RE: Christians - even the Bible says that Jesus was not God so why do you say he was ?
October 27, 2015 at 10:44 am
(October 27, 2015 at 10:40 am)alpha male Wrote:(October 27, 2015 at 10:14 am)Irrational Wrote: Account, alpha male, I said account. I never said there won't be any common words at all. Be sure to understand my point first before considering dishonesty on my part. The accounts are not similar.As I noted, the two accounts share several key points. "Similar" is ambiguous. It will end up a false dichotomy with you on one side and me on the other.
Quote:And verse similarity doesn't help because there were no verse numbering back then,Neither were there chapters, or headings, or agreed-upon "account" divisions, but you need to use some such system to do an account analysis.
These key points which are:
Bethlehem (based on a verse in Micah)
Virgin: Based on an unfortunate mistranslation of the verse in Isaiah
Joseph and Mary: common news at the time
But notice about the angel appearance: Matthew says he appeared to Jospeh, but Luke says he appeared to Mary.
And, alpha male, anyone not blinded by the "inerrancy" of the Bible can see that the nativity accounts are drastically different (even considering the few words you mentioned).