But why does Joseph’s bloodline matter when he had nothing to do with the begetting of Christ? They didn’t have sex to produce the Lord. It was supernatural.
Also, it’s late so I can’t go into detail like I want but real quick the text about Mary clothed with the sun and the remnant of her seed (Jesus) I still don’t get how some think she is portrayed there as anything but the esteemed woman (human vessel of Jesus) whom God protects from Satan’s grasp. When Jesus says nobody can come to the father but by him, etc. He never points to Mary as having anything to do with our fate, or the plan of salvation after the cross.
You are absolutely correct. God never once communicates in the Bible that Mary has any role in our salvation after the cross. Only God can forgive sins; and Christ Jesus died once for all time to forgive sins: sins past, sins present. God alone supplies our salvation. Mary has nothing do with salvation after the cross.
>> But why does Joseph’s bloodline matter when he had nothing to do with the begetting of Christ? <<
That’s exactly the point. I was responding to the notion that the bible didn’t have much to say about Mary. I pointed out that Matthew walks us through an entire history of the Jewish people, all leading up to Joseph, and then points out that Joseph’s significance was solely that he was husband of Mary; he was not Father of Jesus, he was only husband of the Mother of Jesus, and even that role overshadowed all of the history of God’s chosen people.