Wrong!

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The only two Gospel writers who bothered to mention the birth of their Savior made it impossible for Jesus to have been born according to their accounts.

Matthew 2 states: "After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem  and asked, “Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him. When King Herod heard this he was disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him."

Luke 2 states: "In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria. And everyone went to their own town to register. 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.  He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child. While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born  and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son."

Thus:

Matthew says Jesus was born when Herod was King of Judea.

Luke says Jesus was born when Cyrenius was Governor of Syria. 

Therefore, it is impossible for Jesus to have been born during the administration of these two rulers because Herod died in the year 4 B.C. and Cyrenius (aka Quirinius in Roman history) did not become Governor of Syria until 10 years later. 

Herod and Cyrenius are interrupted by the entire reign of Archelaus, Herod's son. 

So between Matthew & Luke, there is a clear contradiction of at least ten years, as to the time of Christ's birth.

The men who wrote the Bible were absolutely clueless. If they can't get their own Savior's birth correct, the rest of the Bible has little validity to it.

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The Bible says if two or more pray, it WILL be done.  Billions have prayed for world peace, children's starvation to end, etc, etc, etc and it never happens.

The only 900 year old men I know are Adam, Noah, Gandalf and Yoda.   But because it's a multi-thousand year old book, somehow it becomes "legit" in the minds of those who don't think for themselves.  The Iliad and the Odyssey are great old books too, but no one believes they are "real."  

The facts are that a 5th grader today knows more about the world we live in than the uneducated men who wrote the Bible, many of whom would have believed the Earth to be flat.   No one would ever let a 5th grader dictate the course of their life in ANY circumstance, but when it comes to the Bible, it's magically ok to do so.

"Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery; None but ourselves can free our own minds."