RE: Ask, Seek, Knock
October 18, 2012 at 11:40 am
(This post was last modified: October 18, 2012 at 11:40 am by Tea Earl Grey Hot.)
(October 18, 2012 at 9:41 am)Drich Wrote: ....Yet Luke in the geneology itself places doubt on the genetic claim that Joseph would have on Jesus. Then from Joseph starts back with Mary's father. (as their wasn't a jewish word for father in law.)
It doesn't say that. You're reading into the text that it means Mary's line.
Quote:Then show me 'proof' that says this is made up. I am sure we are not the only two atheist Christian who have argued this point. It would not be hard for one of you to shut this arguement down if it is made us as you say it is.
Use a source that backs up assertions with evidence! The closet thing to evidence on that page was an allusion of Josephus.
Here's what you haven't provided evidence for: a practice of tracing genealogies through the mother's line while mentioning only the father.
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"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
