Why The Jesus Christ Bloodline Theory Is Getting Old

The theory that Jesus Christ, proclaimed savior of the world, has a bloodline is easily one of the most tired theories around. It is perhaps even more passé than the idea that there was a “big bang” that no one was alive to hear and suddenly the universe appeared. So, just how long has this unproven idea been around?

Most people only recall the theory going as far back as 1982, when Lincoln, Baigent, and Leigh published The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail. But, the theory is based off the Priory of Sion myth, which has existed as long as the Roman Catholic Church: almost 2,000 years. The continuous circulation of the theory added to the suspicions that Jesus Christ had a wife and child, and is taking up space in the archive of great theories for many reasons.

First, the theory itself is based upon scripture in the Holy Bible that seem to have been misinterpreted. As believed by British writer Laurence Gardner, Acts 6:7 and Mark 4:8 are indicators of Jesus’ marriage and offspring. However, a look into the scripture before it proves that if said scripture is in fact about Jesus’ “sewing of seed,” Mary Magdalene was not the only garden he planted in.

“Some fell on stony ground, where it did not have much earth; and immediately it sprang up because it had no depth of earth. ⁶ But when the sun was up it was scorched, and because it had no root it withered away. ⁷ And some seed fell among thorns; and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no crop. ⁸ But other seed fell on good ground and yielded a crop that sprang up, increased and produced: some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some a hundred.”

Second, the theory keeps changing every time a scholar or researcher touches it. There is no certainty of whether there was one child or three. Believers that there was only one have stated that the child was called Jesus Justus, a son. Others believe that the child was female. Without a definitive belief of the events during that time and what exactly was covered up, it’s careless to consider the Jesus Bloodline a theory at all. But there’s one major reality standing in the way of the “theory,” actually having any meaning at all: Christians.

In a world where 32 percent of the population identifies as Christian, according to Pew Research, how can such a theory live? Well, it can live, but the possibility that it will ever be deemed factual is quite small. According to the ideas found in books like The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail, The Da Vinci Code, and The Magdalene Legacy, the Roman Catholic Church is solely responsible for concealing the truth about Jesus’ bloodline to create world order. With the Catholic Church being one of the oldest religious institutions, accounting for 50 percent of the world’s Christians, it is not likely that the theory will resonate with people. Most of the hoopla can be chalked up to the same excitement children get about fairy tales.

Now, sensible questions are surfacing about what happened to Jesus’ bloodline if he was in fact a husband and father. The belief that his blood runs through the veins of the French kings simply makes very little geographic sense. So if Jesus Christ did have children, what became of his bloodline? Were they crushed in the fall of Jerusalem? Or can you send your DNA to a lab and trace your heritage back to the fossil of a manger in the Middle East? The truth is that after 2,000 years, no one has the answers. If the Roman Catholic Church did cover up Bible time occurrences and people are still worshipping as Catholics, it’s safe to say their secret is safe.

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