after thirty generations...?

Question

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?

my point is how hard is it to say you're a decendant of king david? i could say that and i'd probably be right. sadly not even the bible can keep its story straight about how he's a decendant. and this is supposed to be the word of god?

gratvol, yes i understand that but i also didn't bother counting generations 29, 28, 27, and so on. so for simplicity's sake i just estimated and figured 10 million decendants.

plus i only assumed 2 offspring per family in stead of 15.

Answer 1

Yet another example of failed prophecy.

The geneaologies of Jesus don't match up in Matthew and Luke... and apparently, Mark and John didn't think it was all that important to include in their writings.

Here's a list:
http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/contra/gen_ml.html

Answer 2

Well now days it would nearly impossible to claim to be from the tribe of Judah or a descendant of King David. For Christ to be the real thing he had to prove that he came from the line of David. No big deal they kept good records. The catch is after Christ died and was resurrected and within that generation the temple was destroyed. With the destroying of the temple went the genealogy records. There is no proof that one could be descended from David.

Answer 3

History and family records were extremely important to the Jews. If you read first and second Kings and Samuel, you will see that. So they knew who was who and it wasn't too hard to prove it because they had a lot of written records. Plus, that is just one of 365 prophecies that Jesus fulfilled. There are over one hundred that ONLY He fulfilled.

Answer 4

Their was also nothing to say that it woudl be one generation or 100 generations or anything inbetween. If the prophecy were to become true, then almost any Jew at the time woudl have been a candidate based on historical liniage to DAVID.

Answer 5

I am not a Christian, but for the sake of intellectual honesty you also need to factor in things like infant mortality, disease, and war which took a larger percentage of lives then it dose today.

Answer 6

How closely did you check out Jesus' genealogy? Was it Joseph's line or Mary's?

Answer 7

Just goes to show how religions are not reality oriented or based on fact. Religions are just a culture's way of explaining the unexplainable.

Nothing more, nothing less.

Answer 8

except that he wasn't a descendant of David's line, Joseph was, so moot point, he never fulfilled that prophecy anyway

Answer 9

Doesn't matter MANY prophecies were fulfilled in Jesus.

Answer 10

Your point?