What Min said. I tend to favor the scenario of a story building over time and the way these urban legends work is someone mishears something and half remembers something else and it the story is so embellished. Someone heard Jesus the Nazirite (the pure or the holy) and assumed he must come from Nazareth.
Matt and Luke came along later with their own fanfic explanations. Matt has Jesus' living in Bethlehem, fleeing to Egypt and settling in Nazareth. Luke has Jesus' family living in Nazareth, moving to Bethlehem for some unlikely census, she gives birth there and then they went back home.
Matt and Luke came along later with their own fanfic explanations. Matt has Jesus' living in Bethlehem, fleeing to Egypt and settling in Nazareth. Luke has Jesus' family living in Nazareth, moving to Bethlehem for some unlikely census, she gives birth there and then they went back home.
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"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
