(October 14, 2013 at 8:33 am)John V Wrote: No, the simplest answer is "We don't know." Your answer adds complexity.I think we've reached a point where we need to agree to disagree. You desperately want Matt and Luke to be reconciled and so you want to gloss over this and other problems.
Quote:You keep saying this, yet my speculations involved a few sentences. Why do you keep lying about this?Oh my goodness, how shrill. Lie down. Take a few deep breaths. Go to your happy place. When you're ready, we can go to the tape...
Quote:Putting Matthew and Luke together, we have Jesus born in Bethlehem, the family staying there for six weeks, a return to Nazareth, and then a return to Bethlehem. We don't know what went on in the six weeks in Bethlehem. Maybe Joseph saw opportunity there, or met family thereThis is fan fic writing. Were you to flesh out the basic plot you've outlined, it would be a most elaborate story.
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"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
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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
