I blame Maury Povich for this post

[csberry]

The Old Testament talks about a new king coming from the house of David and/or a descendant of David. Matthew starts his gospel listing the genealogical lineage from Adam through David to Joseph.

HOWEVER, since God put Jesus in Mary's womb with no involvement from Joseph, can Jesus actually claim to be a descendant of King David? If we are strictly following the male biological lineage, Jesus is as much of a great-great-etc-grandson of David as Moses is a child of the Egyptian pharaohs.

But maybe Matthew is following the wrong path. I wonder what Mary's lineage is. Could she possibly be a descendant of David's and the justification for Jesus's connection to David that was previously unknown because of patriarchy?

Comments

[cyn-ful.livejournal.com]

Ahhh, but don't forget one very important fact - adopted children were treated better than children that were born directly from the birthline. Technically if we go back up Matthew as well to Boaz/Ruth - Boaz was the biological "father" but the son was for Ruth's first husband and given to Naomi. So technically, he was born from Boaz, but his birthline was looked at as if he were from Obediah (? - totally don't remember his name right now and I don't have my bible right beside me and being too lazy to go to youversion.com).

But through all of that, one of the classes I was taking at Whitesburg Bible College was that when the child was adopted the child became a part of the bloodline. That child was very special. It is taken to the step that we are the adopted children of God - not His "chosen" Jewish children.

On the other hand though...I was thinking along the same thoughts just two days ago when I was reading the list again. If I'm not mistaken though, Mary's lineage is through David as well. I know I have heard that somewhere - I don't know where they got their info from.