In the DVC post below, there’s a question of what does it matter if Jesus was married? And what’s the problem with talking and wondering about it?

Here’s the problem, touched on by another commentor:

There’s no mention of a wife of Jesus in the Gospels. No indication, whatsoever that he was married, and the old argument from silence doesn’t work either. There was no motivation for the evangelists to be silent on any marriage. They are not silent about any other of Jesus’ relations, not silent about his relations with the people of his home town. They name the (many of the) women who followed him in his ministry and remained faithful to him to the tomb. If, for example, he and Mary Magdalene had been married, it’s pretty clear that the evangelists would have pointed that out.

But they don’t.

So the problem with Oh, let’s play around, imagine…what’s the harm? is simply that it undercuts the authority of Scripture and diminishes the centrality as the Gospels as authoritative, reliable sources for our understanding of the life, identity and ministry of Jesus. It makes them the equivalent of our own imaginations, wishes and dreams.

Which they’re not. No matter how much we would like to justifiy our own idolatries, our own priorities, our own "story,"…they’re not.

Teaching people that the Gospels are not authoritative is, in the end, a deliberate act of sabotage, hiding the real Jesus from people because we like our gospels better.