Jesus and his ball and chain?

I know this is an old, old topic but I recently read the book The DaVinci Deception, written about the ideas brought to the forefront of society's collective mind by Dan Brown's The DaVinci Code - the possibility that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene.

I won't go into too much detail here because ya'll can take the time to read the book if you want the full overview of these theories but here's the basic gist. It is suggested that Jesus Christ was actually married to Mary Magdalene. The church was supposed to be created through Mary after Jesus' crucifixion but because of the disapproval of the disciples and the Catholic church's desire to protect patriarchal rule, she was labelled a whore and stripped of her authority. It is also said that the two of them had a child named Sarah which started a holy bloodline that eventually mingled with the French royal family. Because of this, Mary is labeled in the novel as the Holy Grail, the chalice or vessel of the bloodline of Christ. There's been other literature written about these "facts" as well such as Holy Blood,Holy Grail and The Messianic Legacy.

The DaVinci Deception was written solely for the purpose of knocking The DaVinci Code; debunking it as it were. It gave a whole list of reasons why these claims of marriage and a holy bloodline couldn't be true. Most of them seemed reasonable, almost as reasonable as the claims in The DaVinci Code seemed as I was reading them. As I read and remembered the arguments on both sides and absorbed the tones and attitudes of various authors, one question kept playing in the back of my mind - Does it really even matter?

Honestly, who cares if Jesus was married? Does it matter if his wife was a "whore" before she met Him? Who cares if they had children? Who cares if the line mixed with the Merovingians? And who really cares if the line is intact today and His descendants are walking among us? As far as I'm concerned it doesn't matter at all. Firstly, if all these claims were true it would not affect His divinity in the slightest. He would still be God; the Word become flesh. If anything we could write that off as proof that He was also man, and that He truly did understand the plight of humanity because He would have lived a "full" human life. After all, isn't that one of the most comforting and amazing things about Christ? The fact that He was made a man, incarnated in flesh and walking among us so that He truly understood our pain and strife and could speak the Word directly and effectively to our hearts so we could know we aren't alone because God truly understands? I think so, and marriage would only enhance that.

Secondly, being married with children could never change the greatest and most important reason for Christ's being - the salvation of humanity. Christ came into this world to live a perfect and blameless life so that his sacrifice on the cross would be adequate atonement for the sins of humanity. This is the only way God could reconnect with His people. If Jesus had been married would his sacrifice then mean any less to us, any less to God?

And lastly, if He did have descendants that were walking around among us today, what would that change? We certainly wouldn't worship them because while they may in theory be part God, they are not the divine Redeemer that Christ was. They would serve no divine purpose in this world besides perhaps guiding the church in the way, say, the Imam guides the Islamic community as a descendant of Muhammad. They would never be on the same level as Jesus Christ.

I had a few other thoughts on this subject but I waited too long to post and they escaped me haha. I suppose I just don't understand what all the fuss is about and I certainly don't believe the Catholic church is just one big power hungry, women hating, fake institution. I find any and all literature on the subject fascinating but I don't know how much value I put in any of it. I suppose this is one of those mysteries we'll never truly know the answer to until we're dead. Remember, comments are more than welcome becasue I'd like this journal to be interactive :)