Now when He rose early on the first day of the week, He appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom He had cast seven demons.
Mark 16:9
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Mary Magdalene is a media sensation nowadays, especially since a popular novel has portrayed her as the wife of Jesus who sat beside Him in Da Vinci's famous painting of the Last Supper. Mary herself would be appalled at the notoriety. In the Gospels, she's a humble, grateful woman from Magdala, a village on the western shores of Galilee, who never got over her attitude of thanksgiving for what Christ did for her.
Matthew 27:57-61
There's no evidence that she was a promiscuous woman or a prostitute. But she was demon-possessed; and after Jesus healed her, she was utterly devoted to Him. She followed Him from Galilee, and she was at Calvary where she watched Him die for the sin of the world. With a brave but broken heart, she came early on Easter Sunday to anoint His body with burial spices; and there in the dawn's early light, she became the first person to see the risen Lord.
Everything she did for Christ was motivated by thanksgiving, and that's what distinguished Mary Magdalene. A grateful heart is a great heart.
Jesus has healed us, too. Happy is the person who never gets over it!
Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.
Seneca
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Many syncretistic religions formed gnosticism. Gnosticism was rivaling against Christianity and gnosticism held itself better religion as Christianity was. Word gnosticism comes from Greek word gnosis, which means knowledge. Gnosticism was various effects, for instance, some Gnostics taught that divinity can be achieved through unity of the man and woman. This thought led some Gnostics to reach for divinity through sexual intercourse between the man and woman. There existed also some Gnostics, who abstained from sexual intercourse. When we know the fact that Gnostics held Christians as their enemies and that Gnostics held themselves better as Christians and that Gnostics wanted to show in every way that Gnosticism was better as Christianity, so Gnostics made so called gnostic gospels were they twisted, slandered and misrepresented the real gospels. Gnostics went so far in this misrepresent that they wrote "new gospels" by faking the real gospels. In these faked gospels Gnostics wrote that Jesus Christ was an ordinary man who has a sexual relationship with Mary Magdalene.
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