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  1. Colt

    how do you feel when threatened with Hell?

    Threats of Hell demonstrate the level of ignorance that any agent of revelation is faced with coming into this savage world!
  2. Colt

    US and UK carry out airstrikes against Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen

    Is that a wide paint brush stuck in his belt?
  3. Colt

    Where were you ...

    I didn't exist yet but my potential to exist was within Gods plan for his creation.
  4. Colt

    What is God's highest priority?

    Your Santa Clause concept of God doesn't exist. If beings are to be free on the evolutionary worlds of time and space then the potential for good and evil, truth and error, joy and suffering are inevitable possibilities. Gods' priority is for his children to grow through experience according...
  5. Colt

    When was Jesus born?

    I asked the question about the census figures of a Quirinius census because there are only 2 references to it that everyone relies on, Luke and Josephus. Some think that it was Josephus, not Luke, who misdated Quirinius's census. The theory is that the Judas whom Josephus associates with a tax...
  6. Colt

    Why won't God go away?

    Because in him we live, move and have our being. But life is infinitely short! It will all be over soon!
  7. Colt

    When was Jesus born?

    I don't need to face any facts; I believe Jesus was born in 7 B.C. BTW, what are the census records of the Quirinius census? Where are those numbers???? Also, Harod the great had considerable trouble from the Jews about taxation. Census numbers along with declaration of assets were the basis...
  8. Colt

    When was Jesus born?

    As the source I provided said, its difficult to actually know who they were counting. Roman history regarding some of this stuff isn't always clear. Its cobbled together and hotly debated among scholars. The absence of anyone named Pontius Pilate in Roman archaeology led many Bible skeptics to...
  9. Colt

    When was Jesus born?

    Luke doesn't give a specific date! A legatus Augusti pro praetore (lit. 'envoy of the emperor – acting for the praetor') was the official title of the governor or general. Quirinius already held the title or rank of Legatus Legionis along with Titius, Saturninus and Varus who governed...
  10. Colt

    When was Jesus born?

    https://www.csun.edu/~hcfll004/romancensus.html
  11. Colt

    God became a man!

    I believe he came to live and revel the Father to all who seek him. The Jews weren't supposed to reject the Gospel and kill the son! Atonement is a Pagan idea that infected Judaism and Christianity.
  12. Colt

    When was Jesus born?

    There were 3 empire wide census under Caesar Augustus, 28 BC, 8 BC and 14 AD. Luke would have been referring to the 8 BC.
  13. Colt

    When was Jesus born?

    You haven't provided any historical evidence, just your opinion.
  14. Colt

    When was Jesus born?

    Your claim that Lukes nativity story is all a myth is just a claim.
  15. Colt

    When was Jesus born?

    It’s in Luke 2. You cannot prove its myth. . 4 So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David.
  16. Colt

    When was Jesus born?

    The counting of the Jews in Palestine was done differently apparently. Luke mentions it.
  17. Colt

    When was Jesus born?

    If I wrote a story today that said in 1975 a U.S. citizen needed to return to the city of his birth to register for the census then the American audience would immediately discount the story! So why make such an easily falsifiable claim if it’s not even critical to the larger story? I don’t...
  18. Colt

    When was Jesus born?

    John fills in stuff missing from the other stories. It’s the need to go to Bethlehem for the census that people question. Someone may also ask why a pregnant women needed to make the trip so close to birth? Why would non Jew Magi from a far away land know something about the Son of God coming...
  19. Colt

    When was Jesus born?

    It's unclear if that was the case, but since Lukes's writing was contemporary to people living in the Roman empire and in the same generation that Joseph lived in, its curious that Luke would have made such a claim if it wasn't valid. Everyone reading Lukes's gospel would have found it odd that...
  20. Colt

    When was Jesus born?

    “The Romans conducted censuses every five years, calling upon every man and his family to return to his place of birth to be counted in order to keep track of the population. Historians believe that it was started by the Roman king Servius Tullius in the 6th century BC, when the number of...
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