(November 9, 2010 at 1:40 pm)Minimalist Wrote: READ them ..."son of" "son of" "son of" (bar in hebrew). Not a single" bat" (daughter of ) in the whole list. In fact the only bats around here are two Batshit crazy xtians who have hallucinations.
They are different because they were made up by different authors.
Min how naive of you, a history buff that does not know that in ancient times it was through the fathers that the lineage was written. Mothers were mentioned mostly when it came to specific persons or when a line through a man divided because of different wives of that man. Matthew wrote Joseph's lineage and Luke wrote Mary's linage. Do you really believe that the men who canonized the NT were so stupid that they would not have seen the differences, just because we are christians doesn't make us stupid, though I'm sure you do not.... NO can not see that.
You are right the lineage came through two different authors but they were not made up, the Jewish people were very meticulous when it came to keeping their lineages, again as a history buff you should have known this. I'm beginning to think age is getting to you, may want to take some vitiamins or something.
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
