Seeing that we just celebrated the birth of Christ, I thought it might be cool to look at the discrepancy in the Gospels as to Jesus’ genealogy. =)
The Discrepancy:
Pick up a Bible and turn to Matthew 1:1-17 and Luke 3:21-38. A close look at each passage will show that while they both claim to recount Christ’s genealogy, they in fact don’t match!
This can cause problems if you are claiming that the Bible is without error… of course, if you think the Bible has errors, then it’s not a problem at all!
The Story Line:
I remember asking a pastor or church leader (ok, my memory isn’t that good) about these passages many years ago…. Hmmm.. or maybe it was a sermon… ok. I don’t know when or where, but I did hear the line that one of the gospels was listing Mary’s line while the other was listing Joseph’s genealogy.
Is this true?
Follow with me as I take a look at this alleged discrepancy. =)
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