Did Jesus and Mary Magdeline have children or were they just close friends?
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Jesus was a good little jew boy and always did what his mother told him. Joseph was just his stepdad. He was expected to be married with children by the time he was 26, so I would guess he was married and had children. To do otherwise would be irreligious. I do not know if you were aware of it but Jesus was a very religious person. Breeding was an absolute requirement of religiousity. The jewish bible said to go forth and multiply. If your brother died before having children, you were required by law to knock up his ol lady. Better hope she was cute.\nIt was the later perverted priests of the false religion formed after Jesus that gave credence to the theory that Jesus was a celibate male because the Wierd Gay priests hated women and thought that you could not be holy if you defiled yourself with female contact. So they invented the myth that Jesus was celibate and that all priests should follow suit. We now know that is hogwash to cover up the fact they are mostly gay guys and always were. Take a look at those clothes the pope and the cardinals wear man. is that gay or what?\nThe reason the "bible" does not mention it is because it was a collection of old Jewish books that were written long before Jesus was born.\nYes the new testament portion of the so-called bible was added to it by the new religion of the followers of Christ AFTER he dies, BUT those too were just the writings and ramblings of the few people that had met and known Jesus during his brief period of life. These were called "gospels", meaning good news. But some of the people that knew jesus duing his time wrote books about it did not get included in the new religion "bible' because the gay priests got together and voted them out because they did not like the messages. the messages of the other gospels are completely in accord with the notion that jesus probably had a wife and child and she was Mary Magdalene\n(not his Mom for Chrisakes, he was not incestuous) It was the Mary Magdalene that hung out with him and the guys like a groupie. Sort of like Yoko Ono. She was his favorite and the other desciples were always complaining about her . These complaints were recorded in their "gospels" too and that is why they were left out by the new Church that was trying to establish a religion that they could control the world with.\nThey had a big meeting together of all the church leaders from around the old world and decided by VOTE to exclude many gospels, and burn them, and kill anyone who mentioned them as heretics and then they proceeded to do so.\n\nAmong these were the gospels of Mary( of course) and Phillip, and Thomas and some other works of note that explained many things. It is all available on the net at NAG HAMMADI LIBRARY in Egypt. A few copies and fragments were unearthed about 35 years ago, translated and are available for anyone who cares to read them.\nit is a shame that the friends of Jesus who knew him best were not allowed to tell anyone what they knew. But that is the way of the world of organized religion, something jesus did not really like. he was like a guru with desciples who were each supposed to spread the word by mouth to individuals who would each in turn spread it to others like a big AMWAY. But they killed him and  squelched his efforts.\n\nThe Mary that jesus loved and probably married, was NOT the whore named Mary mentioned in some bible verse as a person he helped, She was another Mary (Marys? hoodathunkit)\nI guess Mary was a common name back then too. The Church Fathers deliberately decided to discredit this Good Mary by spreading the misinformation that she was this whore. They later confessed to this canard about 30 years ago and apologized to the world but everyone still mistakenly believes that the Mary that Came to see Jesus on the cross and later got his body and took it to a tomb and washed it, like a good little wife, and was the first one he appeared to, was the whore. This was meant t
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Matthew and John the beloved one.
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The Blessed Virgin Mary is the mother of Jesus Christ, the mother of God. \nFundamentalists are sometimes horrified when the Virgin Mary is referred to as the Mother of God. However, their reaction often rests upon a misapprehension of not only what this particular title of Mary signifies but also who Jesus was, and what their own theological forebears, the Protestant Reformers, had to say regarding this doctrine. \n\nA woman is a man’s mother either if she carried him in her womb or if she was the woman contributing half of his genetic matter or both. Mary was the mother of Jesus in both of these senses; because she not only carried Jesus in her womb but also supplied all of the genetic matter for his human body, since it was through her—not Joseph—that Jesus "was descended from David according to the flesh" (Rom. 1:3). \n\nSince Mary is Jesus’ mother, it must be concluded that she is also the Mother of God: If Mary is the mother of Jesus, and if Jesus is God, then Mary is the Mother of God. There is no way out of this logical syllogism, the valid form of which has been recognized by classical logicians since before the time of Christ. \n\nAlthough Mary is the Mother of God, she is not his mother in the sense that she is older than God or the source of her Son’s divinity, for she is neither. Rather, we say that she is the Mother of God in the sense that she carried in her womb a divine person—Jesus Christ, God "in the flesh" (2 John 7, cf. John 1:14)—and in the sense that she contributed the genetic matter to the human form God took in Jesus Christ. \n\nTo avoid this conclusion, Fundamentalists often assert that Mary did not carry God in her womb, but only carried Christ’s human nature. This assertion reinvents a heresy from the fifth century known as Nestorianism, which runs aground on the fact that a mother does not merely carry the human nature of her child in her womb. Rather, she carries the person of her child. Women do not give birth to human natures; they give birth to persons. Mary thus carried and gave birth to the person of Jesus Christ, and the person she gave birth to was God. \n\nThe Nestorian claim that Mary did not give birth to the unified person of Jesus Christ attempts to separate Christ’s human nature from his divine nature, creating two separate and distinct persons—one divine and one human—united in a loose affiliation. It is therefore a Christological heresy, which even the Protestant Reformers recognized. Both Martin Luther and John Calvin insisted on Mary’s divine maternity. In fact, it even appears that Nestorius himself may not have believed the heresy named after him. Further, the church he founded has now signed a joint declaration on Christology with the Catholic Church and recognizes Mary’s divine maternity, just as other Christians do. \n\nSince denying that Mary is God’s mother implies doubt about Jesus’ divinity, it is clear why Christians (until recent times) have been unanimous in proclaiming Mary as Mother of God\n\n\nTHE FACT OF THE ASSUMPTION\n\nRegarding the day, year, and manner of Our Lady's death, nothing certain is known. The earliest known literary reference to the Assumption is found in the Greek work De Obitu S. Dominae. Catholic faith, however, has always derived our knowledge of the mystery from Apostolic Tradition. Epiphanius acknowledged that he knew nothing definite about it . The dates assigned for it vary between three and fifteen years after Christ's Ascension. Two cities claim to be the place of her departure: Jerusalem and Ephesus. Common consent favours Jerusalem, where her tomb is shown; but some argue in favour of Ephesus. The first six centuries did not know of the tomb of Mary at Jerusalem. \n\nThe belief in the corporeal assumption of Mary is founded on the apocryphal treatise De Obitu S. Dominae, bearing the name of St. John, which belongs however to the fourth or fifth century. It is also found in the boo
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Jesus, Mary, and Joseph were not Merovingian. They were from the line of David, and were Jews who lived around 0 AD.\nI read your previous question. I don't know why you would think this; it's absurd. They were centuries apart. People didn't even HAVE last names back when Jesus was alive. They called you Nathaniel, son of David, or what-have-you. \nAccording to wiki, the Merovingians were a dynasty of Frankish kings who ruled a frequently fluctuating area in parts of the present-day Low Countries, France and Germany from the fifth to the eighth century. They were sometimes referred to as the "long-haired kings" (Latin reges criniti) by contemporaries, for their symbolically unshorn hair (traditionally the tribal leader of the Franks wore his hair long, while the warriors trimmed it short). The term is drawn directly from Germanic, akin to their dynasty's Old English name Merewīowing.
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Does the Bible ever mention any offspring of Jesus'?  You'd think that if the writers of the Bible were going to mention such detail as the lineage of all of the major kings, they'd mention something that important.  My guess would be no, he didn't have kids, and no, he wasn't gay, and no, he didn't marry Mary Magdalene, and no to all the other ridiculous rumors people make up because they just don't want to believe the truth.  Funny how people will believe a lie any day over the truth.
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Mary and Joseph did screw around,\nJames came from them and did abound.\nHe is Jesus brother, or half-brother if you will,\nThey had sex, yes, that's the deal.
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Mary & Joseph were "betrothed".  In the Jewish culture of that time a man & woman were promised to each other and then he set to make a home for them.  Once the man had a home & funds for his bride he would go and get her and there would be a wedding feast and they would be married and could consumate their marriage.  \n\nJoseph, after being visited by an angel, took Mary as his wife but did NOT consumate the marriage until after Mary's time of uncleaness after childbirth was complete.\n\nSo Mary was a virgin when she gave birth to the Messiah.  She also had at least 4 other children.  (Would anyone REALLY consider perpetual virginity a blessing?  Especially if you were Joseph?  "Yea Joseph, as a reward for you believing the angel, marrying a woman pregnant not with your child, and raising that child you can NEVER has sex with your wife or be blessed with children of your own"  Some blessing!)
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Mary is significant only in that God needed someone to give birth to His only begotten Son.  Putting any more importance on her than that is not scriptural, and erroneous.\n\nThis I believe; http://homelessheart.com/testimony.htm
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Of course not!  The book is just a fiction.  There’s actually no evidence to support a marriage of Jesus and Mary Magdalene. The Gnostic writings that suggest a special relationship between them were written at least a century after Jesus actually lived, and reflect, not the events of Jesus’ life, but the Gnostic interpretation of them. Mary functions as a symbol within those narratives, not as a historical person. \n\nThere are voluminous studies done on the myth and legend of the Grail. Mary Magdalene factors in exactly none of them. That association is a modern invention of 20th century pseudo-histories.
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Jesus may or may not have been married.\n\nMary certainly was.
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Mary, the mother of Jesus.  I'd love to know how to raise a good kid.
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if you read your the Bible then you will find that there is Mary the mother of Jesus , Mary Magdalen , and Mary the sister of Lazarus..so therefore there is three Marys that i remember............and they are all diffent people...
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It could be Mary - you never specify in the problem that she only has 4 kids.  She could have two dozen :)
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Mary, the mother of Jesus (Mat. 2:11)\nMary, the mother of James and John (Mat. 27:56)\nMary, the sister of Martha (John 11:1,2)\nMary Magdalene (Mat. 27:56)\nMary, the wife of Cleophas (John 19:25)\nMary, who was greeted by Paul (Rom. 16:6)
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Son of God.  the bible tells us that mary was a virgin therefore Joeph could not have been the father.
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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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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