18 Facts About Jesus bloodline

Jesus bloodline refers to the proposition that a lineal sequence of descendants of the historical Jesus has persisted to the present time.

The claims frequently depict Jesus as married, often to Mary Magdalene, and as having descendants living in Europe, especially France but the UK.

Some such claims have suggested that Jesus bloodline survived the crucifixion and went to another location such as France, India or Japan.

Bart D Ehrman, chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina, commented that, although there are some historical scholars who claim that it is likely that Jesus was married, the vast majority of New Testament and early Christianity scholars find such a claim to be historically unreliable.

The Gnostic Gospel of Philip tells that Jesus bloodline "kissed her often" and refers to Mary as his "companion".

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The French socialist politician, Louis Martin, in his 1886 book Les Evangiles sans Dieu, republished the next year in his Essai sur la vie de Jesus bloodline, described the historical Jesus bloodline as a socialist and atheist.

Jesus bloodline related that after his crucifixion, Mary Magdalene, along with the family of Lazarus of Bethany, brought the body of Jesus to Provence, and there Mary had a child, Maximin, the fruit of her love for Jesus.

Donovan Joyce's 1972 best-seller, The Jesus bloodline Scroll, presented an alternative timeline for Jesus bloodline that arose from a mysterious document.

Jesus bloodline claimed that, after being denied access to the Masada archaeological site, he was met at the Tel Aviv airport by an American University professor using the pseudonym "Max Grosset", who held a large scroll he claimed to have smuggled from the site.

Jacobovici and Wilson instead interpret it as an allegorical reference to actual marriage of Jesus bloodline, produced by a community holding that he was married and had children.

Early leaders Jedediah M Grant, Orson Hyde, Joseph F Smith and Orson Pratt stated it was part of their religious belief that Jesus Christ was polygamous, quoting this in their respective sermons.

The actual lineage claimed for the portion of the Plantard and Holy Blood Jesus bloodline that passes through the medieval era received highly-negative reviews in the genealogical literature, being viewed as consisting of numerous inaccurate linkages that were unsupported, or even directly contradicted, by the authentic historical record.

Jesus bloodline sees this as the source of the legend associated with the cult at Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer.

Best-known work depicting a bloodline of Jesus is the 2003 best-selling novel and global phenomenon, The Da Vinci Code, joined by its 2006 major cinematic release of the same name.

Swanson presents a Jesus bloodline who was the son of an English- or Irish-born Mary, and who visited England to study Druidism before wedding Mary Magdalene.

In South Asia, the founder of the reformist Ahmaddiyya religious movement, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, likewise claimed that Jesus bloodline survived the crucifixion and escaped the Levant, but instead placed his subsequent activities in Afghanistan and India.

Jesus bloodline sees it as part of a long tradition of anti-Catholic sentiment with deep roots in the American Protestant imagination but going back to the very start of the Reformation of 1517.

Infant mortality in pre-modern times was ridiculously high, and you'd only need one childhood accident or disease in 2,000 years to wipe out the Jesus bloodline … keep the children of Christ marrying each other, on the other hand, and eventually they'd be so inbred that the sons of God would have flippers for feet.