Record few Americans believe in Biblical inerrancy.

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No classical scholar believes the story in Luke

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There are major difficulties in accepting Luke's account: the census in fact took place in 6 AD, ten years after Herod's death in 4 BC; there was no single census of the entire empire under Augustus; no Roman census required people to travel from their own homes to those of distant ancestors; and the census of Judea would not have affected Joseph and his family, living in Galilee; most scholars have therefore concluded that the author of Luke's gospel made an error.[5]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Census_of_Quirinius

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