Did Jesus have genes?
What are genes?
Genes are units of inheritance. They are a sequence of DNA on a chromosome. DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) is one of a class of large molecules which are found in the nuclei of cells and which are responsible for the transference of genetic characteristics. Each gene contains information coded in the form of a specific sequence of nucleotides within its DNA molecule. Both parents contribute their individual genes to program together a new human being.
Was Jesus a real son of a man?
Whose genes did Jesus have?
Did Mary and Joseph consummate their marital union?
Did Jesus have brothers and sisters?
Did Jesus marry?
For traditional Christianity, the real climax of human evolution was the Incarnation. Culturally, supposed virginal conceptions and virgin births were nothing new. They were prime material for many mythologies and folk lore and influenced the early centuries of Christianity far more than we have been led to believe.
Patriarchal Judaism, then the Apostle Paul and later the Gospel writers and the Fathers (married or celibate) of the Church had their own naive primitive concepts about sexuality, about fatherhood and motherhood. These only reflected prevailing mindsets. For the most part they were merely a priori contrived fictions, claiming to report matters of fact but not actually supported by factual study. They knew nothing of Biological Science. In their ignorance of such, patriarchal authorities arrogantly, and with prejudiced assessments, considered the female as merely the receptacle of the male semen from which all new life had its assumed beginnings.
For almost nineteen centuries, Christian theologians had been blissfully ignorant of the live female ovum and its role in human propagation when fertilized by a live male spermatozoon, i.e., by one of the minute, actively motile, haploid gametes in semen. Unless Mary’s own child had developed naturally from one of her male-fertilized ova, she could in no real way be understood now as Jesus’ true mother. The Incarnation is no longer a mystery. It is early Christian folklore.
The hushed question vexing thoughtful Christian theologians is What was the nature of Jesus’ genes and chromosomes? Modern Genetics would affirm he had to have the genes of his parents, Mary and Joseph who must have consummated their marital union for Jesus to be conceived as the son of a man born of woman.
The traditional ever virgin Mary, Mother of God, has lost all meaningful reality. It was a contrived fiction, enunciated in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke some 70 or more years after the event. It is no use Church authorities invoking a special divine intervention to effect the transplant of the Word of God into Mary’s surrogate womb. Such extraordinary conceptual conceptions find no resonance in human biological experience and make no sense to modern minds.
Science now poses more problems than ever about the consistency and credibility of Biblical traditions, about Jesus’ birth and crucifixion and the Creeds of the early Church.
There is a troubling dilemma arising from the Gospel details about the death and burial of Jesus. In John 19/39 we read how Joseph of Arimathaea and Nicodemus asked the astonished Pilate (Mark 15/44) to let them remove the body of Jesus. Nicodemus brought with him a mixture of myrrh and aloes, weighing an incredible about a hundred pounds weight. Such medicaments and in such quantity were never part of Jewish burial ritual which confined itself just to washing and anointing the dead body with oil, before placing it in a winding sheet..
Instead the mutilated comatose body of Jesus received healing treatment with the most powerful natural medicinal agents known at the time. There seems to be no authoritative theological comment on this extraordinary quantity of recognised healing agents whose only purpose could have been to minister to the living, not the dead.
This alternative understanding of the events of the first Good Friday would remain only pure conjecture were it not now for the evidence revealed by the Shroud of Turin. The highly questionable (faked?) carbon dating of the latter in 1988 is treated at length in the Article - The Shroud of Turin. It was imputed to be a medieval forgery.
Instead of being merely a theory, there is now factual scientific confirmation that the body that was laid on the winding sheet was not dead. There are a score or more of distinct blood stains on it. Dead bodies do not bleed nor can such Shroud vapograms be produced except by the interaction of warm moist vapours on chemicals in contact with the surrounding cloth. Such vapours could only be from a live fever-ridden body.
In 2002, vital restoration work on the now discolouring Shroud was authorized and carried out in secret by a team of Swiss textile historians and technicians. Their observations gave the lie to the carbon dating. The seams, visibly evident on the cloth, had been stitched with a pattern and technique that was unknown in the Middle Ages. However they did match exactly similar cloth found at Masada near Jerusalem and which dated from the first century.
There is no reason for the faithful in the pews to be disillusioned by this turn of events and this new knowledge and understanding of the origins of Christianity. An integral truly Neo-Catholic Church, reborn in a Scientific Reformation, is perhaps much closer than we have dared to think. The Beautiful Lady of Lourdes, Fatima and other sites bespeaks a loving caring gentle Mother, ever mindful of the Children in her Selflife womb. The childlike minds of both well-meaning Christians and non-Christians alike, of pious folk of The East and of The West have always intuitioned a real divine Mother Self, sharing her selflife with them all, her begotten spaced time human gods and goddesses. Praying to Our Lady has been and will continue to be a meaningful act of universal religion.
Our Lady, your Selflife Spirit breathes within us.
Hallowed be your name.
Your Queendom come, your will be done.
Whilst Empirical Science has relegated the traditional Virgin Mary, Mother of God, to the realm of Mythology, it has at the same time acknowledged the reality and importance of The Woman. The latter, at the pinnacle of the class of placental mammals, would seem to be the primary goal of biological evolution on the Planet of Mother Earth. The male of the species has only a passing secondary role. Technically, in their physical selves, men are not placental mammals. Their nipples make evident vestigial traces of their having been born of woman, but they have neither a womb nor mammary glands by nature.
The author questions many long-standing and cherished ideas about patriarchal traditions and passes judgment on the theological foundations and development of the belief in the same-sex union of just the one male Father-Son God. He nowise intends to depreciate or destroy the latter but to liberate, both it and all other thinking about culture and religion, from the contrived fictions and tyranny of dominance in which patriarchal make believe has implicated them over the course of the last few millennia.
What are genes?
Genes are units of inheritance. They are a sequence of DNA on a chromosome. DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) is one of a class of large molecules which are found in the nuclei of cells and which are responsible for the transference of genetic characteristics. Each gene contains information coded in the form of a specific sequence of nucleotides within its DNA molecule. Both parents contribute their individual genes to program together a new human being.
Was Jesus a real son of a man?
Whose genes did Jesus have?
Did Mary and Joseph consummate their marital union?
Did Jesus have brothers and sisters?
Did Jesus marry?
For traditional Christianity, the real climax of human evolution was the Incarnation. Culturally, supposed virginal conceptions and virgin births were nothing new. They were prime material for many mythologies and folk lore and influenced the early centuries of Christianity far more than we have been led to believe.
Patriarchal Judaism, then the Apostle Paul and later the Gospel writers and the Fathers (married or celibate) of the Church had their own naive primitive concepts about sexuality, about fatherhood and motherhood. These only reflected prevailing mindsets. For the most part they were merely a priori contrived fictions, claiming to report matters of fact but not actually supported by factual study. They knew nothing of Biological Science. In their ignorance of such, patriarchal authorities arrogantly, and with prejudiced assessments, considered the female as merely the receptacle of the male semen from which all new life had its assumed beginnings.
For almost nineteen centuries, Christian theologians had been blissfully ignorant of the live female ovum and its role in human propagation when fertilized by a live male spermatozoon, i.e., by one of the minute, actively motile, haploid gametes in semen. Unless Mary’s own child had developed naturally from one of her male-fertilized ova, she could in no real way be understood now as Jesus’ true mother. The Incarnation is no longer a mystery. It is early Christian folklore.
The hushed question vexing thoughtful Christian theologians is What was the nature of Jesus’ genes and chromosomes? Modern Genetics would affirm he had to have the genes of his parents, Mary and Joseph who must have consummated their marital union for Jesus to be conceived as the son of a man born of woman.
The traditional ever virgin Mary, Mother of God, has lost all meaningful reality. It was a contrived fiction, enunciated in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke some 70 or more years after the event. It is no use Church authorities invoking a special divine intervention to effect the transplant of the Word of God into Mary’s surrogate womb. Such extraordinary conceptual conceptions find no resonance in human biological experience and make no sense to modern minds.
Science now poses more problems than ever about the consistency and credibility of Biblical traditions, about Jesus’ birth and crucifixion and the Creeds of the early Church.
There is a troubling dilemma arising from the Gospel details about the death and burial of Jesus. In John 19/39 we read how Joseph of Arimathaea and Nicodemus asked the astonished Pilate (Mark 15/44) to let them remove the body of Jesus. Nicodemus brought with him a mixture of myrrh and aloes, weighing an incredible about a hundred pounds weight. Such medicaments and in such quantity were never part of Jewish burial ritual which confined itself just to washing and anointing the dead body with oil, before placing it in a winding sheet..
Instead the mutilated comatose body of Jesus received healing treatment with the most powerful natural medicinal agents known at the time. There seems to be no authoritative theological comment on this extraordinary quantity of recognised healing agents whose only purpose could have been to minister to the living, not the dead.
This alternative understanding of the events of the first Good Friday would remain only pure conjecture were it not now for the evidence revealed by the Shroud of Turin. The highly questionable (faked?) carbon dating of the latter in 1988 is treated at length in the Article - The Shroud of Turin. It was imputed to be a medieval forgery.
Instead of being merely a theory, there is now factual scientific confirmation that the body that was laid on the winding sheet was not dead. There are a score or more of distinct blood stains on it. Dead bodies do not bleed nor can such Shroud vapograms be produced except by the interaction of warm moist vapours on chemicals in contact with the surrounding cloth. Such vapours could only be from a live fever-ridden body.
In 2002, vital restoration work on the now discolouring Shroud was authorized and carried out in secret by a team of Swiss textile historians and technicians. Their observations gave the lie to the carbon dating. The seams, visibly evident on the cloth, had been stitched with a pattern and technique that was unknown in the Middle Ages. However they did match exactly similar cloth found at Masada near Jerusalem and which dated from the first century.
There is no reason for the faithful in the pews to be disillusioned by this turn of events and this new knowledge and understanding of the origins of Christianity. An integral truly Neo-Catholic Church, reborn in a Scientific Reformation, is perhaps much closer than we have dared to think. The Beautiful Lady of Lourdes, Fatima and other sites bespeaks a loving caring gentle Mother, ever mindful of the Children in her Selflife womb. The childlike minds of both well-meaning Christians and non-Christians alike, of pious folk of The East and of The West have always intuitioned a real divine Mother Self, sharing her selflife with them all, her begotten spaced time human gods and goddesses. Praying to Our Lady has been and will continue to be a meaningful act of universal religion.
Our Lady, your Selflife Spirit breathes within us.
Hallowed be your name.
Your Queendom come, your will be done.
Whilst Empirical Science has relegated the traditional Virgin Mary, Mother of God, to the realm of Mythology, it has at the same time acknowledged the reality and importance of The Woman. The latter, at the pinnacle of the class of placental mammals, would seem to be the primary goal of biological evolution on the Planet of Mother Earth. The male of the species has only a passing secondary role. Technically, in their physical selves, men are not placental mammals. Their nipples make evident vestigial traces of their having been born of woman, but they have neither a womb nor mammary glands by nature.
The author questions many long-standing and cherished ideas about patriarchal traditions and passes judgment on the theological foundations and development of the belief in the same-sex union of just the one male Father-Son God. He nowise intends to depreciate or destroy the latter but to liberate, both it and all other thinking about culture and religion, from the contrived fictions and tyranny of dominance in which patriarchal make believe has implicated them over the course of the last few millennia.
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