How Likely Is It Jesus' Got Married

Whoa, wait a minute.... First you say that Jesus did not even exist, now you're telling me that Bilbo Baggins didn't either? If Bilbo didn't exist either, then who wrote, "A Hobbits Tale: There and back, by Bilbo Baggins."Sheesh!

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“Always be ready to give a defense to
everyone who asks you a reason for the
hope that is in you.” -1st Peter 3:15

I didn't say that. I said that both have approximately equal historical support.

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Yes. He was not just an ordinary Rabbi. Im truly human, and yet feel no need to get married. Heck, even communion with a woman is a challenge! Some say that Jesus was fully human just as we are. I would assert that Jesus was fully human yet was fully in communion with God, which no human that I have ever met is.Jesus was so fully devoted to His Bride....which includes all of us...that He would have no time to focus on but one significant other.

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“There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way” --C.S.Lewis

Exactly. If Jesus never faced that challenge, how could He be "fully human"?By the way, you do know that "communion with a woman" is a euphemism, don't you? And yet He had time to go to weddings, go fishing, etc.
You seem to have a low opinion of His multitasking skills. Personally, I think the idea that Jesus never "consorted" with women (another euphemism) is very misogynistic. Why else would the idea of Him touching a woman seem "dirty"?You might as well suggest that He never went to the bathroom.Edited by Ringo, : Spellling.

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Whether Jesus married or not...
if it sells paperbacks and popcorn, we're sure to hear more about it.

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Close to a thousand manuscripts written by an obscure sect survived from roughly the same time period. Odd how the more numerous Christian body failed to deliver. Too many missing periods in Jesus` life. Nothing on the deaths of the giants, Peter and Paul. Nothing on the subsequent proselytising and deaths of the apostles. Contradictions galore in the Gospels. Even the Jewish authorities thought it of so little moment, they couldn`t be bothered putting pen to papyrus. All those miracles and only the Christians noticed?

I wonder if the same uproar occurred when people started portraying Jesus as a pale European. That certainly wasn't in the Bible....

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"The good Christian should beware the mathematician and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of hell." - St. Augustine

I would hazard a guess that this is your personal opinion because it certainly isn't stated in the Bible.In fact, if Jesus was the fulfillment of the 'Suffering Servant' of Isaiah's Servant Songs (as Xians claim He is), then Jesus would have HAD to be a daddy.The servant would live to see his offspring:Isaiah 53:10Yet it was the LORD's will to crush him and cause him to suffer,
and though the LORD makes his life a guilt offering,
he will see his offspring and prolong his days,
and the will of the LORD will prosper in his hand. The 'offspring' referred to here is actual children, and not the metaphorical 'children' that Christians claim it means.Zerah, which is used for offsrping here, is never used metaphorically in the Hebrew Bible.So, Jesus would need to have had real children if He was the Suffering Servant of Isaiah 53 as Christians cliam he was.However, there are another two huge problems trying to fit Jesus into Isaiah 53. One is his fairly short life, it certainly wasn't a prolonged life as the servant was blessed with. Oh, it is an extended physical life as well, not some spiritual hocus pocus.The second, and biggest problem, is that Isaiah 53 is not even messianic.Brian.

I don't know, but there certainly is an uproar every time He is portrayed as an African. I would think if anybody ever represented Everyman, it should be Jesus. (And Everyman has children.)

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Dunno, with the present neurotic Christian preoccupation with sex (homophobia, abortion, birth control, celibacy, etc.), and digesting all that blood and bikkies in their ceremonies, there has to be a reluctance to give Jesus any qualities of the flesh. Contradicted by the fascination with a tortured body hanging on a cross. Ah, the wonderful world of the believer.

OH! So a guy who doesnt choose to get married or have kids is somehow less?That smacks of bias, if anything does!

well, maybe we should let the pagan fertility cults have their way!Oh yeah! Sex is normal...the more the better. Preoccupation with pleasure for pleasures sake! Heathens!

I don't like the blonde haired, blue-eyed version of Jesus for the same reason I don't like Negro Jesus-- both are counterintuitive. The Scriptures say that there was nothing in Jesus that people could physically see that would make us look at Him any differently from the common Jew walking around in the marketplaces of Jerusalem. Yeshua probably looked like most Jews back then: olive skin, brown eyes, brown hair, etc. He probably looked like your average 1st century Jew.

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“It is in vain, O' man, that you seek within yourselves the cure for all your miseries. All your insight has led you to the knowledge that it is not in yourselves that you will discover the true and the good.” -Blaise Pascal

Not less of a person or less of a man. But less representative of the human race.(Psst... that's what "Everyman" means, not "every man".)

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Thats what Jesus is, though. An anomoly. He is not representative of the human race, for the human race is imperfect and fallen.I think that Jesus never having been married or even of having relations with anyone is quite likely. The church didnt just dream that up.You have to quit believing these liberal scholars at these Jesus seminars without a clue as to the workings of the Holy Spirit. They are simply extrapolating their intellectual void.