Christians - even the Bible says that Jesus was not God so why do you say he was ?

[GrandizerII]

Doesn't have to be a Q anymore. It wasn't a strange thing for ancients to make references to texts that we no longer have any access to.

Aside from Matthew 1 and 2, Luke copied even more from what's found in Matthew (including what's in Mark) and saw the need to repeat them rather than come up with a totally different account. Why the exception then for Matthew's nativity story? It is very odd this very clear deviation.

Repeating the bare assertion isn't support. What percentage of Matthew is found in Luke?

And one other thing: Luke never said Heli was Mary's father. Luke said Heli was Joseph's father. Don't make stuff up.

I've acknowledged that punctuation (they didn't use much if any back then - the reader needed to infer it) must be added to support that position.

Come on, it's pretty obvious that Luke repeats most of what Matthew said. If you don't like the word "most", replace it with "significant amount". But this isn't up for debate anyway.

What you should consider is why there is an exception for Matthew 1 and 2 in that Luke doesn't seem to be aware of the nativity account from Matthew.

And what's that excuse about lack of punctuation? Even so, no Mary in there anyway.