The Choice: Islam and Christianity

(^134) Is The Bible God s Word?
comb to catch him. It is Joseph the carpenter. You will also
easily observe that the lists are grossly contradictory. Could both
the lists have emanated from the same source, i.e. God?
FULFILLING PROPHECY?
Matthew and Luke are over-zealous in making DAVID the King,
the prime ancestor of Jesus, because of that false notion that
Jesus was to sit on the "THRONE OF HIS FATHER DAVID"
(Acts 2:30). The Gospels belie this prophecy, for they tell us that
instead of Jesus sitting on his father's (David’s) throne, it was
Pontius Pilate, a Roman Governor, a pagan who sat on that very
throne and condemned its rightful (?) heir (Jesus) to death.
“Never mind,” says the evangelist, “ if not in his first coming,
then in his second coming he will fulfill this prophecy and
three hundred others beside.” But with their extravagant
enthusiasm to trace the ancestry of Jesus physically to David,
(for this is actually what the Bible says — THAT OF THE
F R U IT OF HIS (David's) L O IN S , A C CO R D IN G TO THE
FL E SH ” (literally, not metaphorically Acts 2:30), both the
“inspired" authors trip and fall at the very first step.
Matthew 1:6 says that Jesus was the son of David through
SOLOMON, but Luke 3:31 says that he (Jesus) was the son of
David through NATHAN. One need not be a gynaecologist to tell
that by no stretch of the imagination could the seed of David
reach the mother of Jesus both through Solomon and Nathan at
the same time! We know that both the authors are confounded
liars, because Jesus was conceived miraculously, without any
male intervention. Even if we concede a physical ancestry
through David, both authors would still be proved liars for the
obvious reason.
BREAKING PREJUDICE
As simple as the above logic is, the Christian is so emotionally
involved that it will not penetrate his prejudiced mind. Let us
give him an identical example, but one where he can afford to
be objective.