[teejay]

>I wouldn't entirely trust in the bible as a source of
>information pertaining to the entire Life of Jesus Christ
>because it is abundantly clear that accounts of his life from
>his childhood to the true beginning of his ministry are
>absent. Therefore you can quote as much scripture as you
>desire but there is no documented evidence in scripture to
>counter Dan Brown's Assertions in the Da Vinci Code.

I dont think that is entirley true. Luke was a man of high social status, a doc to be precise. He wrote the book of luke out of extensive research. And this is what luke says about christ's chilhood life Luke 2:40 "And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom,and the grace of God was upon him."As a little child, Jesus already was "strong in [the] Spirit" and "filled with wisdom." Though not specifically stated, this surely implies that He, like John the Baptist (Luke 1:15), was filled with the Holy Spirit from His mother's womb. You will note that both christ and John were for a time in seclusion in the wilderness. This actually prevented them from coming into contact with negative jewish influence in their early lives.

>Having said this, I do not believe that whether Christ was
>married is of consequence to what his ministry was desired to
>achieve. So i say this, if he was married ...so what?? does
>that now mean that he was not who he said he was?? Does it
>give any less meaning to his ministry??

I agree with you on that. Even if he were to marry he would still have spread the gospel. I though, was reading the book of Isaiah 53 and come to find out that it had been revealed to him that the suffering servent of God had no descendants implying that he were not going to have any marital affairs and so it came to pass as foretold much to the disappointment of those who insinuate that christ was maried.

>John 1:1-18 "1.In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was
>with God, and the Word was God ...14.The Word became flesh and
>made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory
>of the One and Only..."

Amen to that.

To add on to what you have just said. A man named Churchill Winston once said that "most people stumble upon truth but pick themselves up and move as if nothing has happened".Now The bible speakes volumes and volumes of truth but the naysayers disregard it as that litereture without any authority and is vague to them. They simply move not knowing that he who neglects wisdom is a fool and soon finds themsleves between rocks and hard places.

God bless you all.