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1 | 14generationsMt1:17?2 Chron counts more | Rom 3:23 | littlegetloud | 207404 | ||
My question is about Matthew 1:17. The Bible Gateway Commentary states that Matthew lists only 13 generations from the Babylonian exile to Jesus but I believe they forgot to count Jesus as a generations. The real question is: why does Matthew state that there are only 14 generations from David to the Babylonian exile when the list of kings in 2 Chronicles and 2 Kings clearly shows that the genealogy in Matthew is skipping over some folks after the first Uzziah all the way to another man named Uzziah who finally fathers Jotham? I understand that it is very Jewish to skip over names if they were not noteworthy, but why wouldn't Matthew at least report the math accurately? I had a lot of fun studying the geneology in Matthew chapter 1 and truly learned a lot, but when I got to verse 17 and realized that it doesn't account for the generations that Matthew skimmed over, I was baffled? Is there a cultural thing I am misunderstanding? | ||||||
2 | 14generationsMt1:17?2 Chron counts more | Rom 3:23 | Val | 207405 | ||
I will address your question "why would Matthew at least report the math accurately? The biblical chronologists were concerned "to make plain the inner meaning of history as opposed to a listing... It wishes to detail the relationship of a people to its God and to show the inevitable effect in history of the character of that relationship." - John N. Oswalt, "Chronology of the Old Testament," in International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, 1:673 The biblical writers sometimes moved back and forth chronologically in recording historical events; they did this for the purpose of developing particular themes. The fact that chronology was of secondary interest to them does not imply, however, that they were not concerned with accuracy. As Craig Blomberg says, "A careful analysis shows that no two Gospels contradict each other's chronology." - Craig L. Blomberg, "The Legitimacy and Limits of Harmonization," in Hermeneutics, Authority, and Canon, 157 The claim of Israel in the Old testament that they had actually encountered God in history would surely suggest careful concern for historical accuracy. Moreover, biblical accuracy has been increasingly verified by recent scholarship. - Oswalt, "Chronology of the Old Testament," 673 Benjamin Warfield's advice is "Our individual fertility in exegetical expedients, our indivudal insight into exegetical truth, our individual capacity of understanding are not the measure of truth. If we cannot harmonize without straining, let us leave unharmonized." -Warfield, The Inspiration and Authority of the Bible, 219 The doctrine of the inerrancy of the Bible rests not on our ability to demonstrate it, but on its own teaching of its full inspiration, including that of our Lord. - James I. Packer, "Problem Areas Related to Biblical Inerrancy", in the Proceedings of the Conference on Biblical Inerrancy 1987 (Nashville: Broadman, 1987),207 "That the Bible is true in what it says is not a matter of doubt, but what exactly we should be saying about the persons and events referred to in the Bible is not always clear for lack of supplementary information. I do not believe that the honor of God requires me to have an answer, and a complete answer for everything." - Ibid. The bible teaches that it is the product of the breath of God (2 Tim. 3:16) and therefore is truthful in its entirety. In a letter from Augustine to Jerome he expressed his attitude of trust that should condition our approach to the problems of the Bible. "And if in these writings I am perplexed by anything which appears to me opposed to truth, I do not hestitate to suppose that either the MS (manuscript) is faulty, or the translator has not caught the meaning of what was said, or I myself have failed to understand it." - Augustine, The Letters of St. Augustine 82-83 A straightforward consideration of all that the Bible teaches about itself yields a doctrine of inerrancy. No data disproves this fact. |
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3 | 14generationsMt1:17?2 Chron counts more | Rom 3:23 | DocTrinsograce | 207416 | ||
Hence post #148850... from what seems like ages ago! | ||||||