Does the Bible Contradict Itself?

[Minimalist]

And if you could pay attention you would see that Matthew has Herod the Great alive when your godboy was born and Luke puts it a minimum of ten years later.

Herod and Quirinius are both historical figures. There is no way to reconcile the contradiction between these two passages.

If you'd quit trying to move the goalposts you would see that you have your one contradiction.

Deal with it.

Doesn't one have to comprehend something before she knows how to deal with it? If you are willing to take a closer look with me, perhaps I'll be able to see what you see. I will then tell everyone who has ears to hear that I once was blind, but Minimalist set me free!

At this point you seem completely incapable of understanding anything.

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.

Now, from this we can deduce that you have never even read your own bullshit.

What Luke says is

2 In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. 2 (This was the first census that took place while[a] Quirinius was governor of Syria.) 3 And everyone went to their own town to register.

4 So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David. 5 He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child.

It is probably is well past time that you understand that we read this shit, too, precisely to combat the idiocies of nuts who show up here spouting bullshit. The difference is that we do not read them with the holy blinders on.

This, from a bunch of bullshit bible thumpers clearly shows that your fellow xtians are simply less dishonest....although no less wrong...than you.

Luke. 2:3 “So all went to be registered, everyone to his own city.”

YLT: “and all were going to be enrolled, each to his proper city,”

Literal Meaning: “everyone to his own city” indicates that everyone returns to his registered ancestral home town.

Many foolish excuses have to be made to get "Joseph" from "Nazareth" to Bethlehem to fulfill an absurd prophecy which does not exist, either.

On such stupidities is xtianity based!