Your thinking here is absolutely true. Suppose for a moment that there was a real Jesus of biblical times. His lineage is given for a reason although one gospel distorts it somewhat. They were looking for an Earthly King and not a heavenly one. When Mary is said to be impregnated by the "holy spirit of god" this is a way of saying that Joseph was that person and explains the controversy. It happens in our modern world all the time and people marry later. In the bible it explains why the lineal heritage was given. Books of the bible NT being written long after the fact, the myths (and changes) started to set in and you see what we have today in churchworld.

1. The Bible contradicts science and even contradicts itself! (There’s 2 creation stories).

2. Caucasians, Native American, Asian, Africans...... None of these races were in the Middle East before modern times!

Most Americans can NOT in any conceivable way be “Sons Of Abraham “. !!!!!!!

The Bible is NOT OUR BOOK!

Hey Joe.

Another little interesting fact is that in early Middle East civilization, it was not uncommon for them to measure time by the number of MOONS, rather than by the year, so someone who is said to have lived 900 "years" in this case only lived to 75. But I think that the authors were smoking some serious shit or eating mushrooms, because they mixed both systems of counting.

Very interesting, I think you have found one more contradiction in a huge pool of contradictions in the 2000 year old book of bull shit.

As pointed out below, there are two different lineages described in two different books, with differing numbers of generations. This is a minor detail compared to the main point that the "lineage" from David was conjured up to fulfill messianic prophecies from the Torah in the first place. The NT was explicitly written to tie in the books of the OT, which is why so many Bibles have footnotes pointing out precisely which verses are being referenced.

For example, in John 12, Jesus is said to ride into Jerusalem on an ass specifically because it's a prophecy from the Torah. "And Jesus, when he had found a young ass, sat thereon; as it is written, Fear not, daughter of Sion: behold, thy King cometh, sitting on an ass's colt. These things understood not his disciples at the first: but when Jesus was glorified, then remembered they that these things were written of him, and that they had done these things unto him. (John 12:14-16) This is a paraphrase of Zechariah 9:9, "Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass."

Another way to sum up all these "prophecies" is, "Jesus did it because it was written, and because it was written, he did it."

Logic and religion?

Actually, it's TWO conjured-up fairy stories, as the books of both Matthew and Luke trace the lineage from David to Jesus, but while Luke details 43 generations, Matthew only details 28, with very little commonality among the names listed. Pick your poison, I guess.