(December 1, 2018 at 10:42 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote:(December 1, 2018 at 10:35 pm)Paleophyte Wrote: The math doesn't work out because the tale about the census was a post hoc addition so that Jesus of Nazareth could be born in Bethlehem in order to fulfil certain prophecies. The Romans didn't conduct censuses by uprooting the population. That makes no sense whatsoever. The whole point of a census is to figure out how many people are living where, not wherever they were born.
Agreed but my point was the Gospels of Luke and Matthew are on two different timelines and can't be reconciled with each other.
Agreed, and they're on different timelines because different authors added different fictional elements in different places to make the story fit various agendas. It's the same reason that Jesus has two different genealogies. Really piss-poor editing if you ask me.
