Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site utastro.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!unc!mcnc!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!ut-sally!utastro!bill From: bill@utastro.UUCP (William H. Jefferys) Newsgroups: net.religion.christian Subject: Re: About Literalism: in what sense is God ... (correction) Message-ID: <318@utastro.UUCP> Date: Sun, 7-Jul-85 12:46:17 EDT Article-I.D.: utastro.318 Posted: Sun Jul 7 12:46:17 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 9-Jul-85 07:15:39 EDT References: <184@gymble.UUCP>, <626@umcp-cs.UUCP> <568@hou2b.UUCP> Organization: U. Texas, Astronomy, Austin, TX Lines: 22 > 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..." -- "Men never do evil so cheerfully and so completely as when they do so from religious conviction." -- Blaise Pascal Bill Jefferys 8-% Astronomy Dept, University of Texas, Austin TX 78712 (USnail) {allegra,ihnp4}!{ut-sally,noao}!utastro!bill (uucp) bill%utastro.UTEXAS@ut-sally.ARPA (ARPANET)