RE: Christians - even the Bible says that Jesus was not God so why do you say he was ?
October 26, 2015 at 8:17 am
(October 23, 2015 at 11:57 am)Irrational Wrote: 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?He didn't see need to repeat it.
Quote:Why does his proposed genealogy contradict that of Matthew's in chapter 1?Because one is of Joseph, the other Mary.
Quote: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?Again, he didn't see need to repeat it.
Quote: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.No, it says that Luke added additional information and saw no need to repeat Matthew's account.