Sheesh.
On the other hand, I find it amazing how Ruth could embrace her mother-in-law's homeland, customs, family, and God. Reminds me of someone I love..
On still the other hand, I could not believe how some people could actually believe that Mary of Magdala was the wife of JESUS, MY LORD, MASTER and SAVIOR!
It's been two nights that I had been pondering how to answer that argument. While fixing my dishes earlier this evening, I came up with:
- God is a God of love. If Jesus impregnated Mary of Magdala even as He knew He was dying on the cross in a few months' time, that would be a pure act of selfishness. Why leave a widow, in a country like Israel, where, in those times, widows were social anathemas?! If Jesus cared even a tenth of how He loves the rest of us, surely He wouldn't leave a wife destitute and scorned like that!
- God is a HOLY God. If even MARRIED espiritistas could not have sex the night before they healed someone (source: Jaime Licauco's book, back when I was "searching," filched from memory), why would a HOLY God defile himself, even with a marriage to a woman who was a prostitute?! He knows that the woman would still pass on physical DNA that would still contain issues. That is just plain crazy if Jesus really did marry Mary Magdalene.
- Jesus, again, is a God of Love, a God of Justice. Would He allow us, and the women of His time to bicker if He chose a woman as a wife, supreme in position over the disciples and the rest of us?! If Peter could question Jesus about John's place in the Lord's heart, would they not question Mary of Magdala's position as the Lord's widow?! Then would Jesus actually allow that?!
- Also, a wife has her own interests to look after. Women tend to guard their children and their own properties. If Paul and Peter could still have personal issues even as they are the pioneer apostles of their time, even with the gift of the presence of the Counselor in them, would a wife, choked by the cares of this world, not nag Jesus? Would a widow not produce bitter children as bitterness would sometimes creep into her heart when her flesh makes her forget His role and His sovereignty? "Why did my husband leave me?! To save the human race! What foolery! What will I feed these children now?!"
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Many syncretistic religions formed gnosticism. Gnosticism was rivaling against Christianity and gnosticism held itself better religion as Christianity was. Word gnosticism comes from Greek word gnosis, which means knowledge. Gnosticism was various effects, for instance, some Gnostics taught that divinity can be achieved through unity of the man and woman. This thought led some Gnostics to reach for divinity through sexual intercourse between the man and woman. There existed also some Gnostics, who abstained from sexual intercourse. When we know the fact that Gnostics held Christians as their enemies and that Gnostics held themselves better as Christians and that Gnostics wanted to show in every way that Gnosticism was better as Christianity, so Gnostics made so called gnostic gospels were they twisted, slandered and misrepresented the real gospels. Gnostics went so far in this misrepresent that they wrote "new gospels" by faking the real gospels. In these faked gospels Gnostics wrote that Jesus Christ was an ordinary man who has a sexual relationship with Mary Magdalene.
http://koti.phnet.fi/elohim/marymagdalene.html
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