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Originally Posted by BarbaraGordon
That is surprising. I have read two academic works that suggested the notion was laughable at best.
That said, I don't see how the existence of a wife changes the ministry of Christ either way.
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The late Raymond Brown, a leading Bible scholar and a Catholic, says evidence points to Christ being married, but he couldn't square that with his theology.
The argument is from silence; there are a set of expectations that accompany Jewish boys of that time, one of them being marriage while in their teens. If Christ
DIDN'T get married, the Bible would have said he didn't.