RE: Totally NOT a debate about the veracity of the gospels
March 14, 2014 at 5:30 pm
(This post was last modified: March 14, 2014 at 5:39 pm by Mudhammam.)
(March 14, 2014 at 5:20 pm)discipulus Wrote:(March 14, 2014 at 5:14 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: *sigh*
We're not talking about Matthew omitting details, which is suspicious enough, we're talking about him flatly contradicting Luke by specifying that the holy family purposely avoided Jerusalem after Jesus' birth.
*Sigh*
And I told you Matthew's account takes place well after Jesus was born. Jesus at the time was well over two years old.
Take that into account.
So the Gospel according to Discipulus should read that Joseph took his family from Nazareth to Bethlehem (for some totally dubious census never known to occur under Augustus), then to Jerusalem, then back to Bethlehem, then Egypt, and finally home to Nazareth! Uh, why was the journey to Egypt necessary again, other than for allegory?
Why would Herod be slaughtering infants in Bethlehem over two years after Jesus was born? Why wouldn't Joseph just return to Nazareth instead of hanging around Bethlehem or Jerusalem for two+ years? And why does Luke say they arrived in Nazareth from Jerusalem instead of Egypt?
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