About other gods-question for theists

[Jenny A]

(In reply to Jenny.) Your evidence isn't contrary to the bible story. Honestly, I'm not qualified to debate every alleged inconsistency in the bible, so I leave it to other more learned apologists.

http://www.biblestudytools.com/classics/...egypt.html

I'm not theologian or expert in Roman history, though I do have an interest in Roman history and I read. But anyone with a mind, and I'm sure you have one, is equipped to evaluate the claims of apologists. You have access to the same tools they do: the Bible and history. They do no more than make arguments based upon those two things.

BTW Your link does not address the problem of the date of Jesus' birth considering the date of the census and the vitals of the various possible Herods. It addresses various other discrepancies. Including: why the slaughter of the innocents is not mentioned in contemporary records (a problem given the detail in which history records the atrocities of Herod the Great) and how Joseph got word of Herod's death (not really a problem in my opinion). It also cites some very strange dates:

But if his birth be placed late in 749, as we place it, His return from Egypt must have been in the early summer of 750.

Pardon my French but WTF? That would be about 700 years late and after the fall of Rome.