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Originally Posted by kerry
The early Christian church had an extremely ascetic attitude towards marriage for the first few hundred years, even going so far as to encourage marriages without sex so the partners could remain pure. If Jesus was married, it suggest that some of the most early exponents of Christianity which were central to the development of the institution of Latin Christianity were at odds with Jesus practice regarding marriage and sex.
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At what point did Jesus' celibacy become central to faith? For most lay christians today is it just sort of an inconsequential fact, and not that important?
I've often wondered how those early christians thought they were going to fare down the road, with no kids. "How's the whole Shaker thing doing for you??"
Celibacy of course isn't just a christian concept. Lots of spiritual traditions eschew sex, if not marriage entirely, during ceremonial and other times. In my wife's culture, men who are preparing for ceremonies may not sleep with their wives or even touch them for 14 days before the ceremony. They abstain from salt and meat as well.
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