If the bible is the word of God...?

Question

If the bible is the word of God and is 100% correct how come in the gospel of Luke and Matthew they write two diffirent bloodlines for Jesus. Both cannot be correct but if the bible is God's word they must. How can that be?

For people that say it is because the two had diffirent intepretations then how can the rest of the bible be trusted. If that part is wrong or based on interpretation how can the rest of Jesus' story be trusted?

If one is about Joesph and the other about Mary then that would mean they have some common ancestors going back only a generation. Isn't that incest? So isn't that a sin?

Answer 1

There are all kinds of contradictions in the bible.

Answer 2

I will just tell you my take on the whole religion and Jesus thing. i went to a catholic school for more than half my life. After hearing everything they had to say more than once my conclusion is that ALL religions are story created by uneducated humans coming up with explanations for all that the world is. Just look closer at the stories. Every plague or whatever still happens today. The big events that happened are the rare events that will happen every like thousand years. But of course, this is just my opinion.
In no way can I say that there is no god, but Just look at all the different religions out there. If there were one true god, don't you think he would have made sure that the entire world would follow his word?

Answer 3

This is an excellent example of how a so-called "Biblical discrepancy" can appear to be such a clear misstatement of the facts, with hardly any imaginable explanation, ...but after a more thorough investigation, it is explained why no contradiction has taken place at all and that there is actually a very legitimate and provable explanation.

The first seventeen verses in the first chapter of Matthew give the genealogy of Jesus through Joseph, while Luke 3 presents the genealogy of Jesus through Mary. Through these genealogies, it is revealed that Jacob is the father of Joseph (Matt 1:16), while Heli is the father of Mary (Lk 3:23). The reason Mary is not mentioned in Luke’s genealogy is because Luke follows the Hebrew tradition of mentioning only the names of males. Hence, Mary is designated by her husband’s name. And so all indications are that, in Luke 3:23, the phrase “son of Heli” (literally “of Heli”) refers to Joseph as Heli’s son-in-law! As reflected in this example, the term “son” has a variety of meanings in the Bible. It can signify: (1) son by actual birth; (2) grandson; (3) descendent; (4) son-in-law; or (5) son by creation, as in the case of Adam (Lk 3:38). (For example King Saul, David’s father-in-law as stated in 1 Samuel 18:27, called David “son” in 1 Samuel 24:16).

Answer 4

God is unique, and complex. God' s word is 100% true. It is just that, the gospel according to Luke and the Gospel according to Matthew. He used two people with two points of view to tell the same story.

Answer 5

I am confident that if God thought that incidental errors of Jesus' lineage would prevent anyone from joy on earth and joy in Heaven, then he would have made sure that no errors in documentation or translations would ever be printed.

The Bible is the inspired word of God. The history that Matthew or Luke include may in error without erroding God's message and plan for our lives. God is perfect. The Apostles were not and He never promised that He would edit incidental errors out of His Word. Did he?

Man serving God will continue to be imperfect. Yet God remains perfect in power and love.

Answer 6

Even though Joseph was not Jesus' biological father, he is included in the bloodline to show that Josephs' bloodline went back all the way to Abraham.
The bloodline found in Luke traces Marys' geneology all the way back to Judah!

Answer 7

Because Matthew wrote the book of Matthew, and Luke the book of Luke. The two gospels are just different intepretations of what they saw and heard. They also saw and heard different things, and at different times, which is why the two books are not identical. They are similar, but not the same.

Answer 8

Matthew and Luke are written by two different men, from two different view points. In fact all four of the gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John , are written by four different men, each writing from their own view. Each man wrote how they viewed things, how they saw things, what they saw and heard. Imagine you and a group of your friends going out for an evening on the town. I bet each one of you would view things a little differently, that's why each of these books are different, everybody looks at things differently. While one person may be looking at what caused a wreck and center a story on that, another might center his story on the chain reaction it caused, still another the victims.

Answer 9

Bible is the word of MEN .. they were not inspired by God .. the only Book which is 100% the word of God is Qur'an .. which says:
[4:82] Do they not consider the Quran (with care)? had it been from other than God, they would surely have found therein much discrepancy.

Answer 10

because He came from both bloodlines, Mary and Joseph are distant relatives and no a distant relative is not sin

Answer 11

because the bible wasn't written by God. it was written by men.

And more importantly, the books that were chosen to be put into the official 'bible' were chosen by men at the Council of Nicea.