Article March 7, 1970 Issue

Our True Parentage

FREDERICK J. BRIGHT

Some individuals show an excessive interest in their human ancestry. Genealogists are sometimes employed to trace the family tree. One may wish to know if his ancestors came with the Conqueror or on the Mayflower. If it is discovered that his forebears made both of these excursions, his humility might come under such an intolerable burden that he would become difficult to live with!

Often such human records are found on the flyleaves and inside covers of family Bibles, but there is ample evidence in the adjacent pages of the Book of books that one's human lineage or descent is of no real importance when Christianly and scientifically considered.

The book of Malachi asks, "Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us?"^{Mal. 2:10;} Christ Jesus, complying with a request by his disciples to teach them to pray, began the prayer with the words, "Our Father which art in heaven."^{Matt. 6:9;} Later he counseled a gathered multitude, including his disciples, "Call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven."^23:9;