A useless genealogy

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Ray
I agree with the point that a geneology of Joseph was useless
because Jesus
was not of his seed. Matthew certainly thought Jesus was the
messiah
though. I think Helms was here just trying to show the mind of
Matthew
being tied to the fulfillment of prophesy, even though Helms
thinks Matthew
must have realized a seed based geneology was meaningless. You
point out
that Matthew skipped some generations but that supports the idea
that he
was tied to this numerology bit. Biblical authors loved magical
number
combinations. It is also possible that Helms gives Matthew too
much credit
in saying he must have realized a geneology of Joseph was stupid.
Maybe
Matthew just wanted it both ways; seed of David and virgin birth.
It just
seems to me your argument is really with Matthew rather than Joe
or Randel
Helms.

Regards, Ray

RevGaud
OK, I see what you and Joe were trying to say. I would have loved
arguing with Matthew, but I'm not fluent in Greek, so you and Joe
had to do. ;-)

Reverend G. R. Gaudreau
<grgaud@bigfoot.com>
<http://campus.fortunecity.com/defiant/666/>

P.S.    I still say the genalogy was useless. :-)

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