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   simpsonfan2 said, 7 months ago

   Why do the wieners come 10 to a package, but the buns come 8 to a package?
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   Nabuquduriuzhur said, 7 months ago

   The Gospels and the historians (such as Flavius Josephus) of the period don’t indicate that he was married.
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   The much later Knights Templar had a tradition about being descended from Christ, but there’s no evidence that it was true.
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   The recent Gnostic writing found was symptomatic of the Gnostic “alternatives” to the Bible that started being written in the 300s and later. Ironically, it was the collection of false writings being put forth that caused the churches to get together and examine each book and thus come up with what we call the Bible. The cannonization councils were extremely thorough in their investigations of each book.
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   Darren Blair said, 7 months ago

   @simpsonfan2

   $$$.
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   It’s to get you to buy more of both until you have an equal number.
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   Darren Blair said, 7 months ago

   @Gweedo Murray

   I’m an MBA with a focus on marketing. I could go all day talking about things that some companies do.
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   For example, at one point Mattel used to sell a 10-pack of Hot Wheels cars.
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   Now it’s a 9-pack.
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   What they did was they enlarged the splash artwork on the front of the box until it was big enough to hide the tray where the 10th car should have been, obscuring the fact that the tray’s not there anymore. They then altered the text on the packaging so that it no longer said it was a 10-pack.
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   It’s still sold in the same size box and for the exact same price as the 10-pack.
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   But due to a little slight-of-hand, you’re only getting 9 cars.
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   Penny Robinson Fan Club said, 7 months ago

   @Debbie Jordan

   Well well, fancy meeting you here!

   There is certainly no cause for tempers to flare over it, of course. I can’t recall which theologian/apologist of the last century spoke of it, someone of the caliber of GK Chesterton or CS Lewis, I believe, possibly Cardinal Newman  — but point being, that there was no essential reason why Jesus could not have been married, and lived as a model of a virtuous married man, rather than that of a virtuous bachelor. However, as you say, “it would not have changed anything about his mission,” including of course His own death and resurrection — as much as it grieved the disciples and His mother to witness His death, how much more so a wife! Not to mention the very equivocal status such a woman would be left in after resurrection and ascension. No, it generally thought – among other things – that Christ’s purpose precluded a wife, just because He could not be a proper husband AND do what He had to do. As further evidence, some point to the story of the “rich young man,” who wants to do everything he can (he thinks) to follow Jesus — Jesus responds with the so – called “evangelical counsels” – give up everyone else and everything you have, and follow me: the core of monasticism. He says to leave parents and friends and brothers – - but does NOT say a husband should leave a wife! Marriage, of course, trumps all. So even though you might say there is nothing =inherent= in the idea or person of Jesus Christ to preclude him living as any married man, his particular, unique mission here left an either/or choice.
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   Redhead55 said, 7 months ago

   @simpsonfan2

   I buy Nathan’s or Hebrew National with 8 wieners per package, so I have enough buns.
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   bmonk said, 7 months ago

   Yes—I sometimes think that whoever comes up with these “burning” issues do it to distract us from the real message, such as Jesus’ call, “The Kingdom of God is at hand! Repent and believe in the Gospel!”
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   freeholder1 said, 7 months ago

   Small problem. Christ has a Bride already. the Church. Human marriage is merely a symbol of the future eternal union with God. Like the Saducees you miss the point, this time, of his bachelorhood. All those references to his future marriage such as “I go to prepare a place for you” would have no special meaning if he were married. It’s even more important since the Templar and more recent new Age idiocy about a descendent have become ways to challenge his Godhood.
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   Rosie M said, 7 months ago

   Jesus Christ was NOT MARRIED… He was without sin… He DID NOT HAVE KIDS EITHER.. Come on people
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    Rista said, 7 months ago

    @Rosie M

    Since according to Genesis God instituted marriage, why is “without sin” considered pertinent to the idea of married?
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    Night-Gaunt49 said, 7 months ago

    @Rosie M

    Have you ever wondered why? Isn’t it odd?
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    pcolli said, 7 months ago

    It would have been both natural and a cultural requirement for “Jesus” to marry. What makes it so difficult to believe that fact if you believe in his actual existence?
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    damifino59 said, 7 months ago

    I personally believe that Jesus was not married and primarily because none of the gospels give any indication that he was.However,were it to turn out that he did have a wife where is the wrong in that. And Rosie M,sounds like,by the way you phrased you comments that marriage is a sin.At least that’s the way I see your comment that “he was without sin”.You said it,not me.
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    llebanorahs said, 7 months ago

    @simpsonfan2

    Because I eat a raw one without a bun now and then.
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    bmonk said, 7 months ago

    @pcolli

    Because he was so countercultural? Remember that Jeremiah was not married, nor was Paul.
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