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The Dilemma Today in Our Time - The 21st century not the 1st Century- (the century in which Jesus Christ actually lived) --

Is that we, the on-lookers --

The undecided --

The teenagers and youth of today

Those who have a CHOICE about whether or not they want to set foot in a church of any type--EVER!

Is that we (not the church-goers)

are presented (by TV and Cable)

and by ADS for Religious meetings,

by historical school courses, by rumors and the traditions of our church-going friends --

and by Hollywood movies we may attend out of curiosity --

with 6 decidedly different and incompatible with each other pictures or personalities of JESUS CHRIST!

6 Commonly Proposed Pictures or Personalities of Jesus Christ

Jesus #1, if he existed at all was a simple man, of little historical consequence. Jesus  #2, is as the Church councils have pictured him, a God who posed as a man Jesus #3, was an Essene, a man who lived a "Perfect" life, that we cannot match.

OUR HIGH PRIEST

      TRULY HUMAN

   BUT WITH TALENT!
Jesus #4, lived a celibate  life, like other Essenes, and Catholic priests and popes. Jesus #5, was our "High Priest" but we cannot possibly live like he lived Jesus #6, was not a high priest, but an occasionally sinful person such as we are.

 

Dr. Robert F. Holt, MD pictured here with this montage of pictures representing the Dead Sea Scrolls, is obviously biased towards Jesus #3, that Jesus was an Essene, but he'll discuss other views also in 6 pages, continuing on with this one.  On this page we'll discuss the view that Jesus was celibate, and never had a wife or girl-friend, nor intimate sexual relationships with any girls or women. 

This is the view of most Roman Catholics throughout the last 1500 years, and one of the reasons Catholic priests and nuns do not marry.

 

SECULAR WRITERS, those looking at Historical Events and People who have changed the world in a significant manner, separate what can be proved about Jesus outside the Bible as being more important and less biased than the New Testament writers because of the odd way the Gospels and Acts are written, and because Paul's Epistles or "Letters" speak very little about Jesus' actual life. Paul's epistles express his own bias against allowing women to hold positions of power and influence within the churches he founded, but he may have been reflecting a general attitude throughout the Roman Empire of his day, not something he got from Jesus' disciples and the 12 Apostles.   However, it says something that the 12 Apostles were all male, none of them were women. 

     Paul wrote in 1 Timothy 2:11-15 "Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.  But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to userp authority over the man, but to be in silence.

     For Adam was first formed, then Eve.  And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.  Notwithstanding, she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety."

 

The Sermon on the Mount

mentions women, but as a temptation to sin.

    Matthew 5:27 "Ye have heard that it was by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery.  28 But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart."

    31 "It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement:  32 But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery."

Since the Author of Hebrews Wrote about Jesus:

    Hebrews 4:15 "For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are yet without sin." --- Bible readers who have been Christians and believed that the Bible contains no errors --- have assumed this means among other things ---

   That perhaps Jesus had the capacity to "lust" when he saw a pretty woman, but never by even a thought did so, because he had stated that to think about sexual intercourse with a woman to which he was not married would be just as "sinful" as actually doing it (Matt. 5:27-28) --

    And also we have assumed that were Jesus to actually marry a woman, it would have to be a virgin he would marry, because to marry a woman who had been in bed with someone else would violate the principle he spoken against in Matthew 5:31-32.

     The New Testament Gospels TEMPT US (not Jesus) with stories such as these about a young woman named

Mary Magdalene

who was Jesus' "disciple" and did many provocative things with him and to him, such as:--

      Luke 10:38 "Now it came to pass, as they went, that he (Jesus) entered into a certain village: and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house.  39 And she had a sister called Mary, which also  sat at Jesus' feet, and heard his word."

     This is the same household, that of Lazarus, and the same Martha and Mary we encounter in John 11:20 "Then Martha, as soon as she heard Jesus was coming, went and met him: but Mary was still in the house."

    20 "And when she had so said, she went her way, and called Mary her sister secretly, saying, The Master is come, and calleth for thee."

    In another story told by Luke, Mary Magdalene is not named, but becomes the un-named "woman of the city" that wases Jesus feet with her tears, and dries them with her hair.  When Simon the Pharisee objects, Jesus answers (Luke 7:44) "Seeist thou this woman? I entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water for my feet; but she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head.  45 Thou gavest me no kiss; but this woman since the time I came in hath not ceased to kiss my feet.  46 My head with oil thou didst not annoint: but this woman hath anointed my feet with ointment."

    Hoping to convince us that Jesus had no sinful thoughts during these encounters, Theologians have tried to convince us we're talking about several women here, not Mary Magdalene, the woman he claimed his body after his crucifixion, but to me, that seems to make the situation worse, not better!  Following the trail left by King Solomon, Jesus' forefather according to Matthew's Genealogy.   In spite of his 300 wives, King Solomon seems to speak more highly of his mistress in his Biblical Book "Song of Solomon".

   The Church of the Middle Ages did the best they could trying to protect Jesus "perpetual virginity" as a valued part of their tradition, as they were also doing with Jesus' mother the ever-virgin Mary, but were confronted every now and then by such people as the Free-Masons and Knights Templar -- who insisted that Jesus was having the same type of sexual desires that all men have, and was acting on these desires perhaps with more than one woman, but most definitely with Mary Magdalene, pictured above.

 For those of you, who can like me, accept the research and dates set forth in "Jesus and the Riddle of the Dead Sea Scrolls" as being correct, you'll be happy to know that although Jesus was NOT MARRIED to Mary Magdalene by Essene standards throughout the Gospel years, they did indeed get MARRIED the week of the crucifixion!   Because Mary was three months pregnant!

 The Courtship and Marriage of Jesus

  Tuesday, June 6, 30 AD 6 pm --Jesus and Mary Magdalene are officially betrothed at Ain Feshkha, 3 Km south of Qumran -- Called "Cana of Galilee" John 2:1-11

   Saturday, Sept. 30 AD 6 pm -- Jesus and Mary Magdalene begin "Trial Marriage" at Ain Feshkha, now called Bethany -- Simon Magus (the Pharisee) officiates -Lk. 7:36-44 

   December 32 AD Mary becomes pregnant

   Thursday, Mar. 19, 33 AD Midnight - 2nd Wedding of Jesus and Mary- John 12:1-8, Mark 14:3-9 Mary acts as bride of Solomon

BARBARA THIERING PHD was not, of course, the first modern author to disturb the age old ORTHODOXY that Jesus was CELIBATE, like his mother the Virgin Mary, who had a semi-divine son although she "never knew a man".  In 1973, an Australian author named Donovan Joyce publish a book titled

 in which he, Donovan Joyce, claims to have seen an actual ancient scroll found in a clay jar in the ruins of Masada of the type found in the caves near Qumran.  The scroll was written in Aramaic by a man named Jesus son of Jacob of Genesareth who, at 80 years old, was the last rightful king of the Jews.  This writer stated that he watched his son crucified by the Romans during the siege then in progress.   Assuming the writer to be Jesus Christ, Joyce in his book assumes that Jesus must have been married to have had a son old enough to be crucified about 73 AD.

    Library thieves and fanatical Christians bent on preserving orthodoxy and Jesus' celibate status had stolen most copies of the "Jesus Scroll" by Joyce out of most libraries that still had it listed in their collections, even the "Library of Congress", but I, Dr. Robert Holt, finally found and photocopied a copy in the University of Florida in West Miami.

 

 

AFTER UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPTS TO SUPPRESS A FAIRLY LONG SERIES OF BOOKS DISLIKED BY THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND HER PROTESTANT "DAUGHTERS" SUCH AS

"HOLY BLOOD/HOLY GRAIL", "THE MESSIANIC LEGACY", and "BLOODLINE OF THE HOLY GRAIL"

BY THE YEAR 2000

a New England author named Dan Brown wrote and published

THE DA VINCI CODE

which caused a religious uproar the likes of which

are seldom seen in the Christian religious community!

    Although criticised as nothing more than FICTION, and not very well written fiction at that, the story line that Jesus had children with Mary Magdalene, and the descendents of these children are still living among us, infuriated millions, and delighted other millions, as similar stories have repeatedly done in past ages!

IS THE FIGURE SITTING TO THE RIGHT OF JESUS IN DA VINCI'S LAST SUPPER REALLY "JOHN", OR IS IT MARY MAGDALENE?

 

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