As I said at the end my last post that you can trace the genealogy of Jesus through the lineage of Mary and Joseph back to King David and back to Abraham.
The Jewish people up to and past the time of Jesus took great pride in keeping the records of genealogies but with the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans in AD70 all these historic records were destroyed.
The fact is that no living Jew can trace their lineage back to King David and back to Abraham. That is why both Matthew and Luke were able to trace the lineage of Jesus because the records were in existence and available for study and review after the Lord's crucifixion in AD32, but before AD70.
The Jewish people up to and past the time of Jesus took great pride in keeping the records of genealogies but with the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans in AD70 all these historic records were destroyed.
The fact is that no living Jew can trace their lineage back to King David and back to Abraham. That is why both Matthew and Luke were able to trace the lineage of Jesus because the records were in existence and available for study and review after the Lord's crucifixion in AD32, but before AD70.
But going back to the original question posed by Richard Herring, when he said that the bible was wrong if it said the Holy Spirit was the father of Jesus. If that were the case he reasoned that Jesus could not be related back to King David and Abraham.
Why was it vitally important that the Holy Sprit be the father of Jesus and not Joseph?
In Genesis 2:16-17the Lord God commanded Adam, saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die."
When Adam sinned by eating the fruit of that tree sin entered into the human race through Adam. Eve was deceived by Satan but Adam was instructed by God not to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and he sinned when he ate the fruit from the tree.
The penalty for this sin was death and separation from God, and the magnitude of this sin had far reaching repercussions even to this day. This sin nature is passed down from parent to children like DNA is passed down from our parents.
I believe that when a human egg is fertilised that a new human life begins. At that very moment not only does the baby start to form but their soul and with it the sin nature is already in place. I believe that our sin nature is passed down from the man. It is the effect of Adam's original sin passed to all human beings.
I also believe that is why it was necessary that the Holy Spirit overshadowed Mary so that Jesus could be born a perfect man, a man without the sin nature, the spotless lamb of God, the second Adam. But more that that, much more than that He was born a human being, but also fully God.
The saviour sent to the world take back what was stolen by Satan from the first Adam, to give us all a route back to God. The word became flesh, the creator entered His creation as a baby and as a perfect human man died to pay for our sins, and the sins of the world. (Joh 3:16) For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
Finally ............................... a thought for today
For time and eternity, Jesus is all we need.
