10-16-2003, 11:39 PM
Dave Wrote:You use scripture to make sound decisions and let GOD's word prove itself.
Good advice, Akhi - now follow it yourself!
If the scripture says "Yosef is the son of Heli", then who gives a rat's (*expletive*) about what church fathers say about the issue?
If you choose to follow your own wise advice above, and you are of sound mind - then you can come to no other conclusion but that Luqa is recording the lineage of Yosef, the husband of Maryam. He says it is, in clear and straightforward language....any language.
That must mean Mattai's lineage is that of Maryam. And the solving of the 14 generations problem with that wonderful word, Gawra.
+Shamasha Paul bar-Shimun de'Beth-Younan

