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Sunday, December 4, 2016

Everything you thought you knew about the first Christmas is wrong

As I serve as the official ghost of Christmas past for the Jesus Blog, I should remind you that I've pointed our readers before to Stephen Carlson's revisionist history of the iconic stable scene in Luke's Gospel.

Brice Jones does an admirable job as the ghost of Christmas present here:

http://www.bricecjones.com/blog/stephen-carlson-on-the-inn-in-lukes-infancy-account5410574 

We are now accepting applications for the ghost of Christmas future. Long-haired freaky people need not apply.

-anthony

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