but scholars tend to read that passage as symbolic rather than as a literal relationship or secret marriage between jesus and mary magdalene. scholars have not been persuaded over the years that jesus was married. we know of jews from the 1st century, in fact, who were unmarried. and it s striking that the jewish men that we know of who were single and celibate were men who shared the same point of view as jesus. perhaps the biggest problem with the gnostic gospels is that they were written decades and even centuries after the gospels of matthew, mark, luke and john. for some historians, that passage of time raises serious questions of authenticity. the gnostic gospels are not early sources of christianity.
god, trying to be honest to the jesus who walked in galilee and delivered the sermon of the mount. and also trying to be honest to the lives we lead in the 21st century. and that will always be intention, always. christianity has survived many powerful attempts to kill it off, and today, many of the issues that occupied the first christians are once again causing us to debate, challenge, and to believe or not 2,000 years after jesus. captions by vitac www.vitac.com
but scholars tend to read that passage as symbolic rather than as a literal relationship or secret marriage between jesus and mary magdalene. scholars have not been persuaded over the years that jesus was married. we know of jews who were unmarried. it s interesting that the jews who were single and celibate were men who shared the same point of view as jesus. perhaps the biggest problem with the gnostic gospels is that they were written decades and even centuries after the gospels of matthew, mark, luke health care reform and john. luke, and john. for some historians, that passage of time raises serious questions of authenticity. the gnostic gospels are not early sources of christianity. they re documents that came into existence way after the actual
say, christianity faced a life or death moment. this was the major dispute in early christianity, whether followers of jesus have to become jewish in order to worship the jewish god. the conflict threatened to destroy the new faith. how could it be saved? in jerusalem, around the year 48 to 49, the first apostolic council is called in order to resolve the issue of gentile christians. do they convert or don t they convert? paul argues that the holy spirit had descended upon the gentiles apart from the law of moses. therefore, there was no reason to insist that those gentiles be converted first to judaism in order to be a member of the church. and james, the brother of jesus, presiding over this jerusalem council, agrees with paul.
gospel with a very different version of the life of jesus, one that launched a battle for the very heart of christianity. of all the threats of christianity, perhaps the greatest came in 1945 near the village in southern egypt where the waters of the nile dry up into desert sands. this is where a farmer named muhammad ali was digging for fertilizer when he discovered a jar with ancient books hidden inside. within these books, there were over 50 texts, most of which we did not know about