Prophet ISSA, Jesus---Why was he single??? Not married?

[gurey25]

basra even if mary was a prostitute it does not mean that she was an important disciple and one of the leaders of the early community,
even a wife of jesus.
it will show that anyone can be redeemed no matter what they were and what they did,
and show gods majesty and love..
it would be an even more beautiful story in my opinion.

[Basra-]

basra even if mary was a prostitute it does not mean that she was an important disciple and one of the leaders of the early community,
even a wife of jesus.
it will show that anyone can be redeemed no matter what they were and what they did,
and show gods majesty and love..
it would be an even more beautiful story in my opinion.

Gurey


exactly we both agree. My point was that Mary was an ex prostitute who was redeemed by Jesus. She served as a redeeming symbol in Gods mercy via his prophet. That was what I was telling Grant. Grant wants to imagine, Mary was a wife and a favorite leader disciple. He is projecting what he wants or what humans want.

For me--the poignant question is--most prophets married--why didn't jesus marry too?????

[BeyondQabil]

Mhhh...

You shocked me Basra

Habari Yako Beyond


In what way have I 'shocked' u?

Nzuri sana Mrembo. Rudi nyumbani.

I'm shocked that you've given Grant a well-deserved lashing. I thought your highness would be gentler on the young man.

[BeyondQabil]

Basra and Xplaya,

The notion that Mary was a prostitute was an early attempt to discredit women as leaders in the Church. Paul was a nut on the subject and did everything in his power to restore the dominance of men. This was acknowledged by the Catholic Church in 1969. In fact, Mary was a major producer and wealthy merchant in the dried fish coming from the Sea of Galilee. She financed many of the early missionary trips. Check out this site:

You're peddling nonsense. Jesus never Married and what you're telling us is Conjecture. Any fool can start a site and claim that grant is Somali.

[Basra-]

Beyond,

Lashing? Explain? I don't think I lashed at poor Grant. He is adorable indeed. All I was pointing out is his fallacy. I follow facts, not conjecture.


LOL@rudi nyumbani! Why?

[Grant]

You guys,,,,,

http://newlife.id.au/equality-and-gende ... magdalene/
http://www.thenazareneway.com/mary_magdalene.htm
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread835452/pg1

"[11] There is nothing in the Bible which indicates that Jesus and Mary were married, or had children together. Considering Jesus’ ministry, including his redemptive death and return to the Father forty days later, I think it is unlikely that he would have chosen to marry and have a family."

Paul and others, and the translators of the Bible, all worked to denigrate Mary as a leader. When the Catholic Church admitted this in 1969 it became necessary to reevaluate.

"On the 14 September 591 Pope Gregory the Great delivered a homily on the Gospel of Luke in which he argued that the sinful woman, who while dining at Simon’s house washes Jesus’s feet with her tears, was in fact Mary Magdalene. With this commentary, Pope Gregory changed the perception of Mary and she was relegated from most ‘dearly beloved’ of all Jesus’s disciplines to the station of a common whore."

"In 1896, a papyrus was discovered bearing the title the Gospel of Mary, it elicted little attention, until 50 years later when the Nag Hammadi, or Gnostic Gospels were discovered and it was then translated. It showed quite clearly, as alluded to in the accepted texts of the New Testament, that Mary was at least the equal of the other Apostles, if not the one who best understood their master’s teachings. With the Pistis Sophia, we gain even further insight into the dynamics of the relationship between the disciples and Jesus, and find that Mary is most dominant in the questioning of Christ, and he bestows her responses with the highest of praise."

"In a social context, Gregory as a Pope returned the papacy, and the Roman Church, to patriarchy. The intrusion of the Germanic peoples, whose lore greatly {emphasized} the feminine, {in} upon Roman culture did not sit well with Gregory, and he set about suppressing heretical beliefs in the wider church, most particularly in Africa, and amongst the Anglo-Saxons. The first three centuries of Christianity had in many ways, marked a spiritual and intellectual emancipation of women, that over the course of the middle-ages would, quite ruthlessly be suppressed. The early female teachers of Christianity, like Mary, Junia, Priscilla, and Thecla, were at first utilised as a conversion tool, as was the Virgin Mary, to supplant to Mother of All, but increasingly, from Gregory’s papacy, women were portrayed as the originators of sin, and imperfect because of the female form. God after all made man in his own image, and increasingly man was seen as the ‘head of woman’, and woman incapable of rational thought. In such a social landscape, how could the image of Mary Magdelene as most worthy of Jesus’s attention be allowed to pervade? "

You have misread me. What I objected to was Xplaya and Basra calling her a whore. Even the Catholic Church has acknowledged the slander.