A useless genealogy
errancy@infidels.org errancy@infidels.org
Fri, 7 May 1999 13:21:01 EDT (00926115661, acdc775d.24647afd@aol.com)
In a message dated 5/7/99 12:09:10 PM Eastern Daylight Time, grgaud@sprint.ca
writes:
<< "According to the flesh" and "out of thy bowels" are not
expression that indicates a legal adoption by Joseph. We know
that Joseph wasn't Jesus' biological father, because of the claim
that he was virgin born. It follows from this that Matthew's
genealogy is useless in establishing Jesus' credentials as
Messiah, because according to the verses above, Jesus had to be a
direct physical decendant of king David in order to qualify as
such. My question is: If Biblegod is omniscient, why would he
"inspire" Matthew to include a genealogy in his gospel which is
totally useless? >>
It looks as though they wanted to get the best of both worlds,
"virgin birth," and good old geneology for the skeptics in the audience.
Jesus was "King of the Jews" in addition to being the "Savior." Of course,
from the wording I would suspect this to be a problem more suited to
Kaopectate than geneology.
Cheers, Jean