About means within 182.5 days of his thirtieth birthday....I guess. Otherwise Luke would have said he was about 31 or 29 or something else.
Thank you for your interest in my posts. I realize my beliefs are not the mainstream....but I just try to take scripture for what it says. I have no problem with tradition unless it contradicts the word.
You know, I just realized that you pinged me into this one and I never actually read the article. Shame on me. I was raised RC and I knew about the indulgences and such, but now that I have read the Bible, this theology looks like it was made up by the little rascals in their clubhouse.
In classic Catholic teaching, forged between the eleventh and sixteenth centuries
A thousand years looks about right to come up with this nonsense.