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1. Story of The Da Vinci
Code: Murder Mystery
2. Story of The Da
Vinci Code: Historical Secret
3. Leonardo’s Last
Supper
4. Derivation of
'Holy Grail'
5. Mary Magdalene in
the Bible
6. Priory of Sion
6a. Opus Dei
7. Questions of
Jesus’s True Identity
8. Non-Christian
Sources
9. Christian Sources:
Biblical Texts
10. Other Apostolic
Texts
11. St.
Ignatius of Antioch – AD 110
12. "Alternate"
Gospels: Gospel of Peter (c. AD 130)
13. St. Justin,
Martyr – AD 151
14. St. Irenaeus of
Lyon – AD189
15. "Alternate"
Christianities
16. Gnostic
Scriptures
17. The
‘Muratorian’ Canon – c. AD 200
18. Constantine
19. Council of
Nicaea - AD 325
20. St. Eusebius,
Bishop of Caesarea (c. AD 330)
21. Constantine’s
Bibles
22. Codex Sinaiticus
23. Closing the
Canon
24. Philosophical
Issues: Diversity of Christianities
25. Philosophical
Issues: Subjectivism of Belief
26. Theological
Issue: Was Jesus married?
27. Other Historical
Claims
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Theological Issue: Was Jesus married?
As a real man, it was possible for him to
enter into a romantic relationship with a real woman. But there is
no evidence for it in the oldest records of his life (the New
Testament). If it was true there would be no reason for his first
followers to hide it. Also, being a Jew did not require being
married. The Jewish sect known as Essenes, like the one at Qumran,
which produced the Dead Sea Scrolls, were known to be celebate men.
There just is no historical reason to suppose Jesus was married.
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Gnostic source: Gospel of Philip
Inconclusive: seems to indicate that
Jesus kissed Mary Magdalene, but it does not say where, and it does not
indicate what special relationship, if any, he had to her.
"The companion of the [gap in
manuscript] Mary Magdalene [gap] more than [gap] the disciples [gap]
kiss her [gap] on her [gap]."
They said to him, "Why do you
lover her more than all of us?" The Savior answered and said to
them, "Why do I not love you like her?"
Unreliable: AD 250-300 -- It was written
at least 200 years after Jesus lived.
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 Spiritual
sense: Ephesians 5:25, 32
"Husbands love your wives, even as
Christ loved the Church and handed himself over for her, to sanctify
her, cleansing her by a bath of water and the word.
"This is a great mystery, but I
speak in reference to Christ and the Church."
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Jesus is Married to His Bride, the Church
Jesus 'marriage' to the Church is the
reason Matrimony is a Catholic Sacrament. Sacraments are basically
effective symbols of grace, and as a symbol, the love between husbans
and wives in Christian marriage is a sign of Christ's love for the
Church.
Jesus could not partake of symbol
(marriage to a woman) if He is part of reality being symbolized (His
marriage to the Church).
He could not have been married to Mary
Magdalene since He is already married to the Church.
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