The following is a response to sideline's post below which was deleted from the Isaiah 7 prophecy thread after sideline was told there's a Jesus geneology thread. I've not been able to locate that thread and do not intend to open one myself at this time.
Edit: Ok, I found the thread and will post this message over there. My apologies for the waste of bandwidth.
quote: Sideline:
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I am curoius as to how vital the prophesy concerning jesus as having descended from david in a direct blood line was since that was not fulfilled.
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Buzz response:
Check out the following link on the two geneologies of Jesus and Mary. I pretty much agree with it except that it may be possible that the "Joseph" at the end of Mary's geneology could mean that her father's name may have also been Joseph and it ended with him as women were not generally included in geneology lists in the Bible.
http://www.carm.org/questions/2geneologies.htm
[This message has been edited by buzsaw, 10-19-2003]
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