(November 27, 2018 at 4:19 pm)tackattack Wrote: -Dr. Luke with all of his other accurate and verifiable observations would have been completely remiss in missing a both miraculous and a 10 year pregnancy. Perhaps he was under the assumption that people 2000 years from then would still have a 9 month human gestation, and it would be just as common and unworthy of noting how long it took.
Absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence. I say it was a miracle and you can't prove it wasn't.
Quote:-It is reasonable to conclude that Quirinius could have been appointed to start a census a the time of Jesus' birth and a repeat appointment for the A.D. 6 census .
Not exactly. We knew where Quirinius was at the time of Herod the Great's reign and it wasn't in Syria. He was governor of a province in the middle of modern day Turkey. Also, Rome didn't own Judea at that time. It was an independent client state of Rome. There was no cause to run a census in Judea until its annexation in 6 CE.
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™: True Christian is a Trademark of the Landover Baptist Church. I have no affiliation with this fine group of True Christians ™ because I can't afford their tithing requirements but would like to be. Maybe someday the Lord will bless me with enough riches that I am able to.
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