(June 10, 2016 at 8:38 pm)Jehanne Wrote:(June 10, 2016 at 4:27 pm)Godschild Wrote:
You keep harping on this same thing and all you do is post from biased sites on the net. You do no research of your own and you never go to Christian sites to learn. When I went to the site you posted the first thing to come up was the genealogy of Jesus, showing how it's contradictory.
Let's look at he genealogy of scripture, here is the genealogy my Matthew and the one in 1 Chronicles 3:10-12, these are the very same genealogies.
1 Chronicles 3;10-12 Matthew 1:8-9
Asa Asa
Jehoshaphat Jehoshaphat
Joram Joram
Ahaziah (Uzziah) Uzziah
Joash
Amaziah
Azariah
Jotham Jotham
Ahaz Ahaz
Hezekiah Hezekiah
ect. ect.
As you see Matthew didn't write down all the genealogy, Matthew when saying Uzziah was the father of Jotham it can mean he was the father who lead to Jotham. Just as the Bible says that Abraham was the father of a nation or the angel said to Joseph, "Joseph son of David." This was the tradition of the ancient times to refer to a man as the father of a great great great grandson or even more distant. Matthew had a reason to eliminate the names, but what he didn't do was to write them out of order. So there is nothing wrong with Matthew's written genealogy, he for reasons unknown to us didn't include all the names. You need to remember that he had access to the genealogies at the temple and could have written them down as recorded in earlier manuscripts. So in the end there's no contradiction with the two, as I stated previously the writers didn't necessarily put down all the facts because they didn't feel it necessary for the times.
GC
There are some flat-out errors in the New Testament, such as the author of Luke claiming that Quirinius was the Roman governor of Syria:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Census_of_Quirinius
I know all about that and until it's determined what was actually meant it's an open subject. If I get the time I'll research this and see if anything new has developed. You can bet I won't use a source like wiki.
GC
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.