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Your post is super confusing and contradicts itself. 1) "There are a tremendous number of records of beliefs/gospels which the modern church considers heretica
by carterehsmith 10y ago
Your post is super confusing and contradicts itself.
1) "There are a tremendous number of records of beliefs/gospels which the modern church considers heretical, including ones which pertain to the status of women"
2) "there's no other historical record of people telling this story"
So which one is it? Is there a "tremendous number" of them, or is there "no other historical record"?
You can't have both. Either there is, or there is not.
- hyperpape 10y ago"This story" meant the story that Jesus was married. Other apocryphal gospels say things about women that sometimes contradict the orthodox opinion, but they do not say that Jesus was married. To reiterate what I am saying: there are plenty of historical records of the church attacking heresies in the ancient world, supported by both the writings of the church fathers and the writings of the heretics themselves. What this article points out is that we do not have any other ancient writings that allude to anyone believing that Jesus was married. It is, as far as we can tell, not something that was ever in dispute.