@trbooks"This belongs on HN why?" Exactly!
It is a bit arduous to comprehend why HN is so eager to distribute such news which are a bit irritating for believer members like me. It is sad that it is always one sided.
It is a bit arduous to comprehend why HN is so eager to distribute such news which are a bit irritating for believer members like me. It is sad that it is always one sided.
As to it being irritating to believers, I don't understand why. Jesus was a rabbi. In this story he married a believer. Rabbis traditionally married devout women. But what do I know? I'm just a believer that is also a de-aproned freemasons currently researching the rosicrucians.
Two key ideas:
1) Jesus is "married to" the church, as a whole, in traditional Christian doctrine. Being married to a woman would slightly complicate that theory.
2) Theories about Jesus marrying some particular woman are usually not only about that, but come with other baggage attached -- like accusations of suppression of knowledge, or suggested massive rewrites of Christian ideas. And they're typically based on a lot of speculation tied to things written centuries after the fact, not based on careful historical study.