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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (26820)	12/19/1998 7:17:00 AM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

<Christ came that all men may have eternal life in Him. He broke down the wall of partition that separated men through his sacrifice. When we are Born Again, we become the sons of God and a new nation and race. There is neither Jew nor non-Jew in this new nation.> These are nice words, Emile, but strangely I do not see you observing the sentiments behind them. If you actually conducted your life in this way, people wouldn't complain constantly about your ideas and ideals, which seem divisive and based on hatred and prejudice. Incidentally, I saw a program last night on the History Channel, about Jesus and the Holy Grail. I may not be spelling all the names right her, because I haven't done any reading about the ideas on the program, but one of the theories that the historians were discussing is that Jesus may have been from the radical Essene sect of Jews. This was a sect of mystical healers, whose beliefs and practices were revealed when the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered and translated. One of the important things about the Essenes is that their ideology demanded that men be married. The historian who was discussing this said that in Philip's Gospel, there is a passage where he is describing Jesus kissing Mary Magdalene passionately on the lips over and over again. He believes that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene. There are enough rumors about their having three children together--in this scenario, Mary Magdalene was pregnant when Jesus died, and escaped by water to the south of France--that there is a body of historians who believe that the Holy Grail is not really an object, but Jesus' bloodline, and that the children of Jesus and Mary Magdalene survived and started some of the royal houses of Europe. Whether you believe this last part of it or not--historians have written books on it, but it is quite contentious--there are some interesting points made by the documentary. One is that Jesus being married to Mary Magdalene would explain why she is not referred to in the Gospels as a prostitute, but is slandered later. This would be because the early Catholic Church had no room for Jesus having a wife, and possibly children, and began a concerted campaign to damage her reputation. I am not sure what to think of all of this, but one of the paintings shown in the program appears to be medieval, and shows Jesus with Mary Magdalene in front of him, and he has his hand on her breast. It is very sensual in nature. I wonder what happened to Philip's Gospel, as well. Obviously, there are a lot of different concepts of Jesus, and this program gives quite a bit of evidence that the truth about him was altered and suppressed so many times over the course of history that we do not really know him very well at all. Personally, I am fascinated with the original man who was Jesus, and want to know more about him. I do not, however, believe that many Christians know him at all because his early followers kept rewriting the story.