Looking for descendants of Jesus and Mary Magdalene

You do know that the Da Vinci Code is a FICTIONAL book?

Whoooo-we, I know a secret handshake...am I in????

Re: Looking for descendants of Jesus and Mary Magdalene


Wow an ethernet dna test arnt the modern marvels of technology just mind bending

On line DNA test? What will they think of next.

If we assume an average of 2.1 children per generation (an extremely low reproduction rate, remember they talk about the average American home with 2.4 kids), and 80 generations since Jesus' time, Jesus and Mary M. would have about 60,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 descendants.

Since there are only about 6,000,000,000 people on earth now, that means w're ALL, every one of us, their descendants thousands of times over.

And you thought you so special.

Is this person for real?

Lord 'elp us!

"yes?"

"Sorry?"

"You asked for Lord Ellpus, I was merely replying"

"What? You mean I'm typing to myself?"

"Looks like it, old boy"

"D'you think they'll think we're a bit barmy?"

"We?"

"Sorry?"

"You said "we".....there's only one of us"

"Now I'm confused"

"YOU'RE confused, I thought it was the guy who though that the Da Vinci novel was indeed factual"

"Isn't he the fellow that chopped off his ear?"

"That's the one"

"Well, how could he write a book, with only one ear?"

"Eh?"...................................

"I've just looked it up...you're wrong"

"Who is?"

"You are....it wasn't Da Vinci, it was Van Gogh"

"He wrote a book? I thought he was a Dutch transport worker"

"No, that's Van Driver. Van Gogh had only one ear"

"What? Like Da Vinci you mean? Bloody coincidence, that"

"Da Vinci was complete in the ear department. That's why he composed such good music"

"What, like Beethoven, you mean?"

"Exactly"

"Time for some tea, coming to join me?"

"OK"................

Aaah! That's better!

A large mug of Darjeeling wakes up the brain and brings everything into focus. I now realise that I have had another bout of A2K loneliness. This often occurs, first thing in the morning.

Sometimes, I am the only one in the bloody place, apart from the odd fellow Brit, Aussie or maybe the occasional American who has had too much coffee and can't sleep.
One feels like shouting "YOO-HOO....IS THERE ANYONE THERE?" ..and that's when the problem starts, when I reply to myself.

I'm not the only one doing this, I may add. Sometimes, I stray into a heated debate that dlowan is having with herself. On other occasions, it's Material Girl, or msolga.

The solution would seem to be that Craven should insist, yes insist, that a certain number of American A2Ker's remain awake, in order to provide adequate stimulation to those of us who may be in need.

I shall write to him when he wakes up.

I said, I will write to him when he wakes up.......


"YOO-HOO...IS THERE ANYONE THERE?"

Look, the Da Vinci Code is a fictional book that is based on flawed research by Leigh, Bateing and Lincoln.

Logically, the blood line lineage story as depicted in the Da Vinci Code does not make sense.

Say Christ were to survive, which is possible, seeing as he supposedly died on the Cross long before you're supposed to (he should have lasted a lot longer than just the six hours. The other prisoners did. That's why the Romans had to break their legs). Say that reports of Joseph of Aramaethea bringing aloe to Jesus' tomb (which are healing plants and generally not ones that are used on the dead) are true.

Let's say that Christ did survive and that his lineage did survive.

The last thing they would do is go west. West is where the Empire is. That's where Rome is. By going West, they're heading straight towards the people that had ordered Jesus' death.

They would have gone east along the Silk Road. And yes, we do actually see someone called Issa whom was born in that region, whom was taken to India in his early life by three wise men and whom went back. This Issa is buried in India in the traditional Jewish orientation of I think west-east (or is it north-south).

Issa also happens to have scars on his feet that suggested he survived crucifixion.

However, the Issa=Jesus Hypothesis only has that much going for it. It's still a lot more than the Da Vinci Code, but we cannot for sure say that Issa=Jesus, despite them having the same name.

Because let's face, Jesus is a Romanisation. The closest thing would be Jesa and the J would be prounounced like an I/Y.

Not me. The DNA test showed me to be a descendant of Moses and some Egyptian Queen-type person. Go figure. I didn't even know I had ancestors from that part of the world.

While I fully believe it was possible for Jesus to have been married and had kids, there isn't proof that he did.

And an online DNA test? You do know what a DNA test is, right?

Theres no proof that he existed at all!!!!

I love the idea that Jesus was married and had kids, why is everybody so against it?

Heres a question-Who here has read the entire original Bible and believed everything in it?

An even better question would be, "Who here has read the entire Original Bible?"

Since I don't know Aramaic, Hebrew or Greek (The first transcribed bibles), I couldn't say. And since the very first "bibles" were orally relayed, I really can't tell.

An even better question would be, even if you do sequence someone's DNA what are you going to compare it with? No one I know has a sample of Christ's DNA.

So it could be a case of chinese whispers.

My only point is that I started to read the Bible when I was younger and there were was a bit in it that I hoped wasnt soemthing I, or anyone would have to live by.

Oh! You found me! I thought I had kept well hidden.

It would be fun to get together with the gang and tell stories about the old days. "Papa" was such a cornball - that whole "got your nose" and pulling shekels out of our ears. Let me know when the reunion takes place!

Wolf, isn't the idea not that Jesus survived, but that Mary Magdalene was already pregnant and/ or had already borne children? (I read the book, but as escapist fluff, and the "retaining content of escapist fluff" compartment of my brain is rather small, I'm afraid...)

DNA...... Do Not Alphabetize? Drive No Automobiles? Drink No Alcohol?