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From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
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Subject: Re: About Literalism: in what sense is Jesus son of David
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Date: Fri, 2-Aug-85 14:41:21 EDT
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>>  One of the criteria for being the Messiah is that the Messiah has to be a
>>decendant of David.  Therefore it's important to establish the geneology of
>>Jesus to determine whether Jesus was or was not a descendant of David.
>>
>>  The only reason I've been able to come up with for having both the lineage of
>>Joseph *and* Mary recorded is to simply show that no matter which side of the
>>parents you chose to establish ancestry Jesus' father and mother both qualify
>>as decendants of David.

> But the genealogies are both of *Joseph*.  That's the point.  There is
> no scriptural authority to ascribe one of them to Mary. [JEFFERYS]

Which leads me to ask the question:  if in all this time we haven't been
bothering to discuss Mary's lineage (just apparently contradictory lineages
for Joseph), what the heck does that matter in determining Jesus' lineage!!!!!
After all, *Joseph* wasn't Jesus' father, GOD was!!!!!  Remember????
Or did you forget all about the "virgin birth", "son of God", and all that? 
*MY* lineage back to David would have as much bearing on Jesus being a
descendant of David as Joseph's lineage would!!!!  Or did I miss something?
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"iY AHORA, INFORMACION INTERESANTE ACERCA DE... LA LLAMA!"
	Rich Rosen    ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr