QUESTION: Were Jesus and Mary Magdalene in love?

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iiirenee

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Were Jesus and Mary Magdalene in love? I've been doing my research and this is what i found:

-His disciples said that Jesus loved Mary more than any of his other disciples or any other woman
- The Book Of Martyrs (book i am reading it is really great!) says that when Jesus was crucified Mary wept at his feet, poured wine on his feet and rubbed it in with her hair!
- There are accounts saying she looked like a widow in mourning
- She was the first to see Jesus ressurected
- According to early Christian manuscripts Jesus once kissed Mary ON THE LIPS and all his other disciples became very jealous of her
- His disciples descirbed her as Jesus' beloved
- AND i believe (?) the Bible described her as the most important/influencial person in Jesus' life other than God.


thank you for the answers :]
 
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lightbliss

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They loved each other as friends would, not romantically.
 
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Jesus was God in flesh, I believe. We are his children. Jesus did not fall in love with his children.
 
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charisenexcelcis

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You should try to look up chapter and verse in the New Testament regarding these statements. You might be surprized. she is only mentioned once outside of the story of the resurrection. Only one of those statements is supported by the NT--that she was the first to see Jesus after the resurrection.
 
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iiirenee

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I did, i also read the accounts of his disciples/apostles.

And i believe Jesus was supposed to be all man, even though he was God's son (God in flesh) he still had to resist earthly temptations and that's what made him so special before he died, he was pure and went through everything we have to.
I believe it's very possible he could fall in love. He wasn't ACTUALLY God, if he were why did he talk to himself so much? He prayed to God. I think they were 2 different beings at the time, and are now one.
(that is just my interpretation! :])
 
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charisenexcelcis

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I did, i also read the accounts of his disciples/apostles.

And i believe Jesus was supposed to be all man, even though he was God's son (God in flesh) he still had to resist earthly temptations and that's what made him so special before he died, he was pure and went through everything we have to.
I believe it's very possible he could fall in love. He wasn't ACTUALLY God, if he were why did he talk to himself so much? He prayed to God. I think they were 2 different beings at the time, and are now one.
(that is just my interpretation! :])
When he was just entering manhood, he was found in the temple, They asked him why he was there. He replied, "I must be about my Father's business." I think that he faced every temptation that we do, only without sin. I do not think that he "fell in love", romantically. I think he was already commited to the Bride.
As for Jesus being God. I believe that he was fully man and fully God. I believe that God is one in will and purpose, but three in self-awareness.
 
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charisenexcelcis

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We are the Bride of Christ. I believe that he was completely dedicated to his ministry, both temporal and eternal. I do not think there was a place for human "romance" in his quest.
 
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MaggieMye

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Also learn about Jewish tradition in literature. The oldest woman was always named first as a matter of respect. Scripture shows then, that Mary Magdeline was OLDER than Mary, Jesus' mother. She loved Him as her LORD and Savior and Friend. Afterall, He delivered her from seven demons that were tormenting her and controling her. There is nothing in scripture or any other truthfull and honorable text that supports Jesus loving anyone other than as God loves us all.

Maggie
 
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OreoSoleil

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I did, i also read the accounts of his disciples/apostles.

And i believe Jesus was supposed to be all man, even though he was God's son (God in flesh) he still had to resist earthly temptations and that's what made him so special before he died, he was pure and went through everything we have to.
I believe it's very possible he could fall in love. He wasn't ACTUALLY God, if he were why did he talk to himself so much? He prayed to God. I think they were 2 different beings at the time, and are now one.
(that is just my interpretation! :])

You need to read your message again --"HE WASN'T ACTUALLY GOD" -- I really encourage you to see why you are following Him. Because the whole Bible disagrees with this exact statement.
 
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Slepsog4

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There is NO biblical evidence that Jesus was romantically interested, let alone involved, with anyone. Jesus is a bridegroom; the church is his bride. As per his inspired apostle Paul, Jesus was not distracted by the earthly entanglement of such (cf. 1 Cor. 7).
 
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Redeemed79

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Jesus was fully God and fully man....God is 3 persons in 1. Each is distinct and has their own personalities...They are the ways that God has revealed Himself to us.
THe Son - Jesus Christ was a revelation for mankind. The Word made manifest. God revealing Himself to us and by the act of the cross, reconciling Himself to us. The bible talks of God being made manifest (revealed to us) 1 Peter 1:20 and Hebrews 2:14 - 15.....In this passage it speaks of Him sharing in our humanity so that by His death he might destroy the power of death. Read it as it is an amazing scripture. He was to become our High Priest and came and suffered temptation now He is able to help those who are tempted.
Where He talks and prays to 'Himself' -the Son had a relationship with the Father and as He was God made manifest to us in flesh a part of that is that He was teaching us in all that he did.
Like a type and shadow if you understand what i mean by that? Where Jesus prays to the Father it was to be an example that we were to do this, when he was baptised and the Holy Spriit came upon Him...same thing - a type and shadow of what it would be like for us and what we were to do. Where He went in the wilderness and was tempted by the devil - again, a type and shadow of what it was to be like for us. The way he resisted temptation - again, a type and shadow of what we were to do. The miracles and rebuking and casting out of evils spirits etc - again, a type and shadow of what we would do. All in all an amazing example for us, an amazing revelation.
There is soo much more in this. God used types and shadows all through the bible...i.e - the blood on the doorways of the Jews in the OT that gave them a covering and the angel of death had to pass over...hence Passover for the Jews...was a type and shadow of the propitiation (where because God cannot look upon sin so sees us through the blood of Jesus). The high priests that were the only ones that could make a sacrifice and atonement for peoples sins - a type and shadow of Jesus becoming our High priest through whom we could go straight to the Father.
Im probably off track now from what you wanted to know in the first place...sorry.
One last thing the Bible makes mention in John specifically about a disciple that He loved and that leant on His breast at the last supper and another one that leant on His breast and these were clearly men as it says man, from that we would never assume what people do of Mary. Jesus also would not fall in love the way we would as His love is AGAPE love which we only know through Christ before that we never knew complete unconditional, 100% committed and unchanging, not dependent on circumstances, sacrificial love.
The world has three lpves:
STORGE - family love, affectionate love but as we see the further the world gets from God the less of this love there is.
EROS - physical, sensual love. This has been cheapened and is selfish not selfless most of the time.
PHILEO - friendship, emotional love, comes and goes as emotions change.
All these loves are built and based on emotion and we know emotions change. God does not change. his love for ALL of us does not change. therefore He could not have loved her in this way but only in the way he loves us all, With AGAPE love.
I hope this helps....
Your sister in Christ...

Ps thought better add I often in my walk with the Lord ahve looked like a woman in mourning as Im sure others have also....
 
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pickles

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Saddly, there has been a false promotion of this idea, that Jesus was only a man, not the son of God.
That he and MaryMagdeline were married, had children , ect..
There is only one groom, Jesus. Only one bride, His church.
Those that are teaching this theory, have only one goal in mind, to steal away your faith in Jesus is Lord!
I guess the real question all should ask is, why would so many try to discredit the teachings and sacrifice that Jesus gave us?
Jesus saved us, and has saved Himself for us. That is the true great love Jesus gives us.
In Jesus, God bless. pickles
 
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Vidy

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This whole "Jesus was just a man and not God thing" has some truth to it, honestly. Not JUST a man, of course, because He was still all God. It's some weird complex "Trinity" thing. Jesus is God, the Holy Spirit is God, and The Father is God, but they are all 1 being... You could look at it as a split personalities thing I guess XD


But I honestly don't think Jesus fell in love with anyone. Since He WAS God, and knew His purpose on the earth, He probably chose to avoid intimate relationships with women on purpose. He might have still had all the hormonal feelings, sure, but as far as actually showing romantic affections toward a woman, I doubt it.
 
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The sad part is these liars are trying to make Jesus out as only a man. Jesus was and is God. As he does not lust after you or me to have sex with us. This is what these liars are trying to do to our Lord Jesus. Its written in the bible that in thoses days all people men and women gave each other a holy kiss. Thats kissing on each cheek men and women. What these liars are trying to do is make people think of Jesus as only a man and not as the God he was and is.

Mary poured perfume on Jesus. Not wine. And wiped it with her tears. She knew Jesus was going to the cross to die. I've heard the perfume in those days would have cost $10,000. In our time it would be $30,000.

There was a man sitting there talking bad about Mary just as in these days people talking bad about others. Jesus put the man in his place and told him he was wrong.

Sweet heart be careful of what you read OK.
 

zone

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You should try to look up chapter and verse in the New Testament regarding these statements. You might be surprized. she is only mentioned once outside of the story of the resurrection. Only one of those statements is supported by the NT--that she was the first to see Jesus after the resurrection.

agree.

there are actually SIX marys mentioned.

the magdelene heresy (you didn't start it, no offense) is the myth coming from the Gnostic/Masonic realm. Rosicrusionism.....some secret societies would have us believe that Jesus and Mary Magdalene had a child (a daughter) and that it is THIS "SECRET" of "the holy grail" that the templars and others have kept hidden to be revealed in it's time.

you can search Merovignian Line.
search the roots of the DaVinci code (the whole dan brown thing)

WARNING THOUGH: do not go to these studies if you are not certain you are called by God to do so.
you will pass through veils and see things perhaps you're not called to see, perhaps just yet. at least pray a lot before proceeding.

if you are just curious, don't go further with this. there are snares set for those who are called to enter this field of battle, and you can get spiritually hurt.

it's very complex but is satanic in origin and needs to be exposed as such. when it's brought fully into the light, it reveals the MAGNITUDUE of the deception, the mystery of iniquity that is currently working.

we really have to grasp that satan has had from the start of the whole mess, all this time to plan what is a fully SANCTIONED DECEPTION for all who would accept it. the so-called "gnostic gospels" that recently were "unearthed/discovered" is one you mentioned, that Jesus kissed Mary on the.......* then conveniently, the rest is "missing" from the scroll.

another in this group is the so-called gospel of judas....it claims judas and Jesus were in collaboration.

it is disgusting garbage, and utterly evil, but we aretold NOT TO BE IGNORANT OF SATAN'S DEVICES. have nothing to do with the deeds of darkness, but REPROVE THEM.

the magdalene/holy grail stuff is very very serious.........you will find the connection to the Knights Templars, the RC Church, and the freemasons.

their is method in the kingdom of darkness' madness, it is to entrap us in the BIGGEST LIE OF ALL.

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zone

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there is another similar deception that was front and center for awhile, you may or may not recall:

supposedly the FAMILY TOMB of Jesus' mother was discovered in Palestine, "scientists" and experts were trying to cast doubt on the bodily resurrection of Jesus by claiming His bones were probably in there too!!!!

this was not just a teeny hoax, it was carefully scripted, planned from a very very long time ago.

the LIE they want us to believe is that Jesus WAS NOT WHO HE SAID HE WAS, that He was and is not GOD. that He was not raised from the dead and so on.

they will soon present their PRETENDER, and the bible is clear he will indeed try the entire world THROUGH DECEPTION so severe, if it were possible (which by the power of the Holy Spirit IT IS NOT BY ANY MEANS POSSIBLE) the very elect would be deceived.

keep your armour on, pray and study without ceasing and have faith in GOD. if ye be in the faith, you can not be deceived, but ye must work hard:)

continue in the saving faith: listen to JUDE: see to whom his letter is written, and take hold of what you have received: * the breaks in verses are mine, for easier reading. go to it yourself, it is very important

JUDE
1 Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called: 2 Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.


3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.

4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.

6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.

7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

8 Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.

9 Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.

10But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.

11Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.

12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; 13Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.

14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,

15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.

16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.

17 But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;

18 How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.

19 These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.

20 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,

21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

22 And of some have compassion, making a difference:

23 And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
24 Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,

25To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.
 
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Logos57

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Were Jesus and Mary Magdalene in love? I've been doing my research and this is what i found:

-His disciples said that Jesus loved Mary more than any of his other disciples or any other woman
- The Book Of Martyrs (book i am reading it is really great!) says that when Jesus was crucified Mary wept at his feet, poured wine on his feet and rubbed it in with her hair!
- There are accounts saying she looked like a widow in mourning
- She was the first to see Jesus ressurected
- According to early Christian manuscripts Jesus once kissed Mary ON THE LIPS and all his other disciples became very jealous of her
- His disciples descirbed her as Jesus' beloved
- AND i believe (?) the Bible described her as the most important/influencial person in Jesus' life other than God.

thank you for the answers :]

Except for she was the first to see Jesus resurrected, all the rest of these items are just theories of Dan Brown, and the Gnostic movement. There is only one manuscript that may say that Jesus kiss Mary Magalene, and it is not in the Canon, the New Testament. I believe this manuscript is the gospel according to Philip. But no one know for sure if it says this as there is a hole right where kiss on the lips is translated from, so the translaters just took a guess at this statement.
Might be some truth in your statement from the Book of Martyrs, especially if written a little different.

Dan Brown and the Gnostic would like to teach that there are many books that the early church did away with because it threaten the church's power. But the New Testament is a fulfilling of the Old Testament, and the books that the Gnostic Movement would like to add to our New Testament have no connection with anything in the Old Testament, nor is there any true connection to an Apostle in these books.

The Apostle John wrote his first epistle as a warning against the Gnostic movement.
 
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Lifelike

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Were Jesus and Mary Magdalene in love? I've been doing my research and this is what i found:

-His disciples said that Jesus loved Mary more than any of his other disciples or any other woman
- The Book Of Martyrs (book i am reading it is really great!) says that when Jesus was crucified Mary wept at his feet, poured wine on his feet and rubbed it in with her hair!
- There are accounts saying she looked like a widow in mourning
- She was the first to see Jesus ressurected
- According to early Christian manuscripts Jesus once kissed Mary ON THE LIPS and all his other disciples became very jealous of her
- His disciples descirbed her as Jesus' beloved
- AND i believe (?) the Bible described her as the most important/influencial person in Jesus' life other than God.

thank you for the answers :]

Those that are forgiven much, love much.
 
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Lifelike

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Were Jesus and Mary Magdalene in love? I've been doing my research and this is what i found:

-His disciples said that Jesus loved Mary more than any of his other disciples or any other woman
- The Book Of Martyrs (book i am reading it is really great!) says that when Jesus was crucified Mary wept at his feet, poured wine on his feet and rubbed it in with her hair!
- There are accounts saying she looked like a widow in mourning
- She was the first to see Jesus ressurected
- According to early Christian manuscripts Jesus once kissed Mary ON THE LIPS and all his other disciples became very jealous of her
- His disciples descirbed her as Jesus' beloved
- AND i believe (?) the Bible described her as the most important/influencial person in Jesus' life other than God.

thank you for the answers :]
For Jesus to be ramantically involve to the point of sexual intimacy He would have had to marry her, and when Paul is talking about it being ok to have a wife as some of the Apostles did, i think He would have mentioned it if Jesus did as the ultimate proof. 1 Cor 9:5 "Do we have no right to take along a believing wife, as do also the other apostles, the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?" It would probably read "Even Our Lord did so!"

Not sure what early Christian manuscripts your quoting when you say Jesus kissed her on the lips but it that were true im sure the disciples werent jealous of him being romantically involved with her! They were all men... it was probably more that he showed her more favour or they were jealous of a closeness -she may have known him better - but this doesnt imply romance, just intimacy.
 
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