(June 12, 2016 at 5:38 pm)Minimalist Wrote:Quote:2 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed.
2 (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)
3 And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.
Luke 2
No. He did not. And it would have been about the stupidest thing anyone ever did anywhere if he had.
Augustus was many things but stupid was not one of them.
In that, G-C, he differs from you.
There is only one explanation, and that is that the anonymous author of the Gospel of Luke, writing near the end of the 1st century, made a major historical blunder. The Bible is not inerrant, that is, without error.
