<p>8:42 <i>Jesus said to them: If God were your Father, you would love me. For I came forth and am come from God. For neither have I come of myself, but He sent me</i>- It is impossible to love God without loving His Son, Jesus (Jn. 8:42); and 1 Jn. 5:1,2 is alluding to this, saying that this principle means that we can't love God without loving <i>all&nbsp;His</i> sons, those who are in Christ, the Son of God. Christian disillusion with Christianity&nbsp;is disobedience to this. If we think we can love God while disregarding His sons, we are making the same mistake as the Jews; they confidently thought they could love God and disregard His Son. And this faulty logic led them to crucify the Son of God.</p><p>The fact that Jesus was humanly fatherless has been extensively commented upon by Andries van Aarde. He points out that: &ldquo;Against the background of the marriage arrangements within the patriarchal mind-set of Israelites in the Second Temple period, a fatherless Jesus would have been without social identity. He would have been excluded from being called a child of Abraham, that is, a child of God. Access to the court of the Israelites in the temple, where mediators could facilitate forgiveness for sin, would have been denied to him. He would have been excluded from the privilege of being given a daughter in marriage&rdquo;. Behold the paradox. Because He was the Son of God, He was written off by Israel as not being a child of God; because He was <i>the</i> seed of Abraham, He was rubbished as not being a son of Abraham. We can now understand better how He could attract other social outcasts to Him; we have another window into the fact He never married; we appreciate more deeply the significance of His offering forgiveness and fellowship with God to those who were outside of the temple system. He could offer a new social identity to people on the basis that He knew what it was like to be without it. All this is confirmed in the Biblical record. This is why the Jews accused the Lord of being both not a &ldquo;child of Abraham&rdquo; and also illegitimate&rdquo; (Jn. 8:42), a &ldquo;sinner&rdquo; (Jn. 9:16). And He was also called a &ldquo;Samaritan&rdquo; (Jn. 8:48). According to the Mishnah, &ldquo;&hellip; they are the people of uncertain condition, with whom one may not marry: those of uncertain parentage, foundlings and Samaritans&rdquo;. Refusing to declare Joseph as His father meant that the Lord would&rsquo;ve been unable to marry, at least not any girl from a religious family.&nbsp;See on Jn. 19:9.</p>