RE: Totally NOT a debate about the veracity of the gospels
March 14, 2014 at 4:15 pm
(This post was last modified: March 14, 2014 at 4:17 pm by Mudhammam.)
(March 14, 2014 at 4:07 pm)discipulus Wrote:(March 14, 2014 at 4:00 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: Allow me to qualify my statement: completely different in major respects.
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.
I see them traveling from Bethlehem to Jerusalem to Nazareth. Maybe the author of Matthew's Gospel confused Egypt with Jerusalem? Or maybe he just constructed the whole Egypt scene to give the illusion of a "fulfilled prophecy" that fit the pattern of his theological narrative?
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza
