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What I found interesting was that in Matthew people are given messages in dreams while in Luke it is through angels in real life.
So in Matthew, Joseph has a dream of an angel, the wise men had a dream and then Joseph did again. (angels are mentioned later though)
In Luke, Zacharias is visited by an angel, then Mary, then shepherds, then the shepherd were visited by many angels.
I was wondering why they seem so different..... did the writers know all of the stories and Matthew's writer just decided to write about dreams in the Christmas stories while Luke's writer just decided to write about angels in real life?
I get the impression that Matthew and Luke came up with two sets of independent stories - one with the dreams and the other with the real life angels. What do Christians think?
So in Matthew, Joseph has a dream of an angel, the wise men had a dream and then Joseph did again. (angels are mentioned later though)
In Luke, Zacharias is visited by an angel, then Mary, then shepherds, then the shepherd were visited by many angels.
I was wondering why they seem so different..... did the writers know all of the stories and Matthew's writer just decided to write about dreams in the Christmas stories while Luke's writer just decided to write about angels in real life?
I get the impression that Matthew and Luke came up with two sets of independent stories - one with the dreams and the other with the real life angels. What do Christians think?
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