You know all those “begats” the New Testament begins with?
You know, “Abraham begat Jacob, Jacob began Isaac…”
Jesus kept talking about “My Father.”
Jesus was the son of God.
So you may wonder why the New Testament begins with all those “begats.”
Well, Matthew was aware that Jesus was the son of God Almighty.
But, bless his heart, he also wanted to prove that Jesus was descended from somebody IMPORTANT.






#1 by Anonymous on 10/02/2005 - 4:17 am
As you have said in other essays in this blog, Jesus came in a particular society with a specific way of seeing the world. My view is that the geneologies are there because they demonstrate fullfillment of the prophecies of that society.