How do you know God isn't dead?

[smax]

I intentionally leave a couple of simple, yet irrelevent mistakes. I demand that you edit my post. And you do!

In the real world, that's a called a bitch. I didn't coin the term, I'm just familiar with it. Don't kill the messenger.

Anyway, you are wrong about those scriptures, and that's why you aren't breaking them down contextually. Because you know you can't make your case that way.

Instead, you just deflect by questioning the meaning of the text.

and Jacob the father of Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom Jesus was born = Jacob is Joseph's father

Jesus was about thirty years old when he began his work. He was the son (as was thought) of Joseph son of Heli = Heli is Joseph's father

In both cases, Joseph (Jesus father and Mary's husband) is clearly indentified and different father's are given.

Also, one can't help but notice how you ignore the fact that Joseph's lineage is irrelevent if Jesus was truly conceived of the holy spirit. Even to the writers of the writers of the writers of the Bible, a virgin birth just doesn't make sense, so they included Joseph's lineage!

It's almost as if someone said:

"Let's see if this whole virgin birth goes over well. If not, we can always just say that Jesus was Joseph's really extraordinary son! What do you say, fellas!"

By the way, tossed a few mistakes in there for you. Have fun little buddy!