Common misconceptions about Christianity.

[ManusJustus]

garvey0 said:

ManusJustus said:

Jirakon said:

Though the Bible was written by 40 authors over thousands of years, it's still incredibly coherent within itself.

Matthew and Luke couldn't even write about the birth of Jesus without contradictions, and they knew the guy!

Just look at Matthew's and Luke's geneology of Jesus. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genealogy_of_Jesus

Matthew and Luke knew that Jesus needed to be the decendent of David and born in Bethleham to fulful prophecy, but you would think that they would get together when they wrote about his geneology instead of just making it up on their own.

Just a quick clarification, luke did not know Jesus.  He was a companion of paul who wrote his account based on research: "...since I myself have carefully investigated everything from the beginning, it seemed good also to me to write an orderly account for you..."(Luke 1.)

I hold to the belief (as many others also do) that the genealogy in luke's Gospel is of mary (while matthew's is of joseph.)  The wikipedia page you provided gives some information on this belief and there is other information that can easily be found elsewhere on the internet.

Both Luke and Matthew's geneology is inaccurate with the Old Testament geneology of David.  So whatever way you go about it, the Bible is erroneous.  You would think that if you were going to write an infaliable book, they could have bothered to read first chapters.