RE: Christians - even the Bible says that Jesus was not God so why do you say he was ?
October 23, 2015 at 11:57 am
(October 23, 2015 at 11:25 am)alpha male Wrote:(October 23, 2015 at 11:19 am)Irrational Wrote: Except it's necessary until a better explanation comes along. Your explanation is not really parsimonious as it doesn't, for example, account for the differences between the genealogies that well. You have to add all sorts of unwarranted assumptions to reach the conclusion you want to make.
As noted, what needs an explanation is the similarities.
And the differences. Don't be selective. If "Luke" had access to "Matthew", why did he write in a way as if he had no idea of Matthew's first couple of chapters? Why does his proposed genealogy contradict that of Matthew's in chapter 1? And why do the nativity stories seem like two very different stories that were trying to explain, each in their own way, how Jesus was supposedly born in Bethlehem but then got moved to Nazareth? Luke doesn't even pretend to acknowledge that Matthew 1 and 2 were ever written?
Even if we went along with your explanation that he had access to Matthew, what it really says is Luke didn't fully agree with Matthew and actually corrected him.
