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>I hope you don't seriously believe you noticed something obscure that all Christians for two millennia were just ignoring or covering up
I'm not asking for specific harmonizations (I know them already), I'm asking about probable vs possible harmonizations.
>One of the first things that any learned reader of Scripture will tell you is that the letter of the text is not the meaning
This is true for any text, not just Scripture.
>He's no reading it with the mindset of merely gathering information from a chronicle and the Gospels were never intended to serve that purpose, they're works of theology first and foremost
The author of Luke-Acts seems to set a very "historical" tone:
"Many have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us, just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses and servants of the word. With this in mind, since I myself have carefully investigated everything from the beginning, I too decided to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus, so that you may know the certainty of the things you have been taught."

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