(March 14, 2014 at 4:00 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote:(March 14, 2014 at 2:25 pm)discipulus Wrote: You cannot say the gospels are "completely different and then say "except"..Allow me to qualify my statement: completely different in major respects.
The except negates the completely.
Quote:And so what if they were completely different? Different and contradictory are not the same.
Now if you have a contradiction to point out then do so. Differences in details do not necessarily equate to contradictions in details.
The Gospel of Luke says that Joseph brought them to Jerusalem after Jesus' circumcision and the days of purification prescribed in Leviticus 12:2-8. "And when the time came for their purification according to the law of Moses, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord." (Luke 2:22).
The Gospel of Matthew says they did not go. Joseph was afraid to go to Jerusalem because he feared Herod's son Archelaus, who was then ruling in Jerusalem. "But when he heard that Archelaus reigned over Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there, and being warned in a dream he withdrew to the district of Galilee. And he went and dwelt in a city called Nazareth." (Matthew 2:22-23)
Ok, now watch this...
Read Luke 2:39-40.
Tell me what you see.
