Famous people that actually exist have ties to people in the real world, hence the many descendent of our presidents, founding fathers, kings and queens of other countries, scientists, philosophers, and even religious figures such as Muhummad. If they don't have offspring, at the very least people can trace a relative to them through their brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, mother or father and their offspring.
Confucius lived 500 years before Christ was supposed to have lived, and had 560,000 male descendants listed when his family tree was last updated in 1937. Over the next few years they'll include female descendents and the list is estimated to include over 3 million people. Can anyone name one person related to Jesus that isn't in the bible? He had several brothers and sisters, all of whom were Jewish, so they all would have reproduced had they existed. Why has no one kept up with Jesus' family tree?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070910/ap_on_re_as/confucius_family_tree
2007-09-10 04:51:31 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I think this question is very interesting.
And, it looks like no one can really explain an answer. . .other than all documentation of Jesus was destroyed. : P I am thinking that if my dad had been the brother of the Messiah. . .I would know and I would have told my children who would have told their children and so on and so on. This is something that I am going to look more into.
Unfortunately there are a lot of people who view questioning and searching for answers to their beliefs as lacking faith. . .I don't. If I believe something I want to know why I believe it and understand it the best that I can.
2007-09-10 05:30:15 · answer #1 · answered by sparkles9 6 · 8⤊ 0⤋
Could there be little records because if one was related or made public their connection to Jesus they might loose their heads? or be fed to lions?
Eucebus (sp?) was an Early Christian historian who wrote what happened after the bible/NT. He wrote that one of Judas' (Jesus' brother Jude-not the bad Judas-common name back then) kids was brought before authorities just because he was related to Jesus-Uncle.
He did have brothers and at least sister(s). So he did have relatives but it was life threatening if one claimed relation to him. In fact it wasn't until around 300 AD when it was "safe" to claim being a Christian when Constantine stopped the persecution.
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2007-09-12 06:16:13 · answer #2 · answered by Jeanmarie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The point is not how long he suffered the point is he suffered. Jesus broke no laws. Both the Biblical and secular accounts show that no Roman Laws were broken by Jesus. Pilate ordered his execution to appease the mob not to punish the breech of Roman Law. The point is that Jesus was billed in Old Testament Scripture as a King yet he entered this world in the lowliest of manner with a birth announcement given first to the Sheppards who were among the most disenfranchised of the society at that time and his exit from this world was among common criminals by one of the most excruciating deaths the Roman Empire could devise. The point is he lived out his life in humble servitude and through his death the sins of man were forgiven.
2016-04-04 00:21:15 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I real the article on Confucius and it was very good! Wow! 3 million desecedants....
As far as Jesus goes... I read once that in Europe the family trees were kept on the mother's side of the family. (You couldn't prove the father but there was no question of the mother...)
So maybe that has something to do with it... (just a guess...)
2007-09-10 05:49:09 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
Epiphanius of Salamis, in his Panarion, mentions a Judah Kyriakos, great grandson of Jude (brother to Jesus) as last Jewish Bishop of Jerusalem, that lived beyond Bar Kokhba's revolt. Where his family is now? I don't know...Yet ;o)
I don't know that James had children, he was stoned by Ananus ben Ananus
2007-09-12 05:41:35 · answer #5 · answered by ♫O Praise Him♫ 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The answer is simple: Jesus did not have any siblings. Christians from the Catholic church, Russian and Greek orthodox, Coptic Christians and Christian maronites and caldeans have believed this to be true for over twenty centuries. Protestant reformers also believed this until about 1700 ad.
2016-05-23 16:03:56 · answer #6 · answered by xvelasco 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What's ironic to me is that many of the answerers to this question are claiming that the documentation of Jesus' family was destroyed. This seems like important information that someone may have wanted to keep up with. Kind of like the Bible. Apparently the Bible was important enough to not get destroyed but the family lineage of their savior was not? (Maybe that's a good idea for your next question...)
2007-09-10 08:25:52 · answer #7 · answered by Christy ☪☮e✡is✝ 5 · 7⤊ 1⤋
The significant thing about Jesus is that he was God and we are not going to be related to God through the flesh.
To be related to Joseph is not to be related to Christ. To be relted to Mary would in a figure be related to Christ but the significant link to Christ is spiritual and eternal.
2007-09-12 06:08:18 · answer #8 · answered by djmantx 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
RIFF - The reason you didn't read about Jesus' sisters is that female births are just about never recorded in the very misogynist Bible.
A favorite quote by homophobic Christians is "God didn't make Adam and Steve". Well - yes he did. The next generation after Adam and Eve was Cain and Seth. If Eve had any daughters, they weren't considered important by the authors. You think maybe the authors were male themselves?
2007-09-10 05:28:42 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 4⤋
After all the answers all I can give is a star for "a darn
good question" that I have no idea what the answer is.
2007-09-12 05:07:33 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋