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Clearly you don't realize that Yechoniah was a cursed king.
Actually Jeconias was not the one cursed; his father Jehoiakim was. This is why Jehoiakim is not mentioned in Matthew's genealogy. Please reference Jeremiah 22:18-30 and Jeremiah 36:30.
Jeremiah 22:18 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah; They shall not lament for him, saying, Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! they shall not lament for him, saying, Ah lord! or, Ah his glory!
19 He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
20 Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up thy voice in Bashan, and cry from the passages: for all thy lovers are destroyed.
21 I spake unto thee in thy prosperity; but thou saidst, I will not hear. This hath been thy manner from thy youth, that thou obeyedst not my voice.
22 The wind shall eat up all thy pastors, and thy lovers shall go into captivity: surely then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded for all thy wickedness.
23 O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail!
24 As I live, saith the LORD, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet upon my right hand, yet would I pluck thee thence;
25 And I will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy life, and into the hand of them whose face thou fearest, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.
26 And I will cast thee out, and thy mother that bare thee, into another country, where ye were not born; and there shall ye die.
27 But to the land whereunto they desire to return, thither shall they not return.
28 Is this man Coniah a despised broken idol? is he a vessel wherein is no pleasure? wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land which they know not?
29 O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD.
30 Thus saith the LORD, Write ye this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah.
Jeremiah 36:30 Therefore thus saith the LORD of Jehoiakim king of Judah; He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David: and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.
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Of course it doesn't even say that in the scriptures
Luke 3:23 And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli,
24 Which was the son of Matthat, which was the son of Levi, which was the son of Melchi, which was the son of Janna, which was the son of Joseph,
25 Which was the son of Mattathias, which was the son of Amos, which was the son of Naum, which was the son of Esli, which was the son of Nagge,
26 Which was the son of Maath, which was the son of Mattathias, which was the son of Semei, which was the son of Joseph, which was the son of Juda,
27 Which was the son of Joanna, which was the son of Rhesa, which was the son of Zorobabel, which was the son of Salathiel, which was the son of Neri,
28 Which was the son of Melchi, which was the son of Addi, which was the son of Cosam, which was the son of Elmodam, which was the son of Er,
29 Which was the son of Jose, which was the son of Eliezer, which was the son of Jorim, which was the son of Matthat, which was the son of Levi,
30 Which was the son of Simeon, which was the son of Juda, which was the son of Joseph, which was the son of Jonan, which was the son of Eliakim,
31 Which was the son of Melea, which was the son of Menan, which was the son of Mattatha, which was the son of Nathan, which was the son of David,
32 Which was the son of Jesse, which was the son of Obed, which was the son of Booz, which was the son of Salmon, which was the son of Naasson,
33 Which was the son of Aminadab, which was the son of Aram, which was the son of Esrom, which was the son of Phares, which was the son of Juda,
34 Which was the son of Jacob, which was the son of Isaac, which was the son of Abraham, which was the son of Thara, which was the son of Nachor,
35 Which was the son of Saruch, which was the son of Ragau, which was the son of Phalec, which was the son of Heber, which was the son of Sala,
36 Which was the son of Cainan, which was the son of Arphaxad, which was the son of Sem, which was the son of Noe, which was the son of Lamech,
37 Which was the son of Mathusala, which was the son of Enoch, which was the son of Jared, which was the son of Maleleel, which was the son of Cainan,
38 Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God.
Notice the grammatical structure of this passage. In particular, notice the parenthesis in verse 23. The usage of a parenthesis denotes a thought that is parenthetical to the main thought. Thus "as was supposed" is parenthetical to "Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being the son of Joseph." Therefore in analyzing the grammatical structure we must analyze it as if "as was supposed" were not included.
The subject of this sentence is, of course, Jesus; "himself" is an appositive; "began" is the verb, and "to be about thirty years of age" is an Infinitive phrase which is the direct object of that verb. We now come to the phrase, "being the son of Joseph." This phrase is an appositive to the subject, "Jesus." If we eliminate from our study the intervening appositive, verb, and infinitive phrase, we are left with, "Jesus, being the son of Joseph."
Having established this, allow me to draw to your attention the remaining phrases of our passage. The phrase immediately after "Joseph" is, "which was the son of Heli." This phrase and all those following it is an appositive phrase containing a pronoun, a being verb, a predicate nominative, and a prepositional phrase. They are parallel in structure. If, as we have done, we remove the intervening words from our study, we can see that all the phrases from, "being the son of Joseph," to, "which was the son of God," are parallel appositives of the primary noun in the sentence, "Jesus." Thus "Jesus" is the antecedent of each "which." Jesus was the son of Heli. Jesus was the son of Maathat. Jesus was the son of Levi, and so on until the conclusion, Jesus was the son of God.
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There isn't even a shread of evidence for this ANY where in the bible.
Throughout Scripture, different people have been referred to as a son of David. Most of the kings of Judah were compared to David by stating that each of them did or did not do something as did "David his father." Christ himself was called "Jesus, thou son of David." Such usage of terms of relationship is very common in the Scriptures and there is no reason why such usage should not be applied to the genealogy of Christ.
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Sorry a child without a father doesn't take the line of the mother's father. It never worked that way.
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Perhaps you could explain how it did work.
IT COULDN'T HAVE JESUS IS A FRAUD.
Why couldn't it have? How many children do you know who claim the lineage of their adoptive father because they do not have a biological father?
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did the early church father's hold this notion??? Nope. wonder why.
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How do you know that the early church father's did not hold to this notion? How much of their original writings have you read?
Have you ever bothered to read their works? I know they wouldn't have thought this because it was contrary to the prophecies of Christ AND to jewish laws of decent.
Are you saying that since this "was contrary to the prophecies of Christ AND to jewish laws of decent," you are supposing that the church fathers would not have thought it?
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