Thursday, September 20, 2012

Was Jesus married?

Was Jesus married? I love this news item about the parchment allegedly written by Jesus referring to his wife. I was raised Catholic. I attended Catholic schools from kindergarten through high school. I used to go to church, but haven't for years--I golf on Sundays now. But I still consider myself Catholic. Old habits (no pun intended) die hard. I find the story of Jesus and the times in which He lived very interesting. I simply adore biblical movies (Jesus of Nazareth is my favorite--I watch it a couple times a year) and books, especially ones that get your imagination running wild, like The Da Vinci Code. Did Jesus have a wife? If you look at it objectively, it's pretty likely that He was married. In that time period, marriages were arranged by relatives and community elders. You didn't really have a choice, most people were probably married off by the time they were 16 years old. Jesus was 33 when He died--He could have been married more than a decade by that time. I hope He was--everybody needs someone! I also really, really like how the parchment reads "She will be able to be my disciple." This means women were equal in His eyes. That's my favorite part! This is where the church went the opposite direction and that's too bad. Maybe the church wouldn't be dying out in Europe and North America if women could be priests, and if priests had been allowed to marry--just like Jesus. And maybe that little peice of parchment, with a look into the long-ago past, gives us hope for the future.

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