From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!CAD:tektronix!teklabs!mikec
Newsgroups: net.religion
Title: Genealogy
Article-I.D.: teklabs.1823
Posted: Mon Mar 14 18:26:35 1983
Received: Fri Mar 18 02:03:27 1983

(Response to rocheste.924!FtG)

  Actually, the genealogy of Jesus is in far worse shape than
that. For example :

    Matthew 1:16 "And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary,
                 of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ."

    Luke 3:23    "And Jesus himself began to be about thirty
                 years of age, being (as was supposed) the son
                 of Joseph, which was the son of Heli,"

  Thus Joseph (the father of Jesus) appears to have two fathers.

  Furthermore :

    Matthew 2:1  "Now when Jesus was born ... in the days of
                 Herod the king ..."

    Luke 2:2..11 "And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius
                 (Quirinius) was governer of Syria. ... And
                 Joseph ... with Mary ... being great with
                 child ... which is Christ the Lord."

  The contradiction is that Herod died in 4 B.C. while the census
of Quirinius occurred in 6 A.D.

  Moreover Matthew 1:6..7 claims that Jesus was a descendant of
David's son Solomon while Luke 3:23..31 claims that Jesus was a
descendant of David's son Nathan.

  Jesus is not mentioned outside of the Bible and the Dead Sea
Scrolls showed that virtually all of the so called "wisdom" that
Jesus supposedly preached was common knowledge centuries earlier.
Biblical Scholars are not all convinced that Jesus even existed.

  Anyone interested in how poor and circumstantial the historical
evidence for Jesus really is should consult the following books :


    Pagan Christs by J.M. Robertson  1967 University Books

    The Historical Evidence for Jesus by G.A. Wells  1982
    Prometheus Books (the author is a New Testament Scholar)


Micheal D. Cranford
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