Black Spirituality Religion : JESUS WAS MARRIED, SAYS BISHOP...

Radical Faith said:
...My question to you brother is have you found divine truth?
Yes.

Radical Faith said:
What I mean is...have you studied God's word, meditated on the meaning, and prayed to God for understanding?
Yes.

Radical Faith said:
If you have done those things and GOD has provided your answers there will be no book, scholar or historian that can tell you different...
True...however, God provides answers through books (e.g., The Bible, the Holy Qur'an, the Baghavad Gita, the Hindu Vedic Scriptures and other holy books of the world), in addition to scholars and historians (e.g., Bishop Spong)...

Radical Faith said:
Brother, ask God to give you spiritual sight and spiritual knowledge. Matters of the flesh will pass away, but the spirit is eternal.
I believe in what the great Prophet Jesus said:

“Do not make long prayers asking God for foolish things. He knows what is good for you better than you do, and He needs no prompting to keep Him interested. When you pray, try to understand what God wants from you; it is much more important than what you want from God.”

(The Essene Gospel of Peace)
 
Brother you are right God communicates to us in ways for us to understand via books and messangers. His commands are clear, But also we need a personal relationship with God. God blesses us immeasureable. And when asked God will guide your step when facing choices. What I'm talking about is when you go to that place inside your and commune with God and hear God's voice with a message for you. That's way more special and endearing. No prayer is frivelous, God gives what you need. What you need is always the best thing for. Brother continue to seek the truth and strive for perfection. Don't sweat the small stuff.
 
Kannte: said:
Was Mary Magdalene the wife of Prophet Jesus?
Bishop James Spong speculates that Jesus may have been married. And of course, he says, the woman he was married to was Mary Magdalene, whom the church has painted with a wide-scarlet brush down through the centuries.

Bishop Spong says that such negative views of Mary Magdalene are pure nonsense. "The only indications that Mary Magdalene even had problems," he says, "are a short Gospel passage that says she was a sinner and another passage that says Jesus cast seven demons out of the woman."

But Bishop Spong sees other positive indications that Mary Magdalene could have been the wife of Jesus. For instance, when the Gospel writers list the contingent of women who followed Jesus and the disciples from town to town, Mary Magdalene is always mentioned first.

Given the many prohibitions on single Jewish women in those days, Bishop Spong says that the women following Jesus could have been mothers, wives or prostitutes. Bishop Spong thinks that Peter and some of the other disciples had wives who followed along. What then was the role of Mary Magdalene?

The Bible says the women “provided for them out of their means.” And in every account Mary Magdalene is the central figure. Even at the tomb after the crucifixion, the focus is on Mary Magdalene. She tells an angel inside the tomb that someone has taken away her “Lord,” which would have been a common reference to a husband in those days, Bishop Spong says. And when she sees a mysterious figure outside the tomb whom she believes is a gardener, she lays claim to the body of Jesus which, of course, would be the duty of a man’s wife.

He talks about the narrative that describes the moment after the resurrection when Jesus sees Mary and greets her by name. Mary responds, “Rabboni,” an intimate reference to Jesus’ teaching role. Apparently, Mary then moves toward Jesus to embrace him, and Jesus says, “Do not embrace me” or: “Do not cling to me.” In Orthodox Jewish sects, the bishop says, women did not embrace men unless they were married – and then only in the privacy of their homes.

Bishop Spong contends that the wedding at Cana in Galilee was actually the wedding of Jesus and Mary Magdalene. The bishop notes that the only likely time that Jesus’ mother and all of his friends would be at the same wedding was when Jesus himself got married. And he wonders why Jesus’ mother became so upset when the wine was running low. Probably because she was the hostess of her own son’s wedding.

Bishop Spong charges that the real Mary Magdalene was excised from holy stories as a way of denying women their true sexual nature. “By the turn of the 1st century, there was in the life of the Christian church a clear need to remove Mary Magdalene, the flesh-and-blood woman who was at Jesus’ side in life and in death, and to replace her with a sexless woman, the virgin mother. The record of history is that this was accomplished by portraying Mary Magdalene as a prostitute...and thus assassinating her character...
 
Jesus, was probably married and/or a normal sexual being

Everything I have studied about the Levant, so-called Semitic or Middle-Eastern cultures of that part of the world and especially Jewish/Hebraic cultures of ancient Palestine, mentions it was practically unheard-of for a man to reach the age of 30 and not be married. If he was a single man, He (Jesus) would have seemed very strange and peculiar, in the context of Jewish culture.

We need to be careful in always accepting this spiritual celibacy idea, about Jesus and the priesthoods. As you see in the Catholic Church, this practice is being revealed and exposed for its hypocrisy and irrelevance, this is more to do with the pious religiosity of early Christian zealots and some pre-Christian priesthoods, than true spirituality or religious culture. Most likely celibacy, in “some” ancient priesthoods, was probably achieved through castration or its equivalent; this is what Origen, (born in Africa) the most renowned early Christian scholar and theologian did to himself. And if you don’t think castration was a pervasive act in order to receive higher-results in the European world, then you need to consider the act of castrating young boys in the church choir in order to produce castratos, was a well-known practice and is well documented.

Also, in order to understand some deeper meaning, to some ancient religious stories, we have to understand about, what historians call “sacred prostitutes and temple virgins”. The word virginity and prostitution didn’t always carry the same meaning, as transliterated by the church and laymen of medieval Europe.

Peace :)
 

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