(July 16, 2012 at 12:19 pm)spockrates Wrote:That's not a Biblical contradiction, that's a Biblical ERROR, evidently written - long after the fact - by someone totally unfamiliar with first-century Roman laws.(July 16, 2012 at 12:15 pm)ElDinero Wrote: What's your basis for saying that it would have taken over ten years? Bearing in mind that ten years is the absolute MINIMUM amount of time, if it started just as Herod was about to cark it and ended just as Quirinus came into office.
This strikes at the heart of why people have been reluctant to participate in your thread. You're given an example and instead of thinking about it as a problem, you stick with your original position no matter what and try to find ways to shoehorn it any way you can, making unsupported assertions along the way.
It would take much time to have everyone in ancient Palestine (men and women) journey to the village or city in which their ancestors were born.
Rome required that everyone return to his place of residence, not his place of birth. That would mean that about 99.9% of the population was already where they had to be. Many - like traders - had more than one "legal" place of residence, so they could also stay where they were. Others - like soldiers and other employees of Rome - were exempt from returning to their places of residence for a census.
So VERY few people would have had to travel. Ten years? Ten months would have been a lot more time than was needed.
Try another useless apologism.
Oh, and while you're at it, how - exactly - did Judas die? IOW, what would the cause of death have been listed as if he had died today? The only way around that obvious contradiction is a lie.