(October 14, 2013 at 8:45 am)DeistPaladin Wrote: 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.Seems to me you desperately want to find a problem where none exists in the actual text.
Quote: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...Er, no - a few sentences is nothing close to an entire fan fic. you know this, yet you keep saying it.
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 thereSee - a few sentences, which aren't even necessary as you invented the problem in the first place.