Category Archives: Genealogy of Jesus
The Gospel of the Birth of Mary
This gospel, though it is considered to be authentic by several ancient Christian sects to be true of Mary’s life, has parts of it that has been corrupted. Jerome, a church father of the fourth century, made translations of this … Continue reading
The Curse of Jeconiah Rescinded
The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ …Jeconiah begat Shealtiel …And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary,of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ. (Mat 1:1-16) So you see, the royal lineage was NOT broken, according to Matthew’s genealogy.
Therefore, for Christian apologists the problem remains. The royal genealogy in Matthew is Jesus’s lineage; Jesus qualified through the genealogy in Matthew to inherit the throne of David and be the Messiah; which would make Joseph the biological father of Jesus; and finally Mary wasn’t a virgin when she had Jesus.
Problems this creates for Christian apologists:
- The royal genealogy in Matthew is Jesus’s lineage
- Jesus qualified through the genealogy in Matthew to inherit the throne of David
- Jesus wasn’t born of a virgin,
- he wasn’t God incarnate and
- the whole virgin birth story was a forgery.
The Real Genealogy of Jesus
In any case the Gospel states the truth… (And at the end of the same epistle he adds these words:)
“Matthan, who was descended from Solomon, begat Jacob. And when Matthan was dead, Melchi, who was descended from Nathan begat Eli by the same woman. Eli and Jacob were thus uterine brothers.
Eli having died childless, Jacob raised up seed to him, begetting Joseph, his (Jacob’s) own son by nature, but by law the son of Eli. Thus Joseph was the son of both.“ (Eusebius of Caesarea, Historia Ecclesiae, 1:7:11, 1:7:13-14)
Joseph: The Biological Father of Jesus
Messianic Lineage of King Solomon
However, messianic prophecy says that King Solomon had to be in the messianic lineage and that lineage is the one in Matthew which ends with Joseph. Therefore, Joseph would have to be Jesus’ biological father. This creates a problem since the virgin birth doctrine says that Mary was impregnated by the “Holy Ghost”. (“Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when at first we practice to deceive.”)
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Davidic Lineage through Solomon
Royal Lineage had to be through King Solomon not Nathan The primary and foremost criteria for Jesus to qualify as the Messiah is that he be a descendant of king David with Solomon, David’s son in the lineage. If Jesus’ … Continue reading