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Not really. What you are claiming is distorted is the the idea that Luke was referring to a 6AD census when he strongly indicates elsewhere that he believed the birth occurred around 4BC. I accept that he believes the birth occurred around 4BC. This leaves us with 4 possibilities: 1. Luke was refer...

I fail to see any practical reason for raising data like that. Provoking some kind of mass movement of the population is also a security risk. That would be an ideal cover for a revolt. Presumably, 3 times each year, between 2 and 3 million Jews travelled to Jerusalem merely for holidays. Can you t...

Because we are dealing with fairy tales, we may say that the events in Matthew and Luke took 2 days or twenty years, as we wish. This is an unnecessary and bigoted remark. It is also an obviously false remark, characteristic of low education. Apparently you don't have enough mental horsepower to st...

That's why we got the song, "Age of Acquarius" in the 60s, decades before the exact date of the new age. God you still blab ignorance even when you're not talking about the Bible. The " Dawning of the Age of Aquarius" was well understood at the time to precede the astronomical c...

I did not mean it to be derogatory towards either you or Mormons. I just wanted to clarify if that matched your beliefs, since what you wrote describes the Mormon belief about God. Fair enough. My beiefs are nothing like any denomination you can muster. It's a combination of mostly Christian, Jewis...

You're not even trying to have a proper conversation. But it seems that almost the whole forum is out there to have a proper conversation with mental flatliner. But maybe I missed the point :confusedsmiley: You know that my English is not very good Thus the confusion. Each participant in the forum ...

My use of Daniel is solely to point out that Babylonian astronomers could have predicted hundreds of years in advance that the equinox would precess into Pisces in the decade of the 20s. They certainly had the knowledge and data and ability to achieve this prediction, given the use of their data by...

And how exactly am I lying? I clearly stated above that "BBL" was the correct phonetic spelling for Babel. Rubbish. It has nothing to do with phonetics. You are talking utter nonsense. "BBL" is merely a transliteration of the Hebrew characters. This is as far as I read. I dictat...

Not really. In any case, you claim to have isolated Luke's sources. Would you care to show why you think you've done so? You're lying about reading my prior posts. This has been asked three different times, and I gave the same answer each time. Wrong again, Mental flatliner, about calling me a liar...

Luke 1:1 states clearly "these things that have been accomplished among us". It does not say "among them". It doesn't say what "these things" are, either. If you look what this "accomplish" actually means, you might get an idea. Luke 3:1 gives the general are...