A Quest: Did Jesus Have A Biological Father?

If we are to take the Bible’s Nativity story at face value, anyone searching for, or even dare to ask about the possibility of Jesus’ human father, is immediately stopped short in his track.

That Jesus was conceived and born miraculously by a virgin stops any investigation to an abrupt halt.

It’s plain crazy to have thought of the idea of investigating it in the first place.

But do you notice that this point renders useless the tracing of His lineage that Luke and Matthew painstakingly wrote?

Why would these Gospel writers elaborate generation by generation, “who gave birth to whom” or “who had begotten whom” if they would only contradict themselves by their account of Jesus’ birth as being miraculous – that the “seed” that became Jesus in the womb of a virgin was not of human origin but directly to that of God, popping out of nowhere and impregnating Mary’s womb?

If Mary conceived instantly the very moment of the angel’s announcement that she would mother a child to be named Jesus, then, there was no seed involved at all, nothing traceable to connect Jesus to any of His historically famous forefathers – David and Abraham.

But the Bible is explicit to name Him as the “seed” of Abraham.

I don’t believe that the Gospel writers contradicted themselves. That they wrote in codes, is, perhaps, a better explanation.

Scholars may look at their writings in its entirety, analyze the context or read below or in between the lines, hang upside down from a parallel bar like Richard Gere as does Dan Brown, (and meditate and pray while in the process of doing so, if they are of the faithful kind…) or do whatever… there should be an explanation.

And here’s something worth considering:

If we read the Genealogy of Jesus, (Matt.1:18), generation by generation as it was written elaborately tracing Jesus’ lineage, right after the enumeration of “who was fathered by whom”, and counting the number of generations, what immediately follows tells us how Jesus was born:

“This is how the birth of Jesus the Messiah came about: His mother Mary was… ( New International Version)

“Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was…” (King James)

“Now the birth of Jesus Christ was as follows: when His mother Mary had been…” (New American Standard Bible)

This verse immediately introduces the story of the Nativity, right after the painstakingly laborious listings of who was fathered by whom.

And we can only begin to appreciate this verse if we read Jesus’ genealogy as sincerely and prayerfully as the gospel writers who wrote it.

Jesus’ birth can be understood by this – that he was born in the same manner as any one of those in the list. He should have been “fathered” by “someone” who was fathered by someone.

Jesus was Born of God?

Yes, my faithful feelings tell me so; and so was Adam, the first Son of God – and so should everyone be, ideally… however, going through a process of procreation that god Himself has set up.

Er Nuylan
http://www.TheFirstChristmas.Info/

Er Nuylan is a teacher with varied interests – from simply a walking a dog to History and Literature, Sciences, Philosophy, Religion and Spirituality, but claims expertise to none – an average Joe in the neighborhood.

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