Is Jesus truly the Messiah?

Question

In Romans it says the Messiah would be a physical decendent of David. In Matthew Jesus's geneology is traced back to David through Joseph...but Joseph wasn't Jesus's biological father.

Answer 1

Matthew begins his geneology with the documentary evidence that Jesus inherited the legal right to the throne of David through His stepfather, Joseph.

This genealogy traces the legal descent of Jesus as King of Israel; the genealogy in Luke's Gospel traces His lineal descent as Son of David.

Matthew's genealogy follows the royal line from David through his son, Solomon, the next king.

Luke's genealogy follows the blood line from David through another son, Nathan. This genealogy concludes with Joseph, of whom Jesus was the adopted Son; the genealogy in Luke 3 probably traces the ancestry of Mary, of whom Jesus was the real Son.

Answer 2

Jesus' genealogy is also traced through Mary. She was of the house of David and Levi. Now there is a member here called Jewish Girl who once presented a good argument against Him being the Messiah and wrote explaining the Kingship must come through the male line. But I don't know about that. That is a Jewish teaching according to her. Normally the linage in Judaism comes through the mother. Christians say that yes, Jesus is the Christ, or Messiah.

Answer 3

I believe Jesus did exist along with his disciples but I do not think he was the Messiah.
I think he was a normal human being in all aspects except he did have a higher moral code than the established church leaders at the time.
He and his followers knew that the only way to stop the church from decaying even farther they had to convince the masses that the Messiah had returned.
He also knew this meant he must die. Judas was in on it too. I believe that from reading what the bible said Jesus told him to do. Jesus told him to do what he must do. I think Judas was starting to have second thoughts because he didn't want to see his friend die.
During the time of Jesus there were I believe no less than 25 other men who claimed to be the Messiah. Only Jesus and his followers were able to put on a good enough show to make people believe he was.
That's what I think

Answer 4

If Christians desire to settle for Jesus as their Messiah then it extremely is fantastic with me and that i'm Jewish. even with the undeniable fact that he's not,replaced into no longer and not in any respect often is the Jewish Messiah as he did no longer fulfill any yet between the Messianic prophecies required of the Jewish messiah and the only he did fulfill replaced into being a Jewish male. He did no longer convey international peace,there replaced into no in amassing of the exiles, the Temple replaced into no longer rebuilt,he did no longer marry and he did no longer strengthen toddlers and additionally the Jewish Messiah would be a mortal guy born of mortal parents and his dying heavily isn't as a human sacrifice as this kind of factor is forbidden in Judaism. The Jewish Messiah will fulfill his undertaking in a single lifetime there'll be no 2d coming. For Jews to have faith that G-d could come to earth in human kind is blasphemy and to have faith that there is a divine trinity is idolatry.

Answer 5

This question has been asked untold thousands of times, and the best answer I've heard is that in the Biblical days biological fathers were not considered a necessity to lineage. Joseph being the step-father was good enough.

Answer 6

Jesus has no biological father because he was conceived by the Holy Spirit but since he is be born as human, he has to have a father and that is Joseph. Jesus is indeed the Messiah - no doubt about it.

Answer 7

The bible is chock full of contradictions. I try to remember a few things instead of writing the whole thing off (which I generally do anyway). 1) The bible was changed A LOT by kings and such after it was written, parts were rewritten or thrown out based on how the King or those in power wanted to control the people. The King James version is named after King James for just this reason. 2) The different people that wrote different parts of the bible may not have always gotten the message right because they're imperfect.

Answer 8

He can't be considered the messiah because the lineage has to go through the father...since Joseph wasn't his biological father, he cannot be considered a messiah.

Answer 9

Read Luke Chapter 3. There you will see it was not through David's son Solomon but through Nathan that Jesus came...Read and you'll see what I mean.

Took the Following from Scofield notes to help explain:
"In Matthew, where unquestionably we have the genealogy of Joseph, we are told (Mat_1:16); that Joseph was the son of Jacob. In what sense, then, could he be called in Luke "the son of Heli"? He could not be by natural generation the son both of Jacob and of Heli. But in Luke it is not said that Heli begat Joseph, so that the natural explanation is that Joseph was the son-in-law of Heli, who was, like himself, a descendant of David. That he should in that case be called "son of Heli" ("son" is not in the Greek, but rightly supplied by the translators) would be in accord with Jewish usage."

Answer 10

There has been no archaeological or historical proof that David ever existed. Yet there is plenty of proof about the existence of the Philistines during the supposed time of David. So choose your Messiah any way you like him.