Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site uwmacc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!unc!mcnc!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!dubois From: dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (Paul DuBois) Newsgroups: net.religion.christian Subject: Re: About Literalism: in what sense is God ... (correction) Message-ID: <1278@uwmacc.UUCP> Date: Fri, 12-Jul-85 20:59:42 EDT Article-I.D.: uwmacc.1278 Posted: Fri Jul 12 20:59:42 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jul-85 14:46:10 EDT References: <184@gymble.UUCP>, <626@umcp-cs.UUCP> <568@hou2b.UUCP> <318@utastro.UUCP> Organization: UW-Madison Primate Center Lines: 28 > > Regarding the two genealogies given for the Lord, I'm supprised that > > it is not commonly known that they are for His forebears through His > > mother's and step-father's families. > > It is amazing the lengths to which people will go to rationalize a > plain contradiction in scripture. "...known that they are...?" > By whom? Where is the evidence for this? The words in scripture are > clear enough: > > Matt 1:16 says: "And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary" > > Luke 3:23 says: "Jesus...the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli..." ...Judah the son of Jacob ...Judah the son of Israel ...Joshua, son of Nun ...Oshua, son of Nun Reuel, the father-in-law of Moses... Jethro, the father-in-law of Moses... -- | Paul DuBois {allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!dubois --+-- | "More agonizing, less organizing." |