Christians - even the Bible says that Jesus was not God so why do you say he was ?

[John V]

If you need a number, make it around 80%.

Can you support that? It sounds like a guess.

But forget numbers

No, I'm not going to forget numbers. If Luke omitted a significant portion of Matthew, then your position that the omission of parts of Matthew's nativity account is unusual and requires explanation is

But I sense you're not open to seeing that right now. Maybe  in the future you might.

I'm open to seeing it, if you'd just give me the numbers to back it up. You've likely done some googling and found that you were wrong, but are still trying to cling to the position. Since you're unwilling to produce the analysis, I'll do it.

From what I've read, about 70% of Matthew has a parallel in Luke (45% of Matt shared with Mark & Luke, 25% shared just with Luke).
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Since Matt has 1071 verses, that means it has ~321 verses without a parallel in Luke. So, no, it's not an odd thing for Luke to omit parts of Matt's nativity account.

You could say, maybe most of those 330 are in the nativity account. So, let's look at that. The nativity verses in Matt 1 are fairly consistent with information in Luke. The Matt verses omitted by Luke are Matt 2:1-22.

So, Luke omits 22 verses of Matt's nativity account, which means he omits ~300 verses of Matt's other content. Put in percentages, the omitted nativity verses are only ~7% of the total omitted verses.

Conclusion: Luke's omission of parts of Matt's nativity account is not unusual.