In the opening chapters of the book, the gospel of Matthew attempts to tie Joshua to Jewish history by creating a genealogy divided into segments of fourteen, starting from Abraham. "So all the generations from Abraham to David were fourteen generations, and from David to the deportation to Babylon fourteen generations, and from the deportation to Babylon to the Christ fourteen generations." (Matthew Chapter 1 verse 17) The obvious point being made here is that Christ came at just the right time, thus making all those fourteens turn out just perfect. The only problem here is that if you consult the book of Chronicles, you will see that the author changes the geneology and drops a number of names, when it is convenient, in order to get those fourteens to turn out right. So someone proved to be quite nimble in the use of scriptures, even from the very first chapter of the book. (This is one of the reasons that Matthew's genealogy conflicts with the genealogy found in the gospel of Luke, which, by the way starts from ‘Adam', not Abraham, because Luke is concerned with showing that Christ was ‘savior of all humanity' and ‘son of Adam, son of God' and is not concerned with ‘the Jews only,' which is one ideological outlook found in Matthew's gospel.) Chronicles lists 18 names, where the Matthew genealogy drops 4 and only lists 14. Compare, starting at 1 Chronicles Chapter 3 verse 10 with Matthew's genealogy starting at Matthew Chapter 1 verse 6.This is not the only example of conflicting genealogies in the Bible. The falsified genealogy that opens the book of Matthew is an interesting enigma. (For more information on the problems such genealogy introduce see the page on chronological problems in the Bible comared in chart form to Matthew's genealogy or the page on conflicting genealogy of the Bible. In Matthew's version of the lineage of the messiah we are told that Christ was descended from both Rahab the harlot (a Gentile in Jericho) and Ruth the Moabite (another Gentile). In other parts of the book we are told that Gentiles are dogs and also that the Torah, which also condemns Gentiles, is infallible, perfect, and without error, right down to the last dot over the last letter 'i'. The genealogy is obviously false in many ways (the story of Rahab the harlot is separated by a lot more than just a generation from that of the time of Ruth). It is interesting to note that the author of this genealogy mentions men, which is characteristic of all other Bible genealogies, and then makes a point of mentioning a harlot and a (supposedly eternally cursed) Moabite woman. This brings the geneology into conflict with the portrayal of Gentile women as dogs later in the gospel (and introduces moral hypocrisy, in that Christ, was descended from Gentile dog women, then had the hypocritical nerve to snub them as dogs. It makes no sense.) The function of this genealogy and the time of its composition remains mysterious to me, but it obviously could not have been composed by the same groups who rejected David and rejected gentiles and considered Gentiles dogs, and held the Bible to be 'infallibly inerrant' (that the author of this genealogy falsified the Bible in more ways than one is obvious on consideration of that genealogy, and so a mind set of Biblical inerrancy is out as far as that author was concerned - the genealogy was obviously a polemic of some kind.) I bring to mind just to point out to the reader just how complex the Matthew manuscript proves to be on examination. Internal inconsistencies revealed
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The origins of the Virgin Birth story
Was Christ a god incarnate? Differing view points in the Church Testament.
Gentile dogs in Matthew's gospel. The Canaanite and Syro-Phoenician dog parables.
Samaritans, a Roman Centurion and Jews in Matthew's gospel. Was Christ sent to the Jews only?
Contradictions on Torah reform in the Gospel of Matthew.
Moral hypocrisy in Matthew's gospel.Why the Matthew community
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Did the prophet Isaiah predict the virgin birth of Christ?
Was Jesus Christ the Son of David or the Son of God?
Virgin birth? Son of David or Son of God?
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