New Year, Same Quiz…Just for Fun
March 7, 2008
Last February was our first year on the net so not many came across this Easter quiz. I still think that organized religion as a whole makes about as much sense as rabbits laying eggs… Of course, if you are one of our fine readers that know your history, then you know that Easter was celebrated long before Jesus came along which means that you already know about the rabbits and the eggs…… Read more
The Birth of Jesus - Matthew vs Luke
March 10, 2007
Matthew Chapter 1
A great deal of the opening chapter of Matthew deals with the lineage of Jesus, which differs from the lineage given to us by Luke in chapter 3. They cannot even agree as to who the father of Joseph is as Luke says Heli and Matthew says Jacob. Both geneologies are provided to claim that Jesus was a descendant of King David. Of course, this is useless, as Joseph was not the biological father of Jesus. To get around this, some will claim that the geneology in Luke belongs to Mary, thus creating a lineage from David to Jesus. The problem with this is that Jewish tradition kept track of the lineages of the males, not the women.
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