How was it that Jesus was a son of David when Joseph was not his biological father?

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Luke supplied a genealogy bottom-up, Luke 3:

23 Now Jesus himself was about thirty years old when he began his ministry. He was the son, so it was thought, of Joseph,

Jesus was not a biological son of Joseph but a biological son of Mary.

31 the son of Melea, the son of Menna, the son of Mattatha, the son of Nathan, the son of David

According to this genealogy, Jesus was a biological descendant of David through Nathan and Mary. How was Jesus of the line of David if Mary was a virgin?
Now, Matthew provided a top-down genealogy, Matthew 1

1 This is the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah the son of David, the son of Abraham ...
6 and Jesse the father of King David. David was the father of Solomon, whose mother had been Uriah’s wife, ...
11 Josiah the father of Jeconiah and his brothers at the time of the exile to Babylon. 12 After the exile to Babylon: Jeconiah was the father of Shealtiel, Shealtiel the father of Zerubbabel,

This Jeconiah or Coniah was cursed in Jeremiah 22:28-30. His physical descendants would not sit on David's throne. To get around this curse, Joseph was not Jesus's biological father. He adopted him. Jesus was immune from the curse.

16 and Jacob the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, and Mary was the mother of Jesus who is called the Messiah.

Now in Luke 1:

26 In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, 27to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. And the virgin’s name was Mary.

Joseph was a biological descendant of David and Jeconiah. The biological descendant of Jeconiah could not be king.

32 He [Jesus] will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David,

Gabriel affirmed that Jesus was a son of King David. From Joseph's side, Jesus was not a biological son but an adopted son. As such, Jesus could be king.

33 and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end.”

It was the kingdom of God.
Let propositionn P1 = Jesus was a son of David.
Is P1 true?
According to human logical reasoning, there are some weaknesses in affirming P1 on either Joseph's side or Mary's side. However, Gabriel affirmed this. On balance, I accept P1.

 

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Back in the Old Testament, a curse was leveled upon a really bad king in
Solomon's royal line to David's throne that reads like this:

● Jer 22:29-30 . . O land, land, land, hear the word of the Lord! Thus said
the Lord: Record this man as without succession, one who shall never be
found acceptable; for no man of his offspring shall be accepted to sit on the
throne of David and to rule again in Judah.

The bad king's name was Jeconiah (a.k.a. Jehoiakim and/or Coniah). Joseph
was one of his descendants. (Matt 1:11)

It's commonly believed that the curse extended to Joseph, so that had he
been Jesus' biological father, it would have prevented Christ from ascending
David's throne.

But adopted children inherit from their fathers the same as biological
children; so had the curse extended to Joseph, it would have extended to
Jesus too whether he was virgin-conceived or not. In other words: seeing as
how Jesus got into Solomon's royal line by adoption, then of course he
would've got into the curse too because the throne and the curse were a
package deal.

However; the wording "to rule again in Judah" indicates that the curse on
Jeconiah's royal progeny was limited to the era of the divided kingdom. That
condition came to an end when Nebuchadnezzar crushed the whole country
and led first Samaria, and then later Judah, off to Babylonian slavery.

When Messiah reigns, the country of Israel will be unified. His jurisdiction
won't be limited to Judah within a divided kingdom, but will dominate all the
land of Israel. So the curse doesn't apply to him.

● Ezek 37:21-22 . .You shall declare to them: Thus said the Lord God: I am
going to take the Israelite people from among the nations they have gone
to, and gather them from every quarter, and bring them to their own land. I
will make them a single nation in the land, on the hills of Israel, and one
king shall be king of them all. Never again shall they be two nations, and
never again shall they be divided into two kingdoms.
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Before any man can be seriously considered to take David's throne, he must
first of all be one of Judah's biological descendants.

● Gen 49:10 . .The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from
between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the
people be."

Secondly: the man must be one of David's biological descendants.

● 2Sam 7:8-14 . . Now then, tell my servant David this is what The Lord
Almighty says: "When your days are over and you rest with your fathers, I
will raise up your offspring to succeed you, who will come from your own
body, and I will establish his kingdom. He is the one who will build a house
for My name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom."

● Ps 132:11 . .The Lord has sworn in truth unto David; and He will not turn
from it: "Of the fruit of your body will I set upon your throne"

Thirdly: the man has to be proven among Solomon's posterity.

● 1Chron 22:9-10 . . Behold, a son shall be born to thee, who shall be a man
of rest; and I will give him rest from all his enemies round about: for his
name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quietness unto Israel in
his days. He shall build an house for my name; and he shall be my son, and
I will be his father; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel
forever."

Now the thing is: Mary could provide Jesus his biological connection to David
but she couldn't give him the throne because that's reserved for the men in
David's line-- in particular Solomon's men --making it necessary for Joseph
to adopt the lad.

FAQ: Since when did the Jews begin placing men in positions of power by
adoption?

REPLY: Jacob was the first. He took possession of Joseph's two sons
Manasseh & Ephraim, and elevated them to tribal heads equal in position to
his eldest sons Reuben and Simeon. (Gen 48:5-6)
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FAQ: They say Jesus was one of David's paternal descendants. How is that
possible if he had God's blood in his flesh?

REPLY: According to Lev 17:11, the life of the flesh is in the blood. Well
then, in order for Jesus to be David's bona fides paternal descendant, he had
to have human blood in his flesh due to the fact that his paternal ancestor
David was human.

One of the oldest creeds in the book states that Jesus is fully God and fully
Man. Well that creed would be grossly mistaken if something other than
human life was in Jesus' blood. Plus: on numerous occasions Jesus referred
to himself as "son of Man" which, likewise, would be patently false were
human life not in his blood.

FAQ: Why are there people out there trying to disconnect Jesus from the
human race?

REPLY: They mean well; but are unaware that disconnecting Jesus from the
human race disqualifies him from taking David's throne; which would
remove him from any and all lists of possible candidates for Messiah, thus
helping the Devil clear a path for the anti Christ, viz: if people dismiss the
real Christ they will accept a fraud because frauds will be all that's left for
them to choose from.
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Joseph adopted Jesus:

Luke 2:48-51
48 And when they saw him, they were amazed: and his mother said unto him, Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? behold, thy father [Joseph] and I have sought thee sorrowing.
49 And he [Jesus] said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father's[God's] business?
50 And they understood not the saying which he spake unto them.
51 And he [Jesus] went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart. (KJV)

Thus, through Joseph, Jesus had the rights under Hebrew law of a son of Judah. It was important at that time that on Jesus' Patriarchal side He could prove birthright. Jesus fulfilled all Old Testament tradition regarding a (firstborn) male child: circumcision, the offering in the Temple, etc. It was also necessary that He fulfilled all Law regarding birthright;…, He came to His own, Israel, and thus He needed to fulfill the Law that God had given to Israel. At that time the Old Testament (Covenant) was fully in effect because the New Covenant (Testament) had not yet been offered.

 

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Joseph was instructed to give Mary's baby the name "Jesus" (Matt 1:21)

Joseph complied. (Matt 1:25)

In ancient Israel, when a man stood with a woman to name her child, it
became officially his. (cf. Luke 1:13 & Luke 1:59-63)

** I'd be curious to know if Joseph and Mary were hitched before naming
Jesus or afterwards.

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FAQ: If Joseph played no active role in baby Jesus' conception, then from
whence did the infant obtain a Y chromosome for his male gender?

REPLY: In the beginning, Eve's entire body-- inside and out, front to back,
top to bottom, and side to side --was constructed with material taken from
Adam's body. (Gen 2:21-22) So if God could construct an entire woman
from material taken from a man's body, then it shouldn't be too difficult for
Him to construct a teensy little chromosome from a woman's body.

Seeing as how Eve is the mother of all women (Gen 3:20 & Acts 17:26) then
any material taken from Mary's body to construct a Y chromosome for baby
Jesus would be owed to Eve's body; and by construction: to Adam's body.

The beauty of it is that a Y chromosome constructed with material taken
from Mary's body wouldn't be an alien substance created ex nihilo; but
would be 100% natural, and easily traceable all the way back to Eve, and
from thence to the very dust that was used to construct Adam's body.

I sincerely believe that what I posit herein actually took place when the
power of the Most High overshadowed Jesus' mom per Luke 1:35; and if my
thoughts are true, then little Jesus was thoroughly a Jew-- biologically
descended not only from David and Abraham as all other Jews, but also from
the Man that God created in the book of Genesis.
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