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Originally Posted by danimal
I'm always surprised that so many Mormons believe he was married. According to a press release by the church, it's certainly not doctrine. "The belief that Christ was married has never been official Church doctrine. It is neither sanctioned nor taught by the Church. While it is true that a few Church leaders in the mid-1800s expressed their opinions on the matter, it was not then, and is not now, Church doctrine."
http://www.ksl.com/index.php?sid=266159&nid=148
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Yes but you forgot the rest of the quote.
The belief that Christ was married has never been official Church doctrine. It is neither sanctioned nor taught by the Church. While it is true that a few Church leaders in the mid-1800s expressed their opinions on the matter, it was not then, and is not now, Church doctrine."
Andrew Skinner, Ph.D., BYU Dept. of Religion: "There is nothing in the canonical New Testament, there is nothing in restoration scripture, there is really even nothing in non-canonical sources that you can use as evidence that Jesus was married or he wasn't married. The sources are silent on that aspect."
Some leaders did express their personal opinions and read the second to last statement, "that Jesus was married or he wasn't married." The Church offers no opinion on either possibility. It is silent on both possibilities.
Well, he either was or wasn't, but we don't know.