To make Luke\u2019s genealogy Mary\u2019s, one would have to say that what Luke meant<\/em> isn\u2019t what he wrote<\/em>. And once one has attributed a mistake to an author, one has finished with inerrancy anyway, and so one has done nothing to defend the Bible\u2019s accuracy.<\/p>\n So here\u2019s the real question: Why are people still trying to use this as a solution? Why, for some Christians, is affirming that the Bible is inerrant more important than taking seriously what it actually says?<\/p>\n As I work through assignments related to the infancy narratives in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, I am surprised how many students quote other sources claiming that Matthew gives Joseph\u2019s genealogy while Luke gives Mary\u2019s. There is only one major problem with this suggestion: it isn\u2019t what these Gospels say. Both give genealogies that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-3022289310824107655?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\")