My Great Grandpa Jesus?

Friday, September 8, 2006

Back in April an interesting article in the Salt Lake Tribune caught my eye. The article was titled "Living History: Debunking 'Da Vinci Code': Christ's kin live in Utah". Here's the pertinent excerpt:

Speaking in the Salt Lake Temple to a select group of church leaders on July 2, 1899, George Q. Cannon of The First Presidency said, "there are those in this audience who are descendants of the old 12 Apostles, and shall I say it, yes, descendants of the Savior himself. His seed is represented in this body of men."
Dan Brown's novel assertion that Jesus was married with children is old news to Mormons, who suspected as much all along. Growing up in the church in California, I dutifully got up every morning during high school at 5:30 a.m. to attend seminary. It was there I first learned that the marriage attended by Jesus in Cana, where he famously turned water into grape juice, was probably his own.

My great-great-grandfather, Harrison Sperry, was Patriarch of the LDS Church at the time this meeting supposedly took place and even spent time in the slammer with George Q. Cannon. If high-level church leaders were in attendance there there is a good chance that ol' Harry Sperry was also there.

What if Harrison was one of the "descendants of the Savior" George Q. was referring to? That means... could it be... that Jesus could be my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather.

This of course all depends on how seriously you take the notion that Jesus sired children who emigrated to England, joined Mormonism, moved to utah and became leaders in the LDS faith in the late 19th century.

I, for one, am not inclined to believe that's actually the case.

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