(May 8, 2016 at 1:56 am)Minimalist Wrote:(May 8, 2016 at 1:23 am)Irrational Wrote: Then why the fuck did he not copy the nativity story from Matthew or even acknowledge it?
Because he wrote his own...for a different audience. A Greco-Roman audience who didn't give a flying fuck about Herod or Moses but who might relate to real Roman figures like Augustus and Sulpicius Quirinius.
The most important thing you can do to begin to understand this shit is to utterly dismiss the fiction that the church has put out.
Then why didn't he do that with the rest of what he supposedly copied from "Matthew" and made such copied content appeal more to the Greco-Roman audience?