(February 17, 2014 at 7:55 pm)Lek Wrote:(February 17, 2014 at 4:32 pm)Jacob(smooth) Wrote: High orangebox
Why do you think he picked just one bloodline to reveal himself to?
Humanly, Jesus could only be descended through one bloodline. When the messiah arrived he was revealed to Jews first, then to the rest of the world. Why he chose the Jews? Who knows.
But the idea was wondered about even in antiquity.
Quote:78. Again, if God, like Jupiter in the comedy, should, on awaking from a lengthened slumber, desire to rescue the human race from evil, why did He send this Spirit of which you speak into one corner (of the earth)? He ought to have breathed it alike into many bodies, and have sent them out into all the world. Now the comic poet, to cause laughter in the theatre, wrote that Jupiter, after awakening, despatched Mercury to the Athenians and Lacedaemonians; but do not you think that you have made the Son of God more ridiculous in sending Him to the Jews?
-- Celsus "On The True Doctrine" c 180 AD
