on the prophecy saying jesus would be a decendant of king david... looking over their genealogy, there's over 30 generations between them. let's just say king david had 2 children, which was an extremely small family back then, many families had as many as 15 children back then. so let's just say for the sake of this question each generation had 2 children. by the time the family line had made it to jesus, the number of decendants would be 2 to 30th power. assuming no inter-family marriages of any kind, no cousins, or second cousins or anything like that marrying each other, you would have over 1 billion decendants. of course, this would be a bit hard to believe. certainly people were marrying distant relatives of theirs from time to time, so let's just say 1/100 of that were actually decendants. that's still 10mil. decendants. and only in that generation. hardly seems like an impossible thing to predict? seems more like stating the obvious than prophecy. your thoughts?
2007-04-22
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