The Huffington Post’s Religion section: your go-to source for facepalm humor.
Case in point:
The Bible Unlocked: It Took Two Jesus Children To Make THE Jesus, by Kristina Kaine
It is no accident that the genealogies in St Matthew and St Luke’s Gospel are different. One traces the ancestry of a highly developed human being living on this earth. The other traces the spiritual legacy of a pure human spirit incarnating for the first time on the earth. Wisdom in one, innocence in the other.
The question we can ask is this. Could Christ, a mighty Cosmic Being beyond our understanding, who had never experienced life in a physical body on this earth, just be born through a mother as we all are? That would be like saying the sun could enter this earth and shine from within it.
By looking closely at the two genealogies, it is not difficult to see that two different Jesus children were born to two different Marys with two different fathers called Joseph. The Matthew Jesus descends from the Solomon line of the House of David. The Luke Jesus descends from the Nathan line of the House of David. If we look into our own genealogy we know that we are quite different from our cousins whose parents were siblings of our great grandparents – then multiply that for all the generations mentioned in the Matthew and Luke Gospels.
The Matthew Jesus child was the product of 42 preceding generations from Abraham to Joseph. Kings visited him when he was born, whereas shepherds visited the Luke child. The Luke Jesus’ genealogy reaches back to Adam when human beings first left their spiritual domain and took on flesh – as told in the story in the Garden of Eden. These details are very important yet often skipped over.
I have written about this in detail in my book Who is Jesus : What is Christ, Vol 1. Why mainstream theologians do not explore this information is a mystery.
Kristina, let me help you out. It’s not a mystery.
Mainstream theologians don’t explore this because it’s stupid. There weren’t two mothers named Mary, nor were there two fathers named Joseph. There were not two Jesuses (Jesi? What is the plural of Jesus, anyway?).
After some digging around, I came across Rudolf Steiner, a turn-of-the-20th century philosopher, who perhaps first proposed the 2-Jesus Theory. From Wikipedia:
Steiner also posited two different Jesus children involved in the Incarnation of the Christ: one child descended from Solomon, as described in the Gospel of Matthew; the other child from Nathan, as described in the Gospel of Luke.[83] He references in this regard the fact that the genealogies in these two gospels list twenty-six (Luke) to forty-one (Matthew) completely different ancestors for the generations from David to Jesus.
Which goes to show that there’s nothing new under the sun.
Except for maybe this next bit from the Huffington article:
Before that can happen, these two Jesus children will become one. We read about this event in Luke when his parents lost track of him. They found him three days later and he was a changed person.
If we put ourselves in Joseph and Mary’s shoes as they entered the temple and found their unearthly, innocent son – autistic in today’s terms – in deep dialogue with the teachers in the temple, we can experience their amazement.
Jesus was autistic. Huh -hadn’t heard that before.
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