Family: The Third and Forth Generation

I consider myself to be extremely fortunate. I've got a photograph here on my desk in my study of my first son, myself, my father and my grandfather. Four first-born sons, four generations in all, the same bloodline and possessing the same surname.

In a previous posting I metioned that I wanted to confirm that the same component of a gene is passed from Father to Son in the same way that a surname is passed in our culture. My friend who is a microbiolgist has confirmed that this is true.

My take-out of our conversation - (I am a science dunce) is that apparently the gene is made of a "Double Helix" or two chromosmes of which each contain a sequence of DNA. In males the same 'Y' chromosome containing exactly the same DNA sequence is passed from father to son as long as the generations of males remain uninterupted. If a character was given to each of the little DNA's in the sequence to spell the characters of a word - that word or name on the Y chromosome would always be the same for each sunsequent male in an ancestral lineage.

Now, its has me thinking of the importance of the male ancestral lines as mentioned in Matthew and Luke...

I'm just playing around with an idea but if this were true the same uninterupted genetic surname would possibly stretch all the way from Adam to Joseph then Adam's genetic surname was substituted for that of God at conception (ie. A miraculous Son of God 'Y' Chromosome from God and Son of Man 'X' Chromosome from Mary).

Okay, I probably sound like a "nutter", and I certainly dont subscribe to this as doctrine but the "life a man is in the blood" and there are probably a number miracles as well as natural phenomena that occurred in the miracle of Jesus birth.

Anyway, back to my own bloodline. I may not amount to much in terms of significance as a Christian in my life time but perhaps my own purpose in life is to 'begat' a generation of people who will have some level of significance. Atleast, I have been the first in my ancestral line to make a committment to Christ, I am trying to raise my own kids in the faith, my Father is warming up to it - and my Grandfather (a 'Worshipful Master' in the Freemason Lodge) whom I adore is still alive and hopefully I can work up the courage to talk to him about these things one day.