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For centuries, there has been a popular belief that Jesus Christ had preached and practiced celibacy, and that he had never married during the time that he spent walking the face of the planet Earth. ... The question of whether or not Jesus was married is also just another one of these myths, and superstitions.
There is no record anywhere actually stating that Jesus Christ was unmarried, or celibate, or any record anywhere stating that he preached it. If Jesus Christ had been unmarried, or if Jesus Christ had been preaching celibacy, wouldn’t there have been at least one statement in the gospels or in any other Jewish writing of that time that says so.
Christians automatically dismissed the notion that Jesus Christ was married, because marriage implies sexuality. ... So we see that the marriage of Jesus Christ was not dismissed because historical facts show us that he was unmarried, but because the dogma of the church dismisses it. It was also dismissed because many Christians regard the marriage of Jesus Christ as an unholy or ridiculous suggestion. ... Jesus Christ himself was Jewish and his parents were also faithful Jews. ... The story is about two rabbis, one married and one unmarried, which are introduced to one another (http://mormons. ... The married rabbi tells the unmarried rabbi to leave and not come back into his presence until he is married (www. ... A surgeon wouldn’t listen to the views of the 4-year-old just like married rabbis wouldn’t listen to unmarried rabbis. If Jesus Christ wanted to be respected and taken seriously by the other rabbis, he himself would have to be married.


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