The book of the generation of Jesus Christ

DID JESUS DESCEND FROM RUTH, ADAM, OR NOAH?

Arnold Kennedy. [email protected]

It is common to hear that Jesus descended from Ruth, who in turn descended from Noah and Adam.

Blasphemy is a serious charge! What we read in Luke’s genealogy is, “And Jesus himself began to be about

thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was (the son) of Heli“, The genealogy

goes back to Adam and nowhere says explicitly that Jesus genetically descended from Noah or Adam. The

words, “as supposed” = nommizo = “by custom” in this verse, have to do with the legal father, not any natural

father of Jesus. In Luke’s genealogy, the expression “the son of” in the Greek is found only in this reference,

“being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph”. In all the rest of the genealogy translators have added the

words “the son”. Without having any Greek knowledge, we can immediately discern that the birth of Jesus is

being treated differently from the rest of the genealogy.

Matthew’s genealogy does not take us back to Noah or Adam either, the genealogy starting with,

“The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham“, so no such claim about

Jesus descending from Adam can be made from this passage alone.

Caution must be exercised here. In these precise genealogies, there are “legal” and “regal” matters

involved. In this paper, the subject is solely one of “race”. It is common to see “law” and “race confused, but

at no time does the woman control the race. In God’s Law, a woman may inherit her father’s estate, and

Mary provided Jesus with the legal inheritance to the Throne, but not the Crown. As the legal father, Joseph

provided the legal right to the Crown.

We do not ascribe race to God the Father and thus do not to the Son of God either, and as far as

racial descent is concerned; Jesus was, “having neither beginning of days, nor end of life“-[Heb 7:3] -as

being a priest after the order of Melchisedec. So Jesus did not descend from any created human male (or

female).

A “father” is one who reproduces himself, and Jesus is wholly-begotten God. This Middle-Voice verb

tells He performed the action upon Himself. John 1:12 tells us Israel was not out of bloods (which is ordinary

human descent), nor out of the will of the flesh (which was Sarah’s desire for Abraham to have a child by

Hagar), but are begotton of God. Thus the origin of Israel is from God Himself, as “Israel is My firstborn”.

Where we read, “When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together,

she was found with child of the Holy Ghost“, and, “Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary

thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost“, it is clear that Joseph was NOT the genetic

father of Jesus. Also, if no human sperm was involved, why then should an egg from Mary’s ovaries be

involved? The way this involvement is used is to back up the idea of Jesus’ descent from Noah, presumably

through Mary. It is common to presume that Jesus obtained his humanity from Mary, but this is supposition.

If the Father did not need human sperm, why should He need a female egg?

So we will look at how Jesus came into the “generation” (= genesis) of Abraham shortly. “Generation” is

usually translated from genea, but here it is from genesis. Yet many still makes the claim that Jesus

descended from Noah, in support of their wrong declaration that everyone except Noah and his family were

destroyed by Noah’s flood. Hence we will be looking further into this.

As an example of what churches do, the “Answers in Genesis” organisation drops in the idea that the racial

blueprint is in the female mitochondrial DNA, and that, “one woman provided the mitochondrial DNA which

gave rise to the sequences in all people alive today”. In a subtle indirect way this lines up with the New Age

Earth Mother, ‘Mother Mary’, Lilith, and Gayia, etc.. Thus their idea seductively becomes that, “Jesus

descended from Noah” through women. This is approaching the Roman Catholic teaching that Jesus came

through Mary, who, “as the Saviour of the human race, was preserved exempt from all stain of original sin”.

(This quote is from Roman Catholic teaching about their doctrine of the Immaculate Conception).

Likewise Jewish teaching is that a Jew is a person who has a Jewish mother, but here we must remember

how Jesus taught about those “who say they are Jews but are not” (Romans 2:9 +3:9). In this case, “Jewish”

cannot mean either Hebrew or Israelite. The Jewish idea indicates that a woman is the source of all races,

an idea also promoted by these false Jews who control the media. But both Testaments of the Bible show

that genealogies are reckoned through the male side, i.e. a male begets a male down the line. Thus the

popular saying, “Jesus was born to a Jew making Him also a Jew”, is totally unscriptural and therefore is

false.