Norman Geisler and Thomas Howe published a really cool book called When Critics Ask. It is a handbook listing all the alleged discrepancies in the Bible while providing logical answers to each of them.
For those of you asking “Who are the Geisler and Howe folks?” Well, Dr. Geisler is the dean of the Southern Evangelical Seminary. Howe is an associate professor at the same school – oh, and he has a M.A. in Biblical Studies from Liberty.
Satisfied? Good – let’s move one.
In their book, Geisler and Howe state that the lines in Matthew and Luke:
..are two different lines of ancestors, one traced through His legal father, Joseph, and the other through His actual mother Mary. Matthew gives the official line, since credentials which required that Messiah comes from the seed of Abraham and the line of David (cf. Matt 1:1). Luke, with a broader Greek audience in view, addresses himself to their interest in Jesus as the Perfect Man (which was the quest of Greek thought). Thus, he traces Jesus back to the first man, Adam (Lude 3:38).
Is Geisler and Howe correct? Are we talking about two different lines?
Join us tomorrow for more information. 
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