BBC accused of provoking Christians with Mary Magdalene documentary

Once again, there is a controversy brewing in the UK over whether Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene or not. For my part, I don’t understand the uproar. Why is it offensive to Christians to suggest that Jesus was married? Why does it challenge his “purity”? What’s “impure” about marriage? Jesus was born and buried in Jewish Judea. In the world that he lived in, and in Judaism in general, marriage is a way of sanctifying sex and procreation. It’s the first commandment and it’s holy.

The people who are offended by the idea that Jesus was married call ancient sources for this, like the gnostic gospels, “obscure”. What’s obscure about them? The gnostic gospels, for example, are at least as old as the gospels of the regular cannon. The only difference is that gnostics didn’t burn the other guys’ gospels. Also, why are we ignoring the archaeology of Talpiot, Jerusalem? As we have demonstrated in two films (The Lost Tomb of Jesus and The Resurrection Tomb Mystery/The Jesus Discovery) and two books (The Jesus Family Tomb and The Jesus Discovery) the Jesus family tomb has been discovered just outside of Jerusalem. In it was discovered an ossuary with the Hebrew name “Jesus son of Joseph” inscribed on it. Next to it was found an ossuary with the name “Mariamene” inscribed in Greek. This name is associated – in the entire body of Greek literature – only with Mary Magdalene!

Why are people upset by all this? Why aren’t they moved by the fact that at the end of the day Jesus and Mary Magdalene were buried next to each other as husband and wife?

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