(August 29, 2013 at 6:36 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Even Quirinius' census would not have extended to friggin' "Nazareth" which apparently did not even exist at the time and later on, when it was founded, was in Galilee which was not part of the new praefecture of Judaea.
Xtians have fucked this up to a fare-thee-well because by the time these silly gospels were written no one remembered the political situation at the beginning of the first century.
http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/r...inius.html
Enjoy.
The Greek word for “first” in Luke 2:2 is protos and can be translated “before.” Thus Luke 2:2 could actually be translated, “This was the census taken before Quirinius was governor.
http://www.gotquestions.org/Quirinius-census.html