred and canonical the books of the Old and the New Testaments, whole and entire, with all their parts, on the grounds that, written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, they have God as their author, and have been handed on as such to the Church herself."70

106 God inspired the human authors of the sacred books. "To compose the sacred books, God chose certain men who, all the while he employed them in this task, made full use of their own faculties and powers so that, though he acted in them and by them, it was as true authors that they consigned to writing whatever he wanted written, and no more."71

107 The inspired books teach the truth. "Since therefore all that the inspired authors or sacred writers affirm should be regarded as affirmed by the Holy Spirit, we must acknowledge that the books of Scripture firmly, faithfully, and without error teach that truth which God, for the sake of our salvation, wished to see confided to the Sacred Scriptures."72

108 Still, the Christian faith is not a “religion of the book.” Christianity is the religion of the “Word” of God, a word which is “not a written and mute word, but the Word is incarnate and living”.73 If the Scriptures are not to remain a dead letter, Christ, the eternal Word of the living God, must, through the Holy Spirit, "open [our] minds to understand the Scriptures."74

vatican.va/archive/ccc_cs…m/p1s1c2a3.htm

God bless

 

[DavidFilmer]

Michael Francis, please delete this entire thread (I am asking as the OP).

 

[AussieTrish]

There’s another active thread here discussing the whole “wife of Jesus” thing. I want to approach this from a different direction:

Why would it matter?

Other than being interesting, if we discovered that it was really true, so what?

I don’t want to discuss whether it’s true (the other thread is doing that), but why anybody would care one way or another.

Sorry David, some of us, including me, did go off topic. Your question specifically didn’t relate to whether or not the parchment was both genuine and true, but whether or not it would matter if Jesus was married.

How theologians would interpret that? It could raise issues and complications, as someone says, the matter of resultant children and their status. A whole new area of theology might be needed. Finding Jesus was married would matter because theologians would need to rationalise or interpret this to many Christians.

To Christians would matter as there isn’t a single hint or trace of spouse (or children) in the gospels or in the prophesies about the messiah. Is scripture therefore deficient…though it is divine word?

Atheists could see it as another tool to tumble Christianity,
and believers might find their faith foundation undermined, even if simply because, in general, humans don’t relish having their beliefs overturned in any way.