Interesting Jesus article?

[Goggs Mackay]

Pretty self-explanatory and very interesting. I am open in my anti-religious stance but this should interest christians and non-believers alike.

BBC News - 'Wife of Jesus' reference in Coptic 4th Century script

 

[mike]

Hilarious

Jim West, a professor and Baptist pastor in Tennessee, said: "A statement on a papyrus fragment isn't proof of anything. It's nothing more than a statement 'in thin air', without substantial context."

This of course also applys to the bible he no doubt considers the inerant word of god

 

[Ron Collins]

A 30 year old Jewish Rabi that was not married would have been a HUGE deal. The fact that it was not made a big deal of suggests that he was indeed married. The bible also never mentions Jesus taking a shit. Again, it would have been a HUGE deal if he did not. Things that are normal often go unmentioned. We have other contemporary sources, the gospel of Mary for instance, that show he was married. This may be another source showing that this very expected part of a Jewish Rabi's life was actually normal.