I personally don't put much confidence in any details in the NT, unless they can be properly verified from other credible sources. We can speculate about the NT authors' motives, but I don't think its enough to say "they wouldn't have made this bit up because..."
They may have had any number of reasons for making jesus be from somewhere, or do some obscure thing, that are no longer apparent to us. We know they were trying really hard to fit him to prophecies, these other details could have been related to other esoteric reasons to make his divine nature believable. I don't know. But I'm not comfortable personally on accepting validity just through examination of motives.
They may have had any number of reasons for making jesus be from somewhere, or do some obscure thing, that are no longer apparent to us. We know they were trying really hard to fit him to prophecies, these other details could have been related to other esoteric reasons to make his divine nature believable. I don't know. But I'm not comfortable personally on accepting validity just through examination of motives.
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