Why Didn't Jesus Get Married

[tigger398]

i'm not trying to start a ruckus, but none of us were there... how do we know that the painting was all that inaccurate, or as some would say, "an abomination that God hates?" i don't recall there being any passage in scripture that describes the furnishings, or the table arrangement (if there was a table) or anything else. if there is, can someone please point me to it?

Deut. 4

16 lest you act corruptly and make for yourselves a carved image in the form of any figure: the likeness of male or female,

Any image of Christ is a false image. The passage above tells us that the painting is "inaccurate".

oh I want to read that verse.

[Guest HIS girl]

Is the painting bad?

Well if LD's intention was to cause controversy by using an event out of the Bible as it's vehicle - and it's ongoing misleading of people, then that would be considered as 'bad'.

[MorningGlory]

Ok I'm sorry I don't want this to get into a debate. I just thought this be a cool topic to talk about.

It IS a cool topic, tigger, and I think it's interesting. Don't be dissuaded by those of us that will argue with a hatrack if there is no one around who can speak......remember, this topic has been debated for centuries. No need to be sorry.

[nebula]

I heard from someone who studied Hebrew culture that illigitimate children were not allowed to marry.

Since the society would have considered Jesus to have been conceived outside the bonds of wedlock, He would have been so forbidden.

I highly doubt that was the reason.

OK.

Would you please explain why?

Look at post #8.

One point doesn't actually negate the other, does it?

Cannot both be true?

[Guest HIS girl]

Tigger, this could be the mother of all discussions......

[BFP]

Yup, deuteronomy about says it...God appeared in no form so that no one would try to make an image of Him...Thanks for pointing that out...

Edited March 28, 2008 by BFP

[nebula]

i'm not trying to start a ruckus, but none of us were there... how do we know that the painting was all that inaccurate, or as some would say, "an abomination that God hates?" i don't recall there being any passage in scripture that describes the furnishings, or the table arrangement (if there was a table) or anything else. if there is, can someone please point me to it?

Actually, those who have studied the culture will point out that they would have been sitting on the floor, not chairs.

Notice that John was leaning on Jesus' bosom? Could he have done that sitting in chairs?

Something else to note: why in real life would everyone have been bunched up on one side of the table?

That reminds me . . .

Question:

What did Jesus say at the Last Supper?

Answer:

OK, everyone on this side of the table if you want to get in the picture!

[nebula]

Is the painting bad?

Well if LD's intention was to cause controversy by using an event out of the Bible as it's vehicle - and it's ongoing misleading of people, then that would be considered as 'bad'.

Actually . . .

Who knows what Leo's intentions were?

[Guest man]

I heard from someone who studied Hebrew culture that illigitimate children were not allowed to marry.

Since the society would have considered Jesus to have been conceived outside the bonds of wedlock, He would have been so forbidden.

I highly doubt that was the reason.

OK.

Would you please explain why?

Look at post #8.

One point doesn't actually negate the other, does it?

Cannot both be true?

I can understand the culture thing, but that wasn't way Christ never married.

[Guest HIS girl]

Is the painting bad?

Well if LD's intention was to cause controversy by using an event out of the Bible as it's vehicle - and it's ongoing misleading of people, then that would be considered as 'bad'.

Actually . . .

Who knows what Leo's intentions were?

Mary Magdaline was in the painting of the Last Supper by LD. In the Bible it says that the disciples were present at the last supper and sure women were followers of Christ too and maybe we can't negate the fact that women could have been presnt at this event. I think LD knew it would be controversial especially in his era when women were not considered worthy. He seems to have liked people guessing at his paintings.