Was Jesus Married?

Was he married? I don't know, the Bible is silent on it.

A seminary professor at NOBTS once said to us(20 years ago)

Where the Bible is silent----let US be silent, too!!!!


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I think it would cause all sorts of issues. Such as did he have children not being the least. It would cheapen his example to those called to be celebate. I honestly believe it would undermine christianity and not for just those reasons alone.

Lust is the same problem married or single.

 

If a pastor has to be the "husband of one wife", would Christ be unfit for the role of pastor?

 

No but the assumption of the question is that a pastor has to be a husband. There are single pastors that are fine that way.

Jesus in not unfit for anything but he came for a purpose and it wasn't just to be crusified to be raised but to be an example to be the fulfillment of the Word of God. God's entire word is complete in Jesus. That's not to say that he wants us to be celebate but it is to say that his purpose was for humanity as a whole. Can you imagine what the early church would have done with his family? There would be church counsils determining if his wife was raised to a certain level or that his children were partly divine. There would be no distinction between him and Pharaoh or the "divine emperor" of Rome. Divinity passed on. Then there would be a cast system of how much more Jesus loved his immediate family than the rest of humanity. The church is his bride. And by him being celebate he puts sexual relationships in their place. Take it or leave it you don't really have to have it.

 

There is also no place that says He wasn't gay, either.

or an alien...

or a time traveler...etc, ad infinitum...

Your question has been answered - Christ is the Bridegroom - the Church is the Bride.

Take every thought captive, brother, and use your mind to glorify God, not in vain speculation.

Some questions are not worth asking.

 

Amen, Amen and Amen.

 

Yes that is true.

 

So you think in order for their to be a marriage there must be a sexualy relatioship? What about people who can not have a sexualy relatioship, and yet someone loves them enough to want to be with them, sees value in them without sex? I guess they aren't married.

 

I agree with what RevMitchell posted here. Even wondering if Christ was married and had sex seems a fairly stupid waste of time.

 

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http://www.markdroberts.com/htmfiles/resources/jesusmarried.htm

 

But if what you seem to imply were correct, (i.e. that it doesn't matter one way or the other), why start a thread about it?

 

Has anyone stated that they are afraid? And how do you know that the replies to your post are "emptional, knee-jerk responses" (to use your phrase)?

 

Nothing to do with "comfort zones". As many have already said, there is a bride of Christ mentioned in the bible, and He calls Himself "the Bridegroom". Yet in none of those instances is there the slightest implication that He was talking of have taken one lady to be His wife. To believe that Jesus married to an individual lady, it would be necessary to add to the bible.

 

Actualy, we're not afraid at all. We're not afraid of new ideas. The idea that Jesus was married is a very old idea. Dan Brown and others like him just simply used it to spread their own brand of pagan, anti-Biblical philosophy.

 

True, and also the little detail that there is no historical evidence of such a marriage.

 

I think the answer as to whom Jesus is married is answered in the following passage. Men are to love their wives as Jesus loved His : the CHURCH.

Ephesians 5
22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
30 For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church