Matthew's Genealogy Proves That Jesus Can NOT Be Christ!!
The genealogy in the Gospel of Matthew is essential to this Gospel's main theme: that Jesus was the Christ because he was the King of the Jews. But a close look at the Old Testament shows that this genealogy proves the exact opposite of what it was supposed to prove. It proves that Jesus cannot be the Christ (Messiah) because Old Testament prophecies prohibited two of the men in this genealogy from being an ancestor of any King of the Jews.
I've created an 8 minute video that discusses this, and the Old Testament prophecies related to it (Jeremiah 22:28-30 and Jeremiah 36:30)
I hope you enjoy it, and that it gives you some interesting things to discuss with your Bible-believing friends.
You are assuming these fictional characters ever even existed. Would make more sense to examine Batman's geneology -i.e. just exactly what is his relationship with Robyn? Is spiderman a cousin?
He is not assuming that any of it is true. He is showing those who DO believe it is true that it couldn't. You have to play ball on their turf so they will understand.
@DavidLaDeau Well said.
Conservative Christians believe that the Bible is a perfect book which is inspired by their god and is historically, factually and theologically correct in every detail. I am providing reasons, from the Bible itself, why this belief cannot possibly be true.
I'm not trying to be a dick or take away anything from your work, however trying to use this against a bible thumper would be pointless because the title king of the Jews was given in mockery not from any royal bloodline. Now what does get to the bible thumpers that you should look at is historical documentation not in the bible. Both the Romans and the Jews kept records. Both show that Roman officer named Panterra, raped a woman called Mary of the Tower. in those days "of the Tower" meant she was a prostitute. They worked in towers giving the client time to pull up his pants if someone tryed to enter. Roman documents say that Panterra was the Emporers nefew and was moved to another posting, after the local Rabi complained about non-payment. Hebrew records (aka Atiquities) Say that a young Rabi named Joseph married the girl out of pity and was excommunicated for it. They go on to say that three years later Joseph took the child who's name was Jesus to the town Panterra was stationed and spent three days there.
I could provide you with links to this information, but I get the sense your the type of person (like myself) that would prefer to do his own research and not just blindly follow or believe something just because someone said it was true, or accept anothers source that might be slanted to say what they want. Good Luck and have fun with it. Also nice job with your video.
Very good work. I don't normally even listen to videos but I had not heard of this issue before and so learned something from you today.
The only other dodge (other than the desperate one about Mary being a virgin) I can think of is that the passage in Jeremiah cutting off this lineage is irrelevant because there WERE subsequent kings listed that indeed sat upon the throne. But that puts an inerrantist into a very uncomfortable position of having to admit that either Jermiah or Matthew were mistaken.
It seems likely, as you suggest, that Matthew (or more exactly, the anonymous author of the gospel traditionally attributed to Matthew) simply wasn't familiar with Jeremiah or had limited or third-hand access to its contents -- entirely possible in that era where you didn't simply buy a personal copy of a book for chump change, or go to a library to check it out.
He looks Celtic in the picture.
I agree. The "Jesus" in the picture that I use in this video is from the painting "The Good Shepherd", by Bernhard Plockhorst, a 19th century German artist.
Once again, man has created god in his own image.
Mel Gibson is a wanker. Sorry I had to say that.