Son of God

“The most pressing question on the problem of faith is whether a man as a civilized being can believe in the divinity of the Son of God, Jesus Christ, for therein rests the whole of our faith.” --Fyodor Dostoevsky

Recently a reader named Jonathan asked (here) about the significance of the Horites. I had identified Abraham's people as Horites. Using kinship analysis, I've shown that Abraham's father and mother were both Horites. So were Abraham's wives, Sarah and Keturah. (Read about this here.)

The research on the "Time of Division" and "Horite Territory" addresses, not Abraham's descendents, but rather his Horite mother, his Horite father, and his Horite grandfather, Na'Hor. If Abraham's mother was Horite, that means Abraham was Horite, as these people traced bloodline through the mother, as Jews do to this day.

The Horites appear to have been a tribe of priests whose God - Horus - was regarded as the "Son of God". The Egyptians had many gods and goddesses, but the Horites were particular followers of the one who they regarded as the source of light. Horus was identified with the daily journey of the sun from the eastern horizon to the western horizon. As the kinship pattern of Abraham's people reveals, they were very concerned with preserving the bloodline through the mothers, and their concern was motivated by an expectation that a great King and Savior would be born from them whose radiance would shine over all the earth, who would be a light to the nations. And they were right!

Why would preserving a kinship pattern wherein priests marry daughters of priests matter? It would matter if you believed that God had made a promise that a Son would be born of Woman who would crush the serpent's head and restore Paradise. That is why it is so significant that the kinship pattern of Abraham's people never changed. The Promised Son was to be born in Bethlehem, which was a Horite settlement. Because the kinship pattern didn't change, the genealogical material in Genesis drives us from the Garden of Eden, to Bethlehem, to the empty Tomb. The kinship concerns of the Horites were based on their expectation of the Promised Son of God.

The Protoevangelium (Gen. 3:15) is a promise to neither the serpent nor to Eve. It is the Word gone forth that shall not return void. We note also that "the woman" to whom God speaks in Genesis 3:16 is not Eve. The name Eve was given by Adam four verses later. So, who is "the woman" whose offspring will crush the serpent's head? "The Woman" can only be Mary, the Mother of God.

Mary's father was a priest who married a daughter of a priest, following the same pattern that we see with Abraham's people. This is the same unchanging pattern that I discovered in my analysis of the kinship of Abraham's ancestors AND his descendents.