Luke 1:1-4
Luke Researches and Writes About Jesus
1 Many have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us, 2 just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses and servants of the word. 3 With this in mind, since I myself have carefully investigated everything from the beginning, I too decided to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus, 4 so that you may know the certainty of the things you have been taught.
Luke 3:23-38
Jesus Lineage
23 Now Jesus himself was about thirty years old when he began his ministry. He was the son, so it was thought, of Joseph,
the son of Heli, 24 the son of Matthat,
the son of Levi, the son of Melki,
the son of Jannai, the son of Joseph,
25 the son of Mattathias, the son of Amos,
the son of Nahum, the son of Esli,
the son of Naggai, 26 the son of Maath,
the son of Mattathias, the son of Semein,
the son of Josech, the son of Joda,
27 the son of Joanan, the son of Rhesa,
the son of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel,
the son of Neri, 28 the son of Melki,
the son of Addi, the son of Cosam,
the son of Elmadam, the son of Er,
29 the son of Joshua, the son of Eliezer,
the son of Jorim, the son of Matthat,
the son of Levi, 30 the son of Simeon,
the son of Judah, the son of Joseph,
the son of Jonam, the son of Eliakim,
31 the son of Melea, the son of Menna,
the son of Mattatha, the son of Nathan,
the son of David, 32 the son of Jesse,
the son of Obed, the son of Boaz,
the son of Salmon, the son of Nahshon,
33 the son of Amminadab, the son of Ram,
the son of Hezron, the son of Perez,
the son of Judah, 34 the son of Jacob,
the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham,
the son of Terah, the son of Nahor,
35 the son of Serug, the son of Reu,
the son of Peleg, the son of Eber,
the son of Shelah, 36 the son of Cainan,
the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem,
the son of Noah, the son of Lamech,
37 the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch,
the son of Jared, the son of Mahalalel,
the son of Kenan, 38 the son of Enosh,
the son of Seth, the son of Adam,
the son of God.
Genesis 2:19-20
Adam Names the Animals
19 Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name. 20 So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals.
Genesis 11:31
Abram from Ur of the Chaldeans
31 Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, the wife of his son Abram, and together they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. But when they came to Harran, they settled there.
One of the great wonders of the world is the written language...Man's first written documents whether on stone or stone cylinders or parchment is intriguing subject...As time went on man wrote more and more...We are told two things in Genesis...One is that Adam named all the wild animals, and the other is that Abram, or Abraham was from Ur of the Chaldeans, which is near Sumer...And from older written documents, we often use those we read and investigate as research materials...
By the time St. Luke started writing man was well into writing...St. Luke made a careful study of everything he had heard and read about Jesus, and decided to write about it -and put it in print for the Honorable Theophilus...St. Luke did this to let Theophilus and us know the truth, about what we have read and heard...Luke studied these things and was two thousand years closer to man's earliest times than we were...And he tried to give us a historical perspective on things, as he wrote his gospel and the Acts of the Apostles -two thousand years ago...Luke was one of our first historical-type authors, as he included places, people's names, and other historical artifacts in his books that we can make reference to today...
Luke gives us the ancestors of Jesus, so we can do an approximate age of man and the world's creation if you believe in God and the Book of Genesis, and that God created the world and the beginning of the universe at that time...Some estimate Adam arrived around 4,000 b.c....By going through Genesis, and the generations of Jesus grandfathers, we probably can decide that the earth is five thousand to ten thousand years old, if we literally believe in Genesis and what St. Luke lays out here...Luke would have gotten some, if not a lot, of his material about Jesus out of the Old Testament and some from Genesis...And maybe he read some other written sources...
There are many who say that the world is billions or millions of years old, but one interesting fact that always seems to be left out is the details of when and how man began to write...Did language, then pictures on walls happen next, and then writing and reading...Many experts say that Luke wrote his Gospel According to St. Luke around 60 a.d. or later...It is a rather complex document...Luke could write, but man could not always write...In fact, because there were no formal schools, writing and similar writings did not take place until education and schools were common...One piece of evidence is that Luke would have studied other writings as well as people in doing his research...Where did Luke get this lineage of Jesus?...Did he get it from something written down?...Were there different languages for Genesis and different stories in different languages about Adam?...My guess is there were oral stories and oral traditions in different oral languages of Genesis and Adam and Eve...
Luke had to learn about what he wrote from someone or some other writings...And then he would have to know how to read...What different things would Luke read about Jesus?...He needed to be able to read and write in able to research about Jesus...Luke knew about Moses and the creation story...Luke is writing about his ideas, and putting things down and documenting them, whether he got them from scrolls, parchments, people, or something else...Luke refers often to the Old Testament, and that was a part of his study and the work he did for the two books he wrote, the Gospel According to Luke, and the Acts of the Apostles...The first Son of God as Luke describes is Adam in his genealogy...Adam (as did Eve), seemed to be able to communicate with God...Adam and Eve communicated together, and they fell together by communicating together, when they sinned together in the Garden of Eden...And in the Garden of Eden, Adam would given the ability to name the animals...He would know words to name each of the living creatures...Somehow Adam had a long list of names for all the living creatures...
Their is evidence in this naming of the living creatures...I am alluding to that the people who believe that man and the earth is a twelve billion years old or even a million years old, fail to give us reasons why man around the Near East, especially Sumer, Egypt, and areas like China start to write at about the same time...Did the brain of our living ancestors all evolve around the same time?...Some believe man first wrote in Mesopotamia, near Sumer, around 3200 b.c....And Sumer is not far from Ur, the home of Abram...Isn't that an interesting coincidence?...And many believe Adam and Eve arrived around the time of 4,000 b.c. to 10,000 b.c....
We do know that writing just started one day -it had to...How was man just able to read and write around the same time?...And even though there is no agreement on whether the oldest of writings were in Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, or somewhere else where a man was communicating with each other and beginning to write...But wherever this first author who wrote his first topic was said to be around a century or even a thousand of years before Moses wrote Genesis...And maybe writing started near or around the time of Adam and Eve's arrival on earth...So evolutionists who believe that the universe is between twelve to fourteen billions years old, how or why did man just all start writing about the same time approximately six to eight thousand years ago?...What was man doing the first ten billion years before that?...Were we just evolving as the evolutionists believe?...Was man just looking for something to say, or just looking for something to write on?...It seems very interesting that for the first fourteen billion years, all of man could not read or write, and then within a few hundred of years before Moses writing Genesis, around the time of Adam, that men all over the Near East and China started to write around the same time...And they do not write in one language, they were starting to write as one would think they would write, they wrote differently, as one might think they would write, as according to the Tower of Babel in different languages...
Luke did write thousands of years after the very first writers and authors, but he somehow he knew Jesus family tree...He also knew what Moses wrote and was closer to those writings -two thousand years closer- than we were...He also knew that Moses wrote about a prophet to come, a Messiah...In fact Luke would write about some of the things the Messiah would fulfill from the Old Testament...Jesus was the One to come...Luke would write his books from a historical perspective, and was aware that others wrote and had tried, to write about the Messiah from their own perspective, and own style long before Jesus came to the earth...There is this evidence for God when man began to both read and write...This maybe the the reason why there have been no documents found earlier than have already bee found, that were written that are a million years old...This would be true if there were no men on earth until God put Adam and Eve on earth...