Comparing The Bible In The Bible

The Bible is a large and rather confusing book of laws, parables and true stories. The most important story in the Bible, in the story of Jesus ' birth. These two passages which tell of Jesus ' birth are, especially because Christians, at least the majority of them, base their beliefs on it, along with his death. Matthew and Luke are the only two books out of the sixty-six in the bible which give detailed descriptions of the monumental event. There is the main idea in American culture that the Birth story is clear, that there are not any issues between Matthew and Luke 's stories. However, there are many conflicting facts in the two books, although most of them are easily thought, though, there are some that are a little harder to explain,

In Matthew, it does exactly state the location at the time of the birth, when the Magi go to visit Jesus, they are led to a house in Bethlehem (Matt 2:7-11 NRSV). However, there is no timing for context, this could have accorded directly after the birth or a year later. Therefore, the place of birth could very well have been in the same place and then later Joseph, Mary and Jesus moved into their own home where the Magi could have visited them. The Magi in Matthew and the Shepherds in Luke also do not contradict each other in the slightest, as it is quite possible that they were two separate events in time. The fact that the Magi are exclusively in Matthew and Shepherds in Luke, is odd, however, it can still be explained by the authors being two different individuals with divergent views on what is important in one

Because it is quite different in the two books, for one thing, Luke and Matthew have different ending points. Matthew only traces the line from Abraham, whereas Luke goes all the way back to Adam. This is not a real issue but it is interesting why they would choose to do this in such different manners. The real issue is the fact that, there only a few names that match between the two. In fact, between Jesus and David only two names match, Shealtiel and Zerubbabel. This could be a real issue for believers, except for the fact that it does not really matter. Joseph was not Jesus ' true father, that is the basis of the Christian faith. This begs the question, why did Matthew and Luke both put this genealogy in if it does not pertain to Jesus in the slightest? Because that is just how it was done, when someone of great importance was written about, the history of that person 's ancestors was also given. Matthew and Luke would not have thought to not give the genealogy, it was a tradition, even if the genealogy they gave was to someone not related to