“Fruitless Family Tree”

Tuesday, December 13, 2016

All right, this is the first time I have ever done this.  Well, I tried on some other site.  Okay, my question is really dumb, and I kind of just want to prove that I am right to someone in my family.  So some family member thinks we have the bloodline of Jesus Christ because our last name is ‘Plant’; I guess it means ‘offspring’ or something like that.  There is more to it I guess.

Sincerely,
Pruning The ‘Plant’

Dear Pruning The ‘Plant’,

It is impossible to be a descendant of Jesus because Jesus had no children.  Jesus was never married and never fathered any children.  Your family might be connecting their last name to Jesus through Matt 15:13, but that is a figurative reference to planting – not a literal family with the surname of ‘Plant’.  It is absolutely impossible to be a descendant of a man that had no offspring.

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