That Jesus was a real person. Sorry it's just often people say the bible contradictions itself. I don't see it like that.
Angela Walker I'll go to my favorite. It is actually a chronological analysis of several stories.
1. Story of the Slaughter of Innocents - Supposedly, Herod the Great heard about the newborn Jesus and sent his army out to kill all the children in the land, assuming Jesus would be among them, but the family got a divine warning and left the area. A miracle that Jesus survived, although every other child was slaughtered. Some miracle, right. Anyway, it gives us a date to work with. Herod died in 4 BCE, so the birth of Jesus was before that. 2. Census story - When Mary was near due, Joseph and Mary had to travel to Jerusalem al Judea for the census. This was big, because prophecy said that the Messiah would be born in Judea, and this move for the census seemed to answer the prophecy. The NT mentions the name of the Governor who ordered the census - Quirinius - and this gives us another date. Quirinius was made Governor in 6AD, so the census, and the birth, must be after that. Analysis: How can a child born after 6 AD be pursued by a jealous king who died more than 10 years earlier? Chronologically speaking, both cannot be true, so one of them must be false. 3. Jesus ministry - NT says that Jesus was at least 30 when he began his ministry, and ministered @ 2 years before his death, making him at least 32 when he died. 4. Crucifixion - NT claims that the crucifixion was ordered by Governor Pontius Pilate. Pontius left office in 36 AD. Analysis of 2,3,&4: If Jesus was born after 6 AD (census) and died before 36 AD (Pontius left office), then he could not have been AT LEAST 32 when he died, and that is assuming that Quirinius ordered and completed the census on his first day as governor (impossible) and Pontius held the execution on his last day in office (highly unlikely). Add to that, biblical scholars, using New Testament references, determined that the crucifixion was April of 30 AD, making Jesus age at time of death to be less than 24 (more likely 22 or 23), not greater than 32, as the NT claims. One or all of those stories must be false, because it is chronologically impossible for them to all be true. The main reason that Christians don't spot these obvious flaws is that they don't examine these stories as a chronological whole. Trying to create a timeline of biblical stories is impossible, because so many of them are clearly conflicting, timewise, and therefore chronologically impossible when taken together. There is more than one account in the NT of Jesus last words as he died on the cross, and they aren't even remotely close. Only one account of the last words could be true, because last words are a one time deal. The rest must be false. I could go on, but you get the point, right?
What do you guys think about these historical inaccuracies?
Is there any want to debate this?
First off (hopefully you understand) the calendar goes like this:
BC -------------------->1BC 1AD----------------> (there's no year "0")
10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
February 4BC - Herod the Great dies.
Jesus is 2 years old when the Magi come into Jerusalem. They come before Herod dies. This puts the Magi coming some time in 5 BC
This means Jesus is born in 7 BC
In the "Deeds of Augustus" Caesar himself records 3 empire wide censuses.
1st 28 BC
2nd 8 BC
3rd 14 AD
There was an inscription found in Antioch which states that
Quirinius was governor in Syria twice. One in 7 BC and one in 6 AD
The Jury Is In: Luke and Quirinius
So Jesus was born in 7 BC. Most likely during the feast of Tabernacles (which would have been in the fall). This would have been the commencement of 7 BC of the sacred calendar. The Jewish new year started in the fall. The secular new year started in the spring.
There are only 2 possibilities for the year of His death. (30 AD and 33AD) In both of these years; Passover fell on a Thursday to a Friday.
John the Baptist appears in the wilderness in the commencement of "the 15th year of Tiberius Caesar." That would have been 30 AD, or 29 AD depending on if one was using the sacred or secular calendar.
So your only other option is Jesus died in 33 AD This would have made Him 6 months shy of turning 40.
Now the Scripture? Jesus is "about of the 30 years old". The phrase actually means "of (about) the middle" of 30 (or of (about) the middle of 30's). Which 7 BC to 30 (or 29) AD; which is 36 years. This means Jesus would have just turned 36 shortly after John appeared in the wilderness. Which would have been roughly July of 29 AD.
Now, the last thing Jesus said?
The last intelligible thing He said was "I thirst". "Into Your hands I commend my spirit." and "It is finished." are "interpretations / explanations" provided to the reader by the writer, because by that point; Jesus was beyond the point of those hearing Him actually being able to understand what He was saying.
The Greek conveys that He sounded like a screeching crow; so the order of the words in either gospel don't make it clear which phrase was actually the last one. We are provided with an account of what Jesus was trying to say; so in that sense we are left with an ambiguous answer. It makes the most sense to me that "it is finished" would be last.