Was Christ Born at Bethlehem?

Submitted by saltysteve on Sat, 05/30/2009 - 17:47

by Sir William Ramsay (abridged);

Extract: If we claim--as I have elsewhere in the most emphatic terms claimed--a high rank for Luke as regards trustworthiness, we must look fairly and squarely at the serious errors that are charged against him. If the case is proved against him in any of these, we must fairly admit the inevitable inference. If, on the other hand, we hold that the case is not proved, it is quite justifiable and reasonable, in a period of history so obscure as the first century, to plead, as many have done, that while we cannot in the present dearth of information solve the difficulty completely, we are obliged, in accordance with our perception of the high quality of the author’s work as a whole, to accept his statement in certain cases where he is entirely uncorroborated.

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