From my understanding of the article, while this artifact was originally dated by the University of Arizona as being from around the time of Jesus, this date was updated with more recent tests to about 700-800CE in Egypt. I agree that I am not sure a document, even an authentic one, from this time period will create too much unrest without the corroborating evidence to go along with it. I am sure you will get some of the vocal fundamentalists out screaming about it, but for a majority of Christians, they will either
A: Deny the accuracy of the information, claiming that one note from 800 years after the fact is not enough to overturn current academic thoughts on whether Jesus was married.
B: Claim that married or not, Jesus is still the Son of God and that this does not affect their belief in anyway. In fact, after all the Dan Brown hysteria from fundamentalists, many people have opened up to the possibility that Jesus was married.
An interesting point: The discoverer is not claiming that this artifact even for sure means that Jesus was married, but that it could come from warring factions within the church during its beginning phases about whether or not women could become disciples of Christ. This could have an effect on the clergy in some churches that have until this time refused women in higher authority positions.
Source: TIME Magazine
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