One of my guilty pleasures a few years ago was the pulp novel “Da Vinci Code”. I will probably go to the movie. Some folks reckon the Da Vinci Code smears Christianity and the Catholic Church, but I don’t see it that way. If anything discredits Christianity, it is those god-awful “Left Behind” novels.
As far as I am concerned, if Jesus had a wife and children that would not have any bearing on his divinity. He was fully human. He consumed food, slept, drank, had bowel movements, and did all kinds of human things. He even died. Would marrying and fathering children have been problematic for him? Is there some prohibition?
But the Bible doesn’t mention a wife and children for Jesus, some might protest. It doesn’t mention a lot of things. If the Bible never reports on any bathroom breaks, does that mean Jesus never went to the bathroom? The gospels are about the ministry and message of Jesus, not his domestic arrangements.
Is it the idea that Jesus might have had sex, even married sex, that gets some folks in an uproar?
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vache - i am a da vinci fan and fall all over myself laughing every time i watch the movie Hudson Hawk. I would like to avoid the controversy of the book davinci codes and watch the movie as entertainment, to watch the portrayal of da vinci and not the portrayal of hesus. would you let me know, after you have seen the movie, if there is enough da vinci in the plot to warrent my attendance. thanks.
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Jesus have a bowel movement? Blasphemy! He was a conservative white protestant, dag nabbit!
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