I have about a a lot relevant texts from Catholic Bible commentaries which I would be glad to post as soon as I gather them together.

In the mean time. I find it almost touching that this so-called atheist skeptic is old-fashioned enough to be abiding by a long-discredited ancient and medieval notion that despite appearances the Gospel of Luke gives the Virgin Mary's, and not Joseph's, line of descent. (That's where the name Nathan comes in as someone from whom SHE supposedly descended.)

Usually the "gotcha!" from Freethinkers in this area has to do with supposed contradictions between the genealogy given by St Matthew and the one given by St Luke. But it's a question of Joseph's genealogy in both cases.

So the idea that Mary descended from Nathan, not Solomon, and that therefore a jot or tittle of Scripture has fallen is just flat-out laughable. We simply don't have a genealogy for the Blessed Virgin.

And if we're going to be really Fundamentalist about Messianic prophecies, who is to say that the Blessed Virgin was not a direct descendent of David through Solomon AND Nathan AND a few of David's other children? These atheists can be so clueless. So one-track. Solomon would have had many, many hundreds of direct descendants living in Israel at the time that Christ was born. He certainly had enough wives.

I already know that the genealogy Luke gives is of Mary, while the one in the Gospel of Matthew is of Joseph. But, this skeptic is saying that the Messiah has be descended from King David via Solomon for which he cites 1 Chronicles 22:7-10. So, basically he is saying is that because Mary, whose genealogy is listed in Luke, is not descended from Solomon but from Nathan that this is 'proof' that Jesus isn't the Messiah.

He also claims that there is no Biblical basis for the idea of a father passing on his tribal line by adoption.

I would really be appreciative if someone could provide a refutation of this guy's claims or direct me to an apologist who could.

Thanks.

Virginal conceptions effected by the Holy Spirit, a Person unknown to the ancient Jєωs, have a way of putting ancient Messianic prophecies in a new light.

There is not always a way to refute Bible Thumper objections on Bible Thumper grounds.

The fact that St Matthew traces Jesus' royal Messianic lineage through Joseph, whom he knew did not beget him the way David begat Solomon, is enough proof for believing Christians that this makes Jesus Son of King David through King Solomon, whatever further considerations there may be about the Virgin Mary's lineage and Jesus' literally being of the seed of David.

The atheistic Bible Thumper is expecting people to quake and quail over his own personal misreading of a verse in Chronicles, as though the Holy Ghost and Saint Matthew were not well aware of that verse.