Jesus Was Born While Quirinius Was Governor?

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The story of the birth of Christ as recorded in Luke chapter 2 starts like this in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered this was the first registration when

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Quirinius was governor of Syria and all went to be registered each to his own town. Now critics just love to come back to this verse because as everyone with Google who can look up someone else who did all the research for their skepticism knows

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Quirinius wasn't the governor of Syria until 6 AD King Herod the Great who in Matthew 2 tried to kill the baby

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Jesus died in 4 BC the two weren't even ruling at the same time Luke got his dates wrong

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BAM! shows over the Bible is flawed that means none of it actually happened now stop celebrating Christmas and have a happy winter solstice oh please the response is very simple look at it again in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus now verse 2 this was the first registration when

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Quirinius was governing Syria so we have a decree given before a census and Luke specifies exactly which census we're talking about this is not saying that Jesus was born at the time

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Quirinius was governor it's saying Jesus was born between the edict and the actual census Luke mentions the census again in Acts 5 perfectly aligned with other historical events he knew what he was writing about providing an orderly account so that we might know with certainty that Jesus Christ is the

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Savior of the world. The prophet Micah 700 years before the birth of Christ said that he would be born in Bethlehem and that's where Mary and Joseph went thanks to a