RE: Record few Americans believe in Biblical inerrancy.
December 28, 2017 at 11:01 am
(This post was last modified: December 28, 2017 at 11:04 am by GrandizerII.)
Who cares about the census? Luke's nativity story is suspect because it and Matthew's nativity story clearly contradict (or fail to harmonize) each other on every single detail of their respective stories, except for the part about the virgin birth and Jesus being born in Bethlehem, both explicable by these beliefs being sort of mainstream sometime before the nativity stories were written probably due to common interpretations of the Old Testament verses. The rest of the stories were "made up from scratch", without either "Matthew" or "Luke" being aware of each other's works (or maybe they did but didn't care to support each other), and that's why the two stories have nothing else in common with each other.
