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MLou
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How does a Catholic respond to a Protestant who claims that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were married?
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MLou
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MLou
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Little_Mary
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Ask them to prove it.
Tell them to stop mistaking fiction for non-fiction.
There are many groups out there that appear to have one purpose: To undermine the divinity of Jesus Christ and lower Him to a human level. Those are the works of satan if you ask me.
Tell them to stop mistaking fiction for non-fiction.
There are many groups out there that appear to have one purpose: To undermine the divinity of Jesus Christ and lower Him to a human level. Those are the works of satan if you ask me.
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RBushlow
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They are not from any protestant denomination that I am aware of. This would amount to denial of the divinity of Christ.
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hermit
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Gimme a break. The DaVinci Code was fiction!
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martino
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The burden of proof with a statement like that is definitely on the person that makes the claim. Someone cannot just make an absurd statement and then put the burden on you to disprove it, that is rediculous. If they cannot back up that claim with serious facts then I would not even entertain the conversation.
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Ken
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Why would marriage deny the divinity of Jesus? What’s the problem? Is marriage a less noble state than being single?
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Minerva
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it’s more the problem if Jesus had been married and reproduced then there are a bunch of demigods running around this earth. Some people would like this, and that’s how the legend of Jesus and Mary M got started - by the Merovingian kings of France who wanted to claim descent from Christ Himself, much like the Roman emperors claimed divine descent too.
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jeffreedy789
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how would a protestant respond to someone asking if Jesus and Mary were married?
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JimG
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Give me a break. How can they be so gullible as to believe such nonsense?
Let’s see. We believe that Jesus is the 2nd Person of the Trinity, the Son of God, and that he took on a human nature (but remained a divine Person.) So we are to believe that God the Son married a human woman? Their children would be literally children of God.
There were a lot of wacky writings from the 2nd or 3rd centuries that were rightly rejected by the church precisely because they were ridiculous, and the church knew the facts from first hand knowledge.
I am reminded of a guy I worked with on a part time job while in school. He had read a book by a woman who claimed to be reincarnated from a previous existence. He believed it firmly because, as he told me, “They couldn’t print it if it weren’t true.” Sometimes it’s just not worth the arguing. Sorry.
JimG
Let’s see. We believe that Jesus is the 2nd Person of the Trinity, the Son of God, and that he took on a human nature (but remained a divine Person.) So we are to believe that God the Son married a human woman? Their children would be literally children of God.
There were a lot of wacky writings from the 2nd or 3rd centuries that were rightly rejected by the church precisely because they were ridiculous, and the church knew the facts from first hand knowledge.
I am reminded of a guy I worked with on a part time job while in school. He had read a book by a woman who claimed to be reincarnated from a previous existence. He believed it firmly because, as he told me, “They couldn’t print it if it weren’t true.” Sometimes it’s just not worth the arguing. Sorry.
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RobedWithLight
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The burden of proof is upon those who say so.
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Andyman1517
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The idea that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene is not a Protestant or Catholic idea but a stupid idea. The idea has most recently come to the forefront of public thought thanks to the flawed history of Dan Brown and his Da Vinci Code.
The idea chiefly revolves around a statement in the Gospels, when Jesus appears to Mary Magdalene after he has been crucified and tells Mary not to touch her (Noli me tangere in Latin). This scene has been made famous in paintings by Renaissance masters Titian and Fra Angelico. A few years before The Da Vinci Code came out, a woman from Harvard Divinity School (Karen King) wrote a book called The Gospel According to Mary Magdalene in which she makes the assertion that Jesus was married based on her findings in the Gnostic Gospels, as well as on the statement “Noli me tangere”. She claims that in the original Greek the Gospels read, “Do not embrace me” as opposed to “do not touch me”. To her “embrace” is much more intimate than “touch” and thus justifies that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene.
This idea is preposterous and infantile as anyone with half a brain can see. It is important to note however that the Catholic Church has no official doctrine on whether Jesus was married or not, and it seems that even if he was it wouldn’t at all affect his divinity. In fact there are many prominent Catholic Priests and Theologians who believe Jesus to be married.
Hope this helps.
In Christ,
Andrew
The idea chiefly revolves around a statement in the Gospels, when Jesus appears to Mary Magdalene after he has been crucified and tells Mary not to touch her (Noli me tangere in Latin). This scene has been made famous in paintings by Renaissance masters Titian and Fra Angelico. A few years before The Da Vinci Code came out, a woman from Harvard Divinity School (Karen King) wrote a book called The Gospel According to Mary Magdalene in which she makes the assertion that Jesus was married based on her findings in the Gnostic Gospels, as well as on the statement “Noli me tangere”. She claims that in the original Greek the Gospels read, “Do not embrace me” as opposed to “do not touch me”. To her “embrace” is much more intimate than “touch” and thus justifies that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene.
This idea is preposterous and infantile as anyone with half a brain can see. It is important to note however that the Catholic Church has no official doctrine on whether Jesus was married or not, and it seems that even if he was it wouldn’t at all affect his divinity. In fact there are many prominent Catholic Priests and Theologians who believe Jesus to be married.
Hope this helps.
In Christ,
Andrew
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RobedWithLight
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It is likewise not Church teaching. Which is why I’m curious who are those prominent Catholic priests and theologians you are referring to.
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