(October 17, 2013 at 1:23 pm)John V Wrote: It's telling that you don't speak of simple facts, such as date of death of a ruler or date of a census.You mean Herod who died in 4 BCE and Quirinius who came to administer Syria in 6 CE? Why would 70 CE Christians be educated and savvy enough to know these exact dates? There was no Roman tradition that forced people to relocate to their home town. Neither was there a tradition of releasing criminals during the Passover, certainly not insurrectionists. However, I could believe that Christians wouldn't necessarily know that.
And all this assumes that the Gospels we have today are faithful representations of what they had then (I know of at least one significant alteration in Mark 16).
There's no reason to think the Middle East was populated by well-educated fact-checkers who cried "false" in the public square over any historical inconsistencies.
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