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Today I was surfing the web and came across a statement in an atheist forum, saying the genealogy of Christ, written about in Matthew, does not prove Him to be the Messiah because the Messiah is supposed to be from the line of David and even though Joseph is from the line of David, he is not the biological father of Jesus so... This line of reasoning made me chuckle because I know that in the Gospel of Luke there is the genealogy of Christ from Mary’s side of the family. So I wanted to find this from scripture and looked it up directly and the way this genealogy is worded was the same as in the Gospel of Matthew and I confess, this shook my faith and brought me to tears and I don’t know why? I’ve known these two separate genealogies for some time, so why today did it shake me to see that in Luke it doesn’t say Mary was the daughter of Heli? After crying to the Lord and searching commentaries and even reading the meaning of the Greek, I found my faith still remains and decided that maybe the devil put some scary thought in my head to make me think I’m crazy for believing what I know is true. I asked God to forgive me for my momentary lack of faith. I was wondering if anybody else experiences things like this?