How important is Mary Magdalene?
She was a key and possibly leading follower of Christ. She accompanied Jesus and was a witness of crucifixion. Jesus appeared to her on her own when he rose again. In the Bible, is sex sinful? No, it is a sacred gift of God, and hence should be enjoyed within the total commitment of marriage. How reliable are the NT books? The Gospels were certainly written within 50 years of Jesus lifetime, quite possibly from AD 60 onwards or even earlier. They are clearly based on earlier eyewitness accounts. Very early on (about 130AD) the Gospels and Pauls letters were accepted by the church as Scripture. Having done very detailed studies, scholars tell us that we have some 97-99% of the original text of the Gospels. We have about 25,000 ancient manuscripts of the New Testament, dating back as far as 130AD. This compares with 8-20 copies of other famous ancient Greek and Latin books all dating from 900AD onwards Did the NT Gospels omit Jesus human characteristics to make him divine (as The Da Vinc
