How can Jesus be the Messiah...?

Question

...when he is only of the line of David through Joseph?
And Joseph wasn't his father, God was.
You can say what you like about Mary also being of the line of David, but IT DOES NOT SAY THIS IN THE BIBLE.

Or if it does, where? I haven't found it...

Answer 1

He isn't the messiah. The bible has too many flaws in it. The whole God loving everyone, but will then kill all those who sin and cast them to hell!!! Its so messed up! Religion has done no-one any good, its just a load of lies.

Answer 2

Romans 8 & 9 speak of the spirit of adoption. Even though Jesus was not directly of David his earthly father through adoption allowed for Jesus to be a son of David with Mary as the Mother where the original sin did not come into practice because no union was made through sex but was the supernatural pregnancy.

Because of this same Spirit of adoption we can become sons and daughters of GOD through the spirit and blood of Jesus. GOD the Father calls us sons just as Joseph would have called Jesus son.

Answer 3

The titles of 'The Messiah' and 'The Christ' were ONLY held by the king of Jerusalem.
According to Jesus's birth record his father was Joseph.
If you take the trouble to read the bible in detail you will find lies,contradictions and numerous errors. So how do you know which parts are correct? Just because it says it in the bible doesn't make it true; if you disagree, both sides of a contradiction cannot be true.Many religious hypocrite's only read the parts that suit them.
Read 'The Age of Reason' by Thomas Paine or visit www.thiering.net

Answer 4

Mary was also of the Davidic line.
Luke 3 is the lineage of Mary, Jospeh being Heli's son-in-law.
Her ancestor was Nathan, son to David.
Matthew 1 "Jacob BEGAT Joseph the husband of Mary..."
Joseph's lineage is through Solomon, another son of David.

Answer 5

The difference in nearly all the names in Luke’s genealogy of Jesus as compared with Matthew’s is quickly resolved in the fact that Luke traced the line through David’s son Nathan, instead of Solomon as did Matthew. (Lu 3:31; Mt 1:6, 7) Luke evidently follows the ancestry of Mary, thus showing Jesus’ natural descent from David, while Matthew shows Jesus’ legal right to the throne of David by descent from Solomon through Joseph, who was legally Jesus’ father. Both Matthew and Luke signify that Joseph was not Jesus’ actual father but only his adoptive father, giving him legal right. Matthew departs from the style used throughout his genealogy when he comes to Jesus, saying: “Jacob became father to Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom Jesus was born, who is called Christ.” (Mt 1:16) Notice that he does not say ‘Joseph became father to Jesus’ but that he was “the husband of Mary, of whom Jesus was born.” Luke is even more pointed when, after showing earlier that Jesus was actually the Son of God by Mary (Lu 1:32-35), he says: “Jesus . . . being the son, as the opinion was, of Joseph, son of Heli.”—Lu 3:23.

Since Jesus was not the natural son of Joseph but was the Son of God, Luke’s genealogy of Jesus would prove that he was, by human birth, a son of David through his natural mother Mary.

Answer 6

Jesus did fulfill prophecy, and was indeed the Messiah.

Many things that God's Word does not say, God tells us through His Holy Spirit once we accept Jesus BY FAITH as our Lord and Savior, and we take up our cross and follow Him.

Answer 7

The crux of the argument against Jesus of Nazareth being the promised King revolves around three contentions: (1) Jesus was not of the House of David; (2) his adoption by Joseph does not confer upon him the legal right to the throne, and (3) Mary’s genealogy which is traced to Solomon is irrelevant since tribalism is traced through the male. Do these contentions hold scriptural weight?

Is inheritance restricted to property? There is no basis in Torah for saying so.

It is undisputed that the Messiah must be of the genetic lineage of David. Messiah is also referred to as a twig and a sprout of Jesse (David's father). See Isaiah 11:1; Jeremiah 23:5, 33:15. Since Jesse was the father of David, Isaiah was foretelling that the Messiah would come from David’s house, his line of descent. Jeremiah also foretold this. “Behold, days are coming, saith the Lord, when I will raise up unto David a righteous sprout, and he shall reign as king, and prosper, and he shall execute justice and righteousness on the earth.” (Jeremiah. 23:5, Leeser) These prophecies could not be used today to identify the Messiah because the genealogical records that are necessary for linking him with the tribe of Judah and the house of David are nonexistent. They were destroyed with the temple in the year 70 C.E.

Regarding the destruction of the temple and the archives, the book History of the Jewish People by Max Margolis and Alexander Marx says on pages 202, 203: “Titus hastened to inspect the Temple. But soon the sacred edifice was the prey of the flames which the Romans kept alive. . . . So Titus had the quarter occupied by his soldiers burned down: the council house, the hall of archives, the whole of the lower city down to the Pool of Siloam.” The Bible Cyclopædia by M’Clintock and Strong states: “But there can be little doubt that the registers of the Jewish tribes and families perished at the destruction of Jerusalem, and not before.”

Clearly, the genealogy given by Matthew is of Joseph who is descended as a son of David through Solomon, Asa, and Jeconiah. Clearly, Luke is referring to Mary's lineage. Clearly, if Jesus were the physical offspring of Joseph, he would be disqualified from the claim to sit on David's throne because of the curse of Jeconiah (Jeremiah 22:24-30). Clearly, ANY would-be Messiah must, of necessity, come through the lineage of David and Solomon because of the promise God made to David. See 2 Samuel 7:12-16. Clearly, ANY would-be Messiah who was physically born of the seed of David through Solomon through Asa and the kingly line (David's lineage) on down through Jeconiah would be under the same curse, and therefore disqualified. If Jews are waiting for the appearance of Messiah, then similar words of the apostle Paul found at 1 Corinthians 15:19 would apply to them: “If in this [modern age] only we have hoped in [Messiah], we are of all men, most to be pitied.” inasmuch as any Jewish male, born in the normal human manner, would, assuming he could accurately trace his genealogy, fall under the same curse and be disqualified. Therein lies the paradox: Messiah must genetically be of the seed of David but must also possess legal descent through the lineage of Solomon. Any one descended through the kingly line of Solomon must necessarily descended through the lineage of Jeconiah. Jeconiah was cursed. Therefore, no one who is descended from him is eligible to sit on the throne of David.

Contrary to what some contend, under the Torah, an adopted son can inherit all the rights and privileges available to a natural son. Illustrative of this is the case of Abraham. See Genesis 15:1-4. Because of being childless at the time, Abram had made his slave Eliezer his heir. But God said otherwise. "This one shall not be your heir, but one who will come from your own body shall be your heir."

Genesis 15:1-4. New King James Version. Not just property, but all the rights and rank of a house can be transferred to a non-blood relative.

Believe it or not, this was a condensed answer.

Hannah

Answer 8

The best evidence that Jesus wasn't the Messiah is the state of the world now, 2,000 years after he supposedly lived.

Those genealogies are only made up anyway - otherwise why are there different lines of descent in Matthew and Luke?

Answer 9

You telling me! Yep, and the messiah needs two HUMAN parents! Jesus didn't come from two human parents! But as I see it, he didn't fulfill half of the messianic prophecies! And if he was the messiah, why didn't he bring the peace a messiah is supposed to bring, in the beginning!

Answer 10

It's a very long and complicated question. I would recommend reading "the case for christmas" by lee strobel.