(August 12, 2013 at 2:51 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: Yes they say different things teg. one, Matthew is based upon the father's line. Luke is based upon the mother's. I think it's Jewish tradition that the blood line goes through the females. That would explain the different emphasis.
You got it backwards. They trace through the father and it explicitly says it's traced through Joseph in both books.
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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).
