william the wie
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I love theology from atheists.She’s the only follower mentioned in all four Gospels. She is mentioned by name more than most of the apostles. Why did God want to drive home to us the message of her life?
She had seven demons possessing her. She lived a life of evil in constant anguish being avoided by everyone because all knew about her.
Then one day she heard a rumor about some healer performing miracles. She went to investigate.
Her demons were cast out and she was a new woman, freed from torment. She was there at His crucifixion and at his burial. The anguish she must have felt. This man who appeared to be the Messiah to her was tortured to death and is laying in a tomb. And it was an apostle she knew who turned him in.
But like the apostles, she did not understand what was supposed to happen next. She arrived at the tomb three days after his death to anoint the body with oil as was custom.
She arrived to find an empty tomb. Her first response was his body was stolen.
Then she learned the truth and everything that had happened all made sense.
Because she was his wife, that's why. What you have here is sloppy editing work at the Council of Nicea with conflated Marys.
The lesson of which is clear --- always proofread.
Oh and the apostle didn't "turn him in". He went to negotiate a prisoner exchange. Romans get Jesus, Jesus Barabbas gets released. ("Barabbas" = bar Abbas, son of the Master or son of the father, or as we would say today, "Jesus Junior").
That's why Judas found the mission distasteful -- he knew it meant the end of the Jesus thing (which was taking over the country), and why Jesus orders him "go now and do what thou hast to do".
Bring some in then.
I don't see anything here about "theology" though. All I see is history. Are we going on a tangent already?
Tell us that in Greek, you are reading into it the bullshit Da vinche code.
Jesus was and is married to the church as the bureaucrats of the millennial kingdom.