Just 2 quick things:
"and he shall be known as emanuel"
This is obviously a decision that Joseph took. Manny Christ is just too Jewish but he knew that Jesus would be popular with Hispanics.
Jesus bloodline:
If Jesus is the son of Joseph then the claim he is part of David's bloodline could stand. If he is the son of God it can't - he is not a descendent of Joseph.
However:
Here we see how this was all written by people who weren't all that bright and didn't have access to the information we have today:
David preceded Joseph and Mary by around 40-50 generations. If we assume David's line survived at all (not unreasonable- he was a king afterall) and do a simple - each generation has 2 surviving children we see that the numbers become enormous. By the time of Joseph it would be almost impossible for a member of a self isolating small group like the Jewish population to not be a descendant of David.
In other words - Mary must have been a descendant of David. Now I would not expect Matthew to understand this - but God should. All he had to add after the lineage was "so Joseph was a descendent of David, as was Mary" and everything would have been covered.
That this was not written shows us that there was no divine inspiration in the writing of the gospels (or that the intelligent God isn't actually all that bright).
Game over.
"and he shall be known as emanuel"
This is obviously a decision that Joseph took. Manny Christ is just too Jewish but he knew that Jesus would be popular with Hispanics.
Jesus bloodline:
If Jesus is the son of Joseph then the claim he is part of David's bloodline could stand. If he is the son of God it can't - he is not a descendent of Joseph.
However:
Here we see how this was all written by people who weren't all that bright and didn't have access to the information we have today:
David preceded Joseph and Mary by around 40-50 generations. If we assume David's line survived at all (not unreasonable- he was a king afterall) and do a simple - each generation has 2 surviving children we see that the numbers become enormous. By the time of Joseph it would be almost impossible for a member of a self isolating small group like the Jewish population to not be a descendant of David.
In other words - Mary must have been a descendant of David. Now I would not expect Matthew to understand this - but God should. All he had to add after the lineage was "so Joseph was a descendent of David, as was Mary" and everything would have been covered.
That this was not written shows us that there was no divine inspiration in the writing of the gospels (or that the intelligent God isn't actually all that bright).
Game over.
