Jesus and Mary: So what’s going on between you two?

(Now this is definitely fringe doctrine. Let me make that clear. It debatable with in the LDS church.)

Q- Was Jesus married?

A- Yes!

Now let me tell you why many many Mormon’s think this. It’s actually quite rational (from their perspective).

First of all, heaven is a gradient of glory. Many people know of the 3 kingdoms or degrees of glory, but it’s even more complicated than that. Within each kingdom there are more degrees. So instead of the sun, moon, and stars analogy that is used within the church, they should adopt the ‘giant dimmer switch’ analogy that I use.

Next, Mormons believe in ordinances. The ordinance that most people can rap their heads around is baptism. However another ordinance that Mormons believe is necessary is what they call a sealing. Or in other words a ‘temple marriage’. Which is basically being married for eternity (there is no ’till death do you part’ or ‘as long as you both shall live’ line in the Mormon wedding ceremony).

So in very basic language, if you wanna go to the highest tier of heaven you have to have taken part in and accepted all of the ordinances that God says are necessary.

Jesus became the Savior because he was without sin. That is not disputed within Christianity. However without sin doesn’t just mean that he never cussed or stole anything. He also obeyed all of God’s commandments. One of which (according to Mormons) is eternal marriage. Also the only way Jesus could get to the highest degree of the Celestial kingdom was by being sealed to someone. Remember he wasn’t exempt from baptism, why would he be exempt from this.

So far I haven’t entered into the speculative doctrine yet. Everything above most Mormons (if they are active) will agree that they believe. Now, lets get into some of the debatable yet still widely believed stuff.

Evidence is clear that Jesus was tight with a certain family. Three of those family members are Mary Magdalene, Martha, and Lazarus. Mormons aren’t the first people to assume JC and Mary were hooked up, but the Mormon perspective of this relationship goes a little beyond what most protestants would call blasphemous.

(I’m not going to talk about if Mary was a whore, or if the 7 demons that Jesus cast out of her were the 7 deadly sins. It’s not important.)

Anything official about the JC/Mary relationship is not available. No one knows who Jesus married. That needs to be made perfectly clear. What I’m about to say is what many Mormons theory (personal belief) is about who Jesus married.

Here’s the thing, woman don’t get a lot of cred in the bible, everyone knows that. So for a woman to even be mentioned, she has to be pretty special, and Mary is mentioned a ton! She was present both at the cross (where she stayed after everyone (but John the beloved) had left) and was the first to witness JC’s resurrection. So most people put their money on Mary being Jesus’ wife. That’s understandable. Definitely explains why he brought her brother back to life. However, Mary was the youngest. She couldn’t very well get married and leave the older sister (Martha) as a bitchy old-maid. That would be shameful. So in some circles it is thought that maybe Jesus married both Mary and Martha. (Don’t forget, Mormons consider polygamy to be a true principal. They only stopped practicing it because it was against U.S. law, and Utah wanted to be a state. Though modern Mormons don’t currently practice polygamy, they still believe in it.)

I will say one last thing as I finish this post, most Mormons do not get hung up on if Jesus was married, to whom he was married, how many times he was married. They don’t care. Using the reasoning I started this post with, they assume he was married and leave it at that and don’t really think about it too much after that.

-Why am I writing this then, if Mormons don’t really care about it?

Because if you ask a Mormon, “Is it possible that Jesus was a polygamist married to both Mary and Martha?” They will say yes (If they know what they’re talking about).