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Sorry, but that interpretation only came about because the two contradict each other. There is no clear statement that either is Mary's line, they both appear to be Joseph's. And both nativity tales are clearly fictional, though it is hard to say which one is worse. I vote for Luke's because he has Jesus born in both roughly 4 BCE and 6 CE.
That would all depend upon where in the world they're teaching. I can assure that that the missionaries in Japan, for example, do not witness only to Christians. It would be a huge waste of their time if they did. If it seems like they"target" Christians, it's probably because the vast majority of people in the U.S. that describe themselves as believing in God at all are Christians.
That might be a good thing since it reads as if it were written either by a psychotic or someone on a bad acid trip.
LOL! I am almost of hippie age. And I did try it once.
I was about minus 20 at the time.
You were somewhere between -10 and -6 when I tried it. An interesting evening. Really stupid stuff was funny. I felt the risks did not merit another time.
LOL, seriously the reason that many atheists are atheists is due to a better understanding of the Bible. You appear to treat it as a book of magic. It is hard to take someone's interpretations seriously that thinks that at one point in time that there were only two people or that there was a worldwide flood.
Some people have a need to read the gospel story literally because it promises everlasting life for merely believing. However there are people that don't care to play a role in the big story and believe so that they too can join Jesus because they don't believe the world works that way, some how to the annoyance of those that do.
"I can tell you one things . . . Christians can't count". UnquoteI can tell you one things . . . Christians can't count
“For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth” (Matthew 12:40)
Some believe that Christ’s “three days and three nights” statement does notrequire a literal span of 72 hours, reasoning that a part of a day can be reckoned as a whole day. Thus, since Jesus died in the afternoon, they think the remainder of Friday constituted the first day, Saturday the second and part of Sunday the third. However, only two nights—Friday night and Saturday night—are accounted for in this explanation. Something is obviously wrong with the traditional view regarding when Christ was in the tomb.
If Jesus were in the tomb only from late Friday afternoon to early Sunday morning, then the sign He gave that He was the prophesied Messiah was not fulfilled.