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Saturday 17 October 2015

As a matter of scholarly argument, debate and speculation...

So, as a matter of scholarly argument, debate  and speculation, if Jesus had children as some people say he may have had a secret wife and family, Having a secret family would not be a sin in light of the concern for safety in this Herodian environment. The gospels leaves us to presume celibacy or a secret family.   He had to respect the fact that God's power is used for His glory. Although it is inexhaustible, it is purposeful power as seen in the five loaves and two fish.  Jesus' parents ran away to save His life from the first Herod with God's warning. Matthew 19 and Matthew 5 indicates that He understood the purpose of marriage profoundly from the perspective of first hand experience as someone who could see that marriage is not easy. So, to survive the second Herod but as a father and husband and minister, what would you do since you do not plan to evade or run from the second Herod forever? You hid your wife and children and sent them due north to Provence possibly. They may have left with Elizabeth and Zacharias John the Baptist's death. This is because you can see that Herod had the will to kill your family. John the Baptist is dead. This is only discussion as followed by some reverent scholars simply because Herod's hatred was quite miraculous. This is not to bring doubt to the biblical account but there is no official or scriptural indication of Jesus' celibacy or status as a eunuch. This does not change Jesus' status as immaculate. He was willing to touch the lepers and the unclean to bring restoration.  Some people want to think of the notion of copulation as unclean but Jesus did say that "as it was in the beginning, so shall it be in the end." He is considered a second Adam and clearly the first Adam understood creation and he also had a wife. There is an implicit marriage covenant in what you do in copulation. According to natural law, if you copulate, you are married whether or not you have a ceremony.        See 1st Corinthians 6:16:  As a Christian I may do anything, but that does not mean that everything is good for me. I may do everything, but I must not be a slave of anything. Food was meant for the stomach and the stomach for food; but God has no permanent purpose for either. But you cannot say that our physical body was made for sexual promiscuity; it was made for God, and God is the answer to our deepest longings. The God who raised the Lord from the dead will also raise us mortal men by his power. Have you realised the almost incredible fact that your bodies are integral parts of Christ himself? Am I then to take parts of Christ and join them to a prostitute? Never! Don’t you realise that when a man joins himself to a prostitute he makes with her a physical unity? For God says, ‘the two shall be one flesh’. On the other hand the man who joins himself to God is one with Him in spirit. J.B. Phillips New Testament (PHILLIPS)
The New Testament in Modern English by J.B Philips copyright © 1960, 1972 J. B. Phillips. Administered by The Archbishops’ Council of the Church of England. Used by Permission.
Certainly joining yourself to God does not preclude you having a wife but it may help you to know when it is a good time to run outside and cut the grass to avoid her feminine frailty after they cancel her favorite but really stupid soap operas.

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