Is it not also reasonable that Mary simply called the child “a supernatural cause” due to the extreme shame and ostracisation that would be involved with having sex and giving birth outside of marriage (especially with regards to the context of the time)? If Jesus = Jeshua = God saves, how does Jesus = Immanuel …

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Is the genealogy accurate? (in Matthew 1). Does it have to be?  How should we approach differences and inconsistencies in this genealogy? For example, the missing names compared to the OT or differences between this genealogy and the one found in Luke 3?  What is the significance of the number 14? Seems quite an arbitrary …

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