Even Jesus's birth is a made-up story. When the Gospels were written many
years after Jesus's death, nobody knew where he had been born. An Old
Testament prophecy Micah 5: 2 said to expect that the Messiah would be born
in Bethlehem. In the light of this prophecy John's Gospel specifically
remarks that his followers were surprised that he was not born in Bethlehem,
but came out of Galilee. The Gospels of Matthew and Luke handle this problem
differently. They decide that Jesus must have been born in Bethlehem after
all. But they get him there by different routes. Matthew has Mary and Joseph
in Bethlehem all along, moving to Nazareth only long after the birth of
Jesus, on their return from Egypt where they fled from King Herod. Luke on
the other hand, acknowledges that Mary and Joseph lived in Nazareth before
Jesus was born. So how to get them to Bethlehem at the crucial moment in
order to to fulfill the prophecy? Luke says that Caesar Augustus decreed a
census for taxation purposes, and everybody had to go to his own home city.
And, that Joseph was out of the house and linage of David and therefore had
to go to the city of David which is called Bethlehem. That's the story, even
though David had lived a thousand years before.
Other Gospels have their share of implausible stories. The Gospel of Thomas
has numerous anecdotes about the child Jesus abusing his magical powers:
transforming his playmates into goats, or turning mud into sparrows; or
giving his father assistance by lengthening a piece of wood.
Bottom line - it's all made up for fools, and there's never been any
shortage of them.
Moron athon !!
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