Why would people be so quick to believe a Church conspiracy to hide facts about Christ & his possible family?
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Well... the church has a history of hiding the facts that question their stance. This question of the church coverups has come up most recently because of the release of some new gospels, and their messages went in the face of much of the churches opinions and beliefs. The difficult thing is that these new gospels were kept from being in the bible by church officials over a thousand years after Christs death. The gospels in question were discarded during the cutting process. This could be looked at ascovering up the truth of Christ. As for the validity of Jesus having a wife and children, well, time may tell.
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Primarily it is Protestant catholic bashers who believe this, though there is a tradition of this belief in the Greek Orthodox church.  A fameous, scandalous telling of the tale (titled "Pope Joan") was translated to English by Lawrence Durrell, who, as an author, excelled in scandalous tales of incest, etc.  \n\nThe tale persists without historical backup because anything that raises doubt about the validity of apostolic succession in the Roman Catholic church will delight someone who dislikes the RC church.\n\nOne of the reasons for believing it's probably not true is that the allegation of the event doesn't appear in the historical record until 4-500 years after it allegedly occurred.  It's hard to believe that a 'pope' giving birth during a procession would have gone unremarked for hundreds of years, and then conveniently been noticed along with the development of Protestantism.\n\nI'm not a Catholic myself, just someone who hates to see religious prejudice rear its ugly head in our world.
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It's not a weird notion.  There is no evidence of a lot of things that transpired during the times of Christ.   Sure the Bible talks about it and is the ONLY accepted history of that time.   I'm inclined to think that the apostles did run with their interpretation of Christ's teachings.   I'm not so sure it was to create an alternate Jewish religion, but an alternate politically correct on of the time.   Jesus didn't come to Earth to have people worship him as God.  That was furthest from his teachings.  His teachings were to show people the way to the Father through his teachings.  Even the perverstion of "The only way to heaven is through Christ."   It simply means that to get to heaven is to be like Christ and follow his teachings.   It does not mean to worship him as God.   Never has, never did, never will.
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It's an invention of the R.C Church. They then called it a mystery to avoid any discussion or debate on the subject.
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Ok, the book is about a 2000 year old secret that the church hid.  The secret is that Jesus was Married to Marry Magdaline, and the church made her out to be a prostitute to slander her image.  The book (and thereby the movie) is fiction, but it's based on the claims and theories of prominant historians and Biblical scholars.  The story gives you some interesting food for thought.  The reason that it's so contraversial is Christians find the whole idea of Jesus being a sexual person with a wife and children appalling, yet they can't disprove the claims.  The claims and theories may be true or they may be false, but the idea that the church has been lying for nearly 2000 years frightens some people and outrages others.  'If the church was lying about that,' they think 'what else could they have lied about?'  This frighten's the church authority.  If people stop beliving in the authority of the church, many church authorities will soon be out of a job.  Others belive that without a church authority to look up to, people will begin behaving like animals.  Most people just look at it as a great book (movie) with topics that may or may not be true.
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Because if he would have reveled to them the secret of his parables they would have seen and heard and been converted do to the simplicity that is in Christ. So they and many still today are made blind to the truth.
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I think there is a possibility that Jesus got married and had children but as for Religious groups covering it up - no.
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Dude, you've been smoking too many Dan Brown books. \n\n\nI've heard all kinds of crazy theories about Jesus but that doesn't mean they're true. Where's the documentation? Where's the historical proof? Where's the corroboration from witnesses? That's the problem with too many people: They hear something totally out in left field and believe it without any sort of evidence or even despite evidence to the contrary.
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Because each faith has changed it to whatever they want to believe.  The original scripture has been translated so many times incorrectly that I doubt it bears even the smallest resemblance to the actual wording.  And whenever anyone tries to give insight into that, the Christians persecute them, not wanting to alter the beliefs they've held for so long even if it means getting the truth.  Sad.
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I think I know the answer to this question just by looking at the other posters. Because christians are liars as well!!! I bet you anything most have heard of Lee strobel and deny it because thier credibility is in jepordy
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It is BUNK, a money making scheme, a lie from Satan himself, bent on casting doubt into hearts about the truth of Jesus and his promise to save any and all who even believe on HIS hame for salvation.  CHeck out one of His followers, a well educated Christian, who has done his homework.  If you are irreligious, this guy is for you to hear, because  he tells it like it is, so don't be afraid....see religion is man reaching up to God and getting nowhere, but Dr. James Kennedy shars Jesus' words and teaches salvation, GOd reaching down to man through Jesus, His only Son.  Who would love you enough to die for you?  Only Jesus.  IF you believe Jesus and his promise to save you, HE ALONE MUST BE FOUND FAITHFUL TO DO WHAT HE HAS SAID, so it only makes sense to believe the one who rose again...this is truth....HE is thr truth, the only way to the Father and eternal life.  Check him out! (And Dr. Kennedy too).\n\nThis week on The Coral Ridge Hour Dr. Kennedy debuts The Da Vinci Delusion, a documentary produced to coincide with the release of the The Da Vinci Code film. This documentary refutes the fraudulent historical claims made in Dan Brown's book and movie. With the help of world-renowned scholars, Dr. Kennedy will show definitively that the historical claims made by Brown are blatantly false and that the faith of Christian believers today is truly "the faith which was once delivered unto the saints."
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People believe this because the Christian religion tells them it's true.  Also, it's convenient to have someone take the rap for your mistakes.
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coz it's holy! and it comes from Jesus... they just wanna keep it secret ^^
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Its not ok to lie , maybe that's what they are doing to get people to join their church
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Because people are not ready to accept the facts what is happening in their real life. Having so much of desire beyond their limits and they want to get it by crooked way, and sometimes coincidentally it happens they started believing it strongly.
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Because they ignore the facts on what actually did happen at that time . . . \n\nPlus, not all christians today believe what the Council decreed . . . some denominations are trying to weed out the dogma and other teachings to try to get at the truth.  Unfortunately, there is no truth in religion  . . . because there is no God.
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The story is not true but many aspects of the book are true. There is an Opus Dei, there is a gospel of Phillip and Mary Magdalene, and a few others, almost certain Mary was not a prostitute but a disciple of Jesus, there is a Rose Line, and according to wikipedia, the Council of Nicaea DID convene to determine if Jesus was God, but the Priory of Sion was shown to be a hoax, and pretty sure Mary Magdalene is not buried at the entrance to the Louvre. It is very probably that Jesus, being a normal Jewish man, would've been married, however, there's really no way to know whether or not Jesus had a child. So believe what you will, just know that the Catholic Church has a remarkable tendency to hide the truth to suit its own needs.