Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Jesus is a bastard (love child, nullius filius) ?

First, let me state this right up front.

This post is not trying to be blasphemous or insulting.

I am however, trying to investigate what people think is the right way to describe Jesus as a child of Mary, with out a human father. At least if you come from the immaculate conception, virgin birth side of Christianity.

Everybody I know and have talked to over the years describes Jesus as a child of Mary born of virgin birth. I have really started down the path of the real bible, looking at it content from different perspectives and most importantly, the idea of concision. Concision is all about finding concise and quality ways of expressing information.

Trying to say something like - Jesus is a child of an unwed woman, and impregnated by a non-human (Angel, God, whatever). "His mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be with child through the Holy Spirit." (Matthew 1:18)

Here is the question I am trying to answer. How do you express Matthew 1:18 in a concise way, 6 words or less total, starting with "Jesus is a..." . Convey the same information, with quality, and not being wordy.

So I started with some research on my first attempt at concision.

Jesus is a __________.

We try to answer that phrase with a maximum of 3 words in the blank space, preferably 2 words.

So here are some of the possibilities based on thesaurus entries.

For the idea of virgin birth we get...
Jesus is a ...
bastard
love child
bar sinister
bastard
bastardy
by-blow
fruit of adultery
illegitimate child
natural child
nullius filius
spurious offspring
whoreson
Sunday's child
misbegotten

From the idea that jesus did not have a human father ...
Jesus is a ...
hybrid
amalgam
bastard
combination
compound
cross
crossbreed
half-blood
half-breed
half-caste
incross
miscegenation
mongrel
mule
outcross

So here is the question I pose to my readers. How do we answer this statement concisely?

"Jesus is a ...."


Looking forward to everyone's ideas.

--Jack

1 comment:

  1. according to the definition of illigitmate child it says it is a child of unmarried man and women god and mary is not married that makes jesus an illigitimate chld

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