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Mrs. Christ
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Mrs. Christ
Let the shrieking commence!

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/19/us/his...TE&ei=5043

Quote: CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — A historian of early Christianity at Harvard Divinity School has identified a scrap of papyrus that she says was written in Coptic in the fourth century and contains a phrase never seen in any piece of Scripture: “Jesus said to them, ‘My wife …'”

The faded papyrus fragment is smaller than a business card, with eight lines on one side, in black ink legible under a magnifying glass. Just below the line about Jesus having a wife, the papyrus includes a second provocative clause that purportedly says, “she will be able to be my disciple.”

At least in this tradition you don't have to worry about your godboy being gay.
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RE: Mrs. Christ
4th century? I'm sceptical of the fact this fucker even existed let alone had a wife.
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RE: Mrs. Christ
A Coptic translation of an earlier Greek text. The properties of the Egyptian desert are such that papyrus survives to a far better degree than in the more humid parts of the empire.
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RE: Mrs. Christ
I can't wait to hear someone object by saying "But, it's only a fragment!"
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RE: Mrs. Christ
lol at anyone who thinks a Bronze Age man didn't fuck his followers.
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RE: Mrs. Christ
(September 18, 2012 at 4:40 pm)5thHorseman Wrote: lol at anyone who thinks a Bronze Age man didn't fuck his followers.

I'd be LOLling at one who didn't. Cool Shades
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RE: Mrs. Christ
I know people are going to object to this finding but for the life of me I can't really figure out why.
Its not like getting married and banging your wife is considered a "sin".
So there was a female disciple, so what?
"That is not dead which can eternal lie and with strange aeons even death may die." 
- Abdul Alhazred.
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RE: Mrs. Christ
Doesn't this all go back to the Council of Nicea where a bunch of guys sat around and decided which books would become the Christian canon? The whole process negates any "divine" influence upon the texts that were written. What if the Dead Sea Scrolls were the books that were actually divinely inspired? What if this scrap of parchment was a book that was divinely inspired? But they were left out because of the aforementioned council that decided what the "truth" was... And then they tried their damnedest to rid the world of any non-canonical books... If I was a god-fearing Christian, I couldn't get over all the editing and revisions that occurred.
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RE: Mrs. Christ
(September 18, 2012 at 5:08 pm)festive1 Wrote: Doesn't this all go back to the Council of Nicea where a bunch of guys sat around and decided which books would become the Christian canon? The whole process negates any "divine" influence upon the texts that were written. What if the Dead Sea Scrolls were the books that were actually divinely inspired? What if this scrap of parchment was a book that was divinely inspired? But they were left out because of the aforementioned council that decided what the "truth" was... And then they tried their damnedest to rid the world of any non-canonical books... If I was a god-fearing Christian, I couldn't get over all the editing and revisions that occurred.

Oh ye of little faith....

Obviously, god guided the council to pick the right books. The holy spirit moved their hearts so that every member voted for the books that were actually divinely inspired and decided to weed out the ones that that were not. How else would you account for the unanimous agreement on which books to include? Unanimous, that is, except for the few heathens who were being influenced by Satan.
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RE: Mrs. Christ
(September 18, 2012 at 5:05 pm)RaphielDrake Wrote: I know people are going to object to this finding but for the life of me I can't really figure out why.
Its not like getting married and banging your wife is considered a "sin".
So there was a female disciple, so what?

I remember one of my pastors saying that sexual desire is sinful and therefore Jesus couldn't have been married because that would mean he was a sinner.

Apparently what God designed us to do is sinful.

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"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
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