(February 9, 2016 at 2:21 pm)Minimalist Wrote:Quote:Actually the whole census narrative was shoehorned in pos hoc to get Joseph and Mary to Bethlehem for the birth (to fulfill prophesy).
Did you ever read that "prophecy," Constable?
Micah 5 and it is about someone who would defeat the Assyrians in the late 8th century BC. Has nothing to do with fucking "jesus."
Of course not. But it doesn't mean that the author of Matthew (and I'm sure most of his fellow Christians) didn't see it that way.