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Originally Posted by Apocrypha
is this about geneology "A" and geneology "B" in the gospels about our Lord?
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Almost everyone knows that the genealogies in Matthew and Luke differ. The traditional answer for that has been that Luke represents "Mary's" genealogy and Matthew gives us Joseph's. The reasoning why it's not the other way around is usually a bit sketchy. Also no explanation is offered as to why both gospel writers neglected to inform their readers about whose genealogy belonged to whom.
In any event, being descended from the House of David, it's only common sense to expect the ancestral lines to converge at some point. However, these lines converge and then separate again. Repeatedly.
The "Zerubbabel Question" is this:
How can Zerubbabel (Zorobabel from the NT Greek) the son of Salathiel be descended from BOTH of David's sons: Nathan AND Solomon - along the paternal line?
That is, father-to-son, father-to-son, and so on. Draw up a chart and try to work it out. It can't be done. Or in other words, it could not have happened.
I chose Zerubbabel because he is a prominent OT character (See
Ezra 3:2;
Nehemiah 12:1-47;
Haggai 1,
Haggai 2 and
Zechariah 4:6-10). Zerubbabel also follows the Nathan/Solomon split but appears long before Mary the mother of Jesus was involved.
He represents "data." The Bible is communicating simple data here. How are we to understand this information? Although no "Great Doctrines" are directly involved, how we handle this data will affect the way we handle other information in the Bible as well.
If you can't answer the "Zerubbabel Question" from the framework of your own methodology (something like Fundamentalist Literalism), then there's something wrong with your methodology.
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