This is quite funny to me. I guess you didn't read post #80:donnA said:Apparently adopted children are nothing in your opinion. They certainly aren't anyones child. And adoptive parents can not give them their name as it is meaningless. Nor can that child pass down the family name when they have children.
When in reality adopted children have the same rights as natural children, and certainly can use the familes last name and pass that name down to their own children.
Mr. and Mrs. Jones have a son, and adopt a boy. He is now their son also. Both sons grow up and get married, and both have little Jones' , are the grandchildren all considered Jones'? Yes. Each of them will then continue to carry the Jones name to their own children. The adopted boy is a Jones and his children are Jones'.
Unless you want to deny the position of an adopted child in a family. As if they were nothing.
Oops, you already did that, no need to repeat I guess.
annsni said:Once again, lineage counts on a blood line. I am not of the lineage of John Doe (not real name) even though he is my grandfather. I am adopted into the family through his daughter Pat. But I cannot claim to be a direct descendent because I am not of the same bloodlines.
God is very clearly interested in blood lines in Scripture. We know that He promised Abraham a son and he had one - with Hagar but that was not the son that would lead to the Messiah. God HAD to make the son between he and Sarah because that is the line that He promised the Messiah would come from. Why couldn't Ishmael have substituted? Because the blood line was wrong.
God set clear prophecy out in the Old Testament about where the Messiah would come from. Jesus would not have been the human Messiah born to all of humanity if did not carry that blood line - the DNA of his father David. Even if Mary were a surrogate, there is still a loss of the bloodline and we KNOW how important the blood is to God.
That makes it clear that there HAD to be a connection between Mary and Jesus - more than just housing him for 40 weeks.
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