Existence of Israel is fulfillment of Biblical prophesies

[theophilus]

You've convinced me that you haven't even read your fucking bible. The genealogy of so-called jesus is given in Matthew 1:17 and Luke 3:28 So in both cases it is JOSEPH who is the relation to the primarily fictional David but, as you guys point out at length....it wasn't Joseph's dick that got in there. So where is the relation?

I have read the Bible and in fact I have discussed this subject several times on other forums. If you compare Matthew and Luke you will see that Matthew tells of the birth from Joseph's point of view and Luke tells it from Mary's. Matthew tells us how Joseph reacted when he learned Mary was pregnant and Luke tells how Gabriel appeared to Mary and told her she would have a son. It would be consistent with this emphasis for Matthew to give Joseph's genealogy and Luke to give Mary's and that is what happened.

Breaking up genealogies into male and female representations was acceptable in the ancient Near East culture since it was often impolite to speak of women without proper conditions being met: male presence, etc. Therefore, one genealogy is of Mary and the other of Joseph--even though both mention Joseph. In other words, the Mary geneaology was counted "in" Joseph and under his headship. Second, do any critics actually think that those who collected the books of the New Testament, and who believed it was inerrant, were unaware of this blatant differentiation in genealogies? Does anyone actually think that the Christians were so dense that they were unaware of the differences in the genealogy lists, closed their eyes, and put the gospels into the canon anyway hoping no one would notice? Not at all. They knew the cultural context and had no problem with it knowing that one was of Joseph and the other of Mary.

You can read more about this here:

http://www.carm.org/bible-difficulties/m...and-luke-3

If you study the genealogies you will find that Mary was a descendant of David through his son Nathan so Jesus was a biological descendant of David. Joseph was descended from Solomon and so was in fact the heir to David's throne. Since Jesus was legally Joseph's son because Joseph was married to Mary when he was born he inherited from Joseph the right to be the king of Israel.