Mary Magdelene - the wife of Jesus Christ?
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Dude, its waste of time to answer your question..
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no, this is one of the reasons I am against the inclusive language thing that allows one to call the Holy Spirit "She" . Mary has been known as spouse of the Holy Spirit for generations because it says that the Holy Spirit overshadowed Mary and she conceived a son. What else is this condoning but, homosexual marriage if they call the Holy Spirit "She". It is disgusting I think.
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In the movie, they say that Mary Magdalene was married to Jesus Christ and at the time of the Crucifixion she was pregnant. After the Crucifixion, she fled and gave birth to a daughter, named Sarah. Supposedly, Sophie Neveu was the last living descendant of Sarah. Therefore, making her a descendant of Jesus Christ.\n\nHopes this helps!!!!
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i am quite positive that he did. and i think it would be to mary magdalene, who by the way was NOT a prostitute. the prostitute who was stoned to death was not named. mary magdalene's name just came subsequently after the story of the prostitute so many people immediately assumed that she was the prostitute.\n\nmary magdalene may also have been a discipple of christ, and she supposedly has a book that was omitted from the bible (it's a man's world). there are even references in scripture that mary magdalene was the one who jesus would often kiss. \n\ni dont see why so many people are so offended by the idea that jesus christ was married. whether or not he was god, he came to earth to live as MAN. i mean to be so offended at the thought of a married jesus seems as though people think marraige is wrong. i mean marriage is supposed to be sacred to christians, why shouldn't jesus have done it?
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Well, we know two things that support the idea that Christ and Mary might have married and had children.  Firstly, at the time that Christ lived, Hebrew tradition strongly encouraged men to father children, as this would add strength to the Hebrew community and help to ensure that Abraham's bloodline last throughout the ages.  Secondly, according to Phillip's gospel, Christ and Mary had a romantic relationship.  Phillip makes several references to this, most notably: "Christ loved Mary more than all the disciples and used to kiss her often on the mouth."  So, yes, it is quite likely that they were married.  However, there are no historical records that clearly indicate children, though given Hebrew tradition, this posibility also remains.  There is also no hard evidence that Christ did not die on the cross.  All of the arguments related to a potential 'crucifixtion hoax' are circumstantial, at best.\n\nSide note:  The Da Vinci Code is a fiction novel, NOT a historical reference.  The book is a combination of historical facts and complete fabrications.  So, I fear that most people will have difficulty separating one from the other.
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"There were three who always walked with the Lord: Mary, his mother, and her sister, and Magdalene, the one who was called his companion. His sister and his mother and his companion were each a Mary."\n  \n\nWAS JESUS MARRIED TO MARY MAGDELAN?\n\nI am going to talk to you today about 2 things.\n\n1. Who sat next to Jesus at the Last Supper\n2. Was Jesus EVER MARRIED\n\n\nWhy talk about the last supper picture? If you look at the pictures carfully -- the person sitting at the left side of Jesus looks very much like it would be Mary Magdelan. \n\nSome say this must be the Wife of Jesus\nThey say "It is the positon of the WIFE to sit at the left side during supper time."\n\nThere are many different pictures of "The Last Supper"\n\n* Here is one picture:\n\nhttp://www.puzzlehistory.com/supper1a.jpg\n\n\n* Here is a picture from Leonardo Da Vinci:\n\nhttp://www.adherents.com/images/Leonardo_LastSupper.jpg\n\n* Here is a picture of Operah's Last Supper:\n\nhttp://www.cegur.com/oprah/LastSuppernew.jpg\n\nwhere operah depicts herself as Jesus...\n\n\nWHO IS ON THE LEFT SIDE OF JESUS?\nIS THAT JOHN? OR MARY MADGELINE?\n\nthe following is a close up on the picture of the person sitting to the Left of Jesus:\n\nhttp://www.da-vinci-code.nl/johanna.gif\n\n=======\n\nI think According to most art historians the persons is most probably the disciple John. In the 15th and 16th century it was very common to paint John beardless and feminine. Even now, the disciple John is painted without a beard in most cases.\n\nIn the Da Vinci Code a lot is being said about Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece The Last Supper. Dan Brown claims there are a lot of hidden messages hidden in the fresco, which is still on display in the Santa Maria Della Grazie church in Italy.\n\nRobert Langdon tells Sophie Neveu in the De Da Vinci Code that the person who sits next to Jesus is not the disciple John. It is in fact Mary Magdalene. Langdon explains that this is clearly visible because the person next to Jesus looks female.\n\nWHAT... MARY MAGDALENE?\n\nTrue? Untrue? It is hard to say anything about this. Leonardo da Vinci never said something bout it and we can't ask him why he painted John/Mary the way he did it.\n\nSOME BELIEVE THAT JESUS WAS MARRIED...\n\n"There were three who always walked with the Lord: Mary, his mother, and her sister, and Magdalene, the one who was called his companion. His sister and his mother and his companion were each a Mary."\n\nSome take this to mean that Marry Magdalene was the WIFE of Jesus.\n\nWHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT THIS?\n\nDID JESUS HAVE A WIFE?\n\nIt has long been believed that Jesus was single. Every detail of Scripture indicates this. When he was in ministry, there is no mention of a wife. When he was tried and crucified, there is no mention of his having a wife. After his death, there is no mention of a wife. Whenever Jesus' family is referred to, it is his brothers and sisters who are mentioned, but never a wife. Nor is there any indication that he was widowed.\n\nAttempts to suggest that any of the many women associated with his ministry were, in fact, his wife are empty speculation. This includes the woman with the alabaster container who anointed Jesus (read Luke 7:36-50). This woman's act was shocking and would not have been nearly so surprising had she been his wife.\n\nQuestion: If this woman was the wife of Jesus then WHY WERE THEY SHOCKED when she anointed Jesus?\n\nThe church was not embarrassed to reveal that its leaders were married-or to suggest that they had the right to be. The same would have been true of Jesus, if he had been married. READ (1 Corinthians 9:5)\n\nHere is the MAIN ARGUEMENT:\nIt is often suggested that because Jesus was a teacher and functioned like a rabbi that he would have been married as well, since that was the Jewish custom. Sometimes it is noted that the apostles called him 'rabbi' (Mark 11:21).\n\nTHE ARGUEMENT ABOVE
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As one opens a New Testament, he or she cannot get past the first page without confronting the doctrine of the virgin birth. The writer Matthew says: "When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found with child of the Holy Spirit" (Matthew 1:18). Joseph, perplexed over the fact that his wife-to-be was pregnant, was given this explanation by an angel in a dream: "Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit" (Matt. 1:20).\n\nAnother Gospel writer tells of Mary's pregnancy from her perspective. He tells how the angel Gabriel appeared to her to help prepare this young girl for the great event which would occur in her life. He told her, "And behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name Jesus" (Luke 1:31). Startled at such a thing, for she was a virgin, the angel continued: "The Holy Spirit shall come upon thee, and the power of the Most High shall overshadow thee: wherefore also the holy thing which is begotten shall be called the Son of God " (Luke 1:35).\n\nAll four of the Gospels assume the doctrine of the virgin birth; two of them give de- tails about it. And it is all the more amazing that one of these writers (i.e., Luke) is a physician whose training and experience would incline him to deny the possibility of such a birth. Careful historian that we know Luke to have been, he investigated thoroughly and affirmed without hesitation that Jesus of Nazareth was born of a virgin.\n\nSome seven hundred or more years before the birth of Jesus, the Holy Spirit had moved the prophet Isaiah to foretell the miraculous birth of the Messiah. "Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel" (Isaiah 7:14). Skeptics have tried to eliminate the phenomenon of predictive prophecy from the Bible, but this and many other divinely revealed predictions - all of which came to pass - make their efforts futile.\n\nIsaiah predicted the virgin birth, New Testament writers recorded its occurrence, and it stands as a sign from God as to the identity of Jesus of Nazareth as the Son of God and Savior of the world.
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I believe Christ was truly God and truly man, so yes it is very possible that he had a carnal relationship. It does not bother me if it is proved he had a wife.
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she is  the mother of Jesus  who is considered one of the most important prophets of Islam.\nquran respected her as a mother of jesus \nthe nineteenth chapter of the Qur'an is named after her and is about her life.\nAccording to the Qur'an, Mary's father was Nabi Imran and her mother is unnamed\n The mother of Mary, said: "O my Lord! I do dedicate into Thee what is in my womb for Thy special service: So accept this of me: For Thou hearest and knowest all things." (Qur'an 3:35). When Mary was delivered, she said: "O my Lord! Behold! I am delivered of a female child!" (Qur'an 3:36). She had expected her baby to be a male child \n\nThe Qur'an quite decisively declares that Jesus was the result of a virgin birth\nSura 5 Signs 116-119 of The Qur'an includes the Prophecy of the Judgement Day where "Jesus son of Mary" will be questioned by God as regards those who worship him and Mary, and that Jesus will deny them\n\nHoly Virgin Mary is regarded as the best woman that ever came on the face of the Earth. There are several verses in the Quran that praise her and confirm that she was an extremely chaste and pious woman. Mary is also the Queen of All Women in Heaven.
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Well apart from being Jesus' love, Mary was a disciple and she was one of the inner circle. She was extremely intelligent, and many considered this unusual and didn't like her for it. I think much injustice has been done to her. The Catholic church has admitted that calling her a prostitute was an error (bible doesn't say this either), and now she's a saint. But she must be more than a saint and time will set things straight.
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Definitely fiction. Sorry for the lengthy explanation. It's cut and pasted from a ChristianityToday article. See link below.\n1. Was Jesus married to Mary Magdalene?\nNo. Mary Magdalene was certainly close to Jesus. She wept at Jesus' tomb (John 20). Jesus even entrusted her to return and tell the disciples about his resurrection. But we have no reason to believe they were married. Brown says that Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper reveals the secret. He writes that the figure to Jesus' right, traditionally known as the apostle John, is actually Mary. Not true. Artists often gave characters feminine features to portray youth. John was the youngest of the disciples.\n\nBrown correctly observes that few Jewish men of Jesus' day did not marry. But why, then, did the apostle Paul, himself celibate, not mention Jesus and Mary when he argued that apostles could marry (1 Cor. 9:5)?\n\n2. What about these alternative gospels that aren't in the New Testament?\nIt's true that the Bible did not arrive as a "fax from heaven," as Brown writes. The New Testament canon in its current form was first formally attested in 367. Nevertheless, church leaders applied important standards when compiling the Bible. Authors of accepted writings needed to have walked and talked with Jesus, or at least with his leading disciples. Their teaching could not contradict what other apostles had written, and their documents must have been accepted by the entire church, from Jerusalem to Rome. Church leaders considered earlier letters and reports more credible than later documents. Finally, they prayed and trusted the Holy Spirit to guide their decisions. \n\nThe so-called Gnostic gospels, many discovered just last century, did not meet these criteria. Many appeared much later than the Bible and were dubiously attributed to major Christian leaders. Their teachings contrasted with what apostles like Paul had written. For example, many Gnostic writings argued that Jesus did not appear in the flesh, because flesh is evil, or they rejected the Old Testament. \n\n3. Were there really competing Christianities during the early church?\nYes—in the sense there were many disputes about the nature of Jesus. And the church has done its best to vanquish challengers to orthodoxy. Once the church decided against the Gnostic writings, they gathered and burned all the Gnostic manuscripts they could find. \n\nLater church councils convened to discuss other threats to Christian orthodoxy. Constantine, the first Roman emperor to make Christianity legal, called the most important of these meetings in 325. Leaders from around the Christian world gathered in Nicea, where they debated Arianism, which taught that God created Jesus. Brown writes that Constantine called this council so he could introduce a new divine Jesus on par with the Father. On the contrary, documents from before Nicea show that most followers of Jesus already called him LORD, the Yahweh of the Old Testament. The church leaders at Nicea rejected Arianism and affirmed that God and Jesus existed together from the beginning in the Trinity. This council produced the first drafts of what became the Nicene Creed, a landmark explanation of Christian belief. \n\n4. What is Opus Dei?\nA conservative religious group within the Roman Catholic Church. Opus Dei urges priests and laypeople to strenuously pursue sanctification through everyday discipline. The group has taken criticism for its conservative views, zeal, and secretive practices. There is no evidence that Opus Dei has resorted to murder; nor has the Vatican entrusted Opus Dei to violently guard the church's deepest secrets, as Dan Brown claims in The Da Vinci Code. \n\n5. Does the Priory of Sion really exist?\nYes, but not as described by Brown. Researchers suspect that members of the real-life Priory of Sion, founded in 1956, forged documents that placed major historical figures—such as Isaac Newton and Leonard da Vinci—in
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Hang on sir. :)\nThe Madonna (Mary) was Jesus's mother. She was not a wife to anyone because she was not married.\n\nThrough God, she gave birth to Jesus.\n\nIm not sure why you think this could be another name for Islam?!
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there are certain things that have been omitted from the bible to serve the purpose of the catholic church. i think that jesus did throw down with mary magdolin(spelling may be off) there are rumors that he did have children. i don't believe that he was anything more than a man who got some attention in the mis written annuals of time. \ni'm the recovering catholic
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Mary went to visit her cousin Elizabeth when she was first pregnant.  She was the mother of John the Baptist
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cdf-rom: You are a lunatic. No one is trying to sway people away from the faith. Seriously. If you honestly believe that is a real motive for anyone, anywhere in this whole Magdalene/DVC controversy, then you suffer from paranoid delusions and need to get your head checked. \n\nIt just seems weird to a lot of people, myself included, that so many Christians (not all, but a lot) went totally apesh*t over the mere suggestion of Jesus acting like a normal guy of his times.\n\nI really like Mary Magdalene, always have. Never cared much for the Madonna, though. What did she do, really? She had a kid, supposedly while a virgin (not actually true, see Hebrew version of Isaiah 7:14, definitely says young woman, not virgin). So, basically she had a kid. Which is what the "Church Fathers" believed was all women were really good for, anyway. So their number one female figure is a girl whose biggest accomplishment is getting knocked up.\n\nNow take a look at this passage from the Pistis Sophia, referring to Mary Magdalene:\nJesus, the compassionate, answered and said to Mariam:\n"Mariam, thou blessed one, whom I will complete in all the mysteries of the height, speak openly, thou art she whose heart is more directed to the Kingdom of Heaven than all thy brothers."\n\nYeah, she was bright, she got was Jesus was saying, apparently more than his other (male) disciples. And that's nothing compared to the Gospel of Mary (go look it up). So I figure, why not have the female co-star of Christianity be Jesus's wife instead of his mother? She was actually an intelligent woman, rather than just a pregnant one. Aren't we a little past the 'barefoot in the kitchen' era?
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Rev Kip and martin s have very good answers but we do not know that this is the Salome that showed up at the tomb. Christ had an earthly sister named Salome also who is not the one they speak of and is more than likely the one to show up at the tomb. Mary Magdalene, Mary (Jesus' mother), and Salome were the ones who went to Christs tomb to put spices and oils on him. So it depends on what Salome you are talking about.
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For Christians (especially Catholics), I guess you could say Mary, the Mother of Jesus.  From a purely secular (yet still hopelessly Western point of view) I guess you could say either Queen Elizabeth or Queen Victoria, both of England.  Queen Elizabeth built the English Empire, harrassed the Spanish to no end, built up the Americas, helped to make England solidly Protestant and executed Mary, Queen of Scots.\nQueen Victoria made a move for popular sexual repression and almost a fear of sexuality, distinctly Protestant in its origins.  This type of sexual repression led to men like Freud, who in turn altered modern society, and perhaps has led us to be an over-sexed society, that might have even made Freud cringe.