The DaVinci Myth vs. The Gospel Truth - Online Christian Library

THE DA VINCI MYTH VS THE GOSPEL TRUTH
Note what scholar Dr. Gary Habermas, Dean of the
Philosophy Department of Liberty University, says:
I have no problem with Jesus being married, if
that is what the early texts say. [Today there are
a lot of] historical revisionist views. People say,
“What’s revision?” Let me use a sports
illustration. We talk about Monday morning
quarterbacking and the idea is that we will solve
in the barbershop on Monday morning what all
our favorite coaches, teams, and players should
have done the day before. We rewrite the script,
but that’s not how the script happened when I
go back and watch a tape of the game. There are
a lot of revisionist views out there: Jesus was
married—something else. If our earliest
authoritative texts tell us Jesus was married, I
guess I am going have to say that too. I’m not
going to go against the early data. The problem
is not: Were most men in Palestine in the 1st
century married? That is not the issue. The issue
is not: Well, couldn’t He have been married?
Not the issue. Is it wrong to be married? Not the
issue. The issue is: What do the early sources
say? We do not have an early source that says
Jesus had a girlfriend, or Jesus had a fiancée, or
Jesus was married. No sin in that whatsoever.
But that is not what the data say. So when
people come back and say, “Well, what if . . . ?”
What I think about that is it’s a “what if?” It’s an
ungrounded “what if?” It’s just what they say
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