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Mary did not ask for a sign to show that she was going to have a baby. Zachariah needed proof
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Jesus' statement in Luke 23:43 is not so much about the afterlife or what's required of us to get into heaven. It's primary purpose is to depict Jesus' death as undoing the curse of Adam.
Luke presents Jesus as a new Adam.
This is beyond a doubt the purpose in Luke's placement and arrangement of Jesus’ genealogy. Unlike Matthew who places his genealogy ...
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Whatever the solution to this problem, and there are good solutions, It appears to me that Luke mentions Quirinius at least in part to connect Jesus’ birth in the mind of his original readers with the census of A.D. 6. Here’s why
The census that year sparked a major Jewish revolt. Luke knows of this event because he refers to it in Acts 5:37.
After this ...
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You might find this discussion at the "Christian Think Tank" interesting. As I understand it, the writer and some of the sources he quotes find it possible that Quirinius was a "de facto" governor before he was officially so:
I assume you mean contemporaries in office--they were certainly contemporaries in life...Quirinius, at the time of King Herod's ...
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According to wikipedia, there is no name of the person who was the Roman Governor of Syria listed for the time specific period in question (4-1 BC). Is it possible that an individual with the cognomen of "Quirinius" was governor for the time in question?
Please note that...
Gaius Sentius Saturninus was governor between 9-7/6 AD
Lucius Volusius Saturninus ...
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