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To: GunRunner

I think you need to be more specific but I did find this if it helps.

http://christianthinktank.com/quirinius.html


253 posted on 02/07/2014 2:09:17 PM PST by BrandtMichaels
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To: BrandtMichaels
That's quite a Rube Goldberg explanation. But it's more likely that Luke was just wrong, as we know for a fact that Quirinius was not Governor during Herod's reign.

We also know that the Roman census would not have required anyone to travel to their ancestral city for a census, since they would be taxed where they lived.

Matthew doesn't even bother with the gymnastics; he just has the family living in Jerusalem in a house.

The point is that it's a story, not history; provably so.

256 posted on 02/07/2014 2:15:22 PM PST by GunRunner
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