Christ / Mary Magdalene ( question )

[Gabriela]

​at least you have attempted to give an answer instead of resorting to a slow witted analogy,  and  just flat out ignoring the rest of what I posed .

So far I can not find any good sources explaining why our Faith would not exist, if Christ was married, using the word intimate is a wish washy word in this context an just side stepping the term sexual relationship ( because intimate does not have to a have a sexual undertone/meaning ).

Society has tried to " taint " the faith with this image, but to me it seems like a weak attack, to suggest Christ even being attracted to a woman first would be a bad / negative reality ,an second that Christ being in a relationship * dating * or even married would some how bastardize the faith again seems to me be pointing a finger and mocking something that is positive and trying to say it is a negative.

An to turn around and eventually say well Christ created the Church which is true, but to then scoff at the idea of Christ ever being married to an actual woman, but to turn around and personify the Church is some how fine, when the Church is not ever one single person or even feminine to begin with. Just seems odd.

Why wouldn't the Church want to see Christ married and have that support for marriage in general ?

 

 

I think the Church, and Christians in general, get all up in a roar over this issue because we know deeply—if not always consciously—that Christ's very person is the center of our Faith. Marriage and sexual union change a person's person (for lack of a better phrasing). So the suggestion that a fundamentally different Christ could still be our Christ just sounds ludicrous to us.​ I mean, this is not like asking, "What if Jesus had gone barefoot instead of wearing sandals?" That wouldn't fundamentally alter our Faith. But to suggest that Jesus was in some kind of exclusive relationship with somebody just seems... banal. Cf. KoC's post.

 

​now I want to know why I am not a " Church Militant " forget my original post on this altogether.

From what I'm told, ​"Church Militant" tags tend to get assigned based on who likes you. If CMs like you, they'll vote you into their group. If you don't already have a foot in, well...

[CatherineM]

I remember teaching RCIA the year the Da Vinci Code came out.  No, I haven't personally met an Opus Dei assassin. 

As to Jesus being a real man, therefore having a chick, it wouldn't destroy the Church.  Rabbi's were actually expected to have a wife.  St. Peter left his family to follow Jesus, so Jesus could have done the same.  The Church doesn't teach that, and I don't believe that happened, but if it were somehow proven in the future, it wouldn't destroy my faith.  If he had kids, that would be cool for my personally since I'm descended from the same family from the Da Vinci Code. 

[Nihil Obstat]

 

From what I'm told, ​"Church Militant" tags tend to get assigned based on who likes you. If CMs like you, they'll vote you into their group. If you don't already have a foot in, well...

​@dUst, I nominate Gabriela for Church Militant. Can we still do that?

 

Edit: Maybe, but apparently we cannot tag people anymore.  @dUSt
Or maybe we can. Weird.

Edited April 14, 2015 by Nihil Obstat

[Gabriela]

​@dUst, I nominate Gabriela for Church Militant. Can we still do that?

 

Edit: Maybe, but apparently we cannot tag people anymore.  @dUSt
Or maybe we can. Weird.

​Where's the blushing emoticon?