Re: Review of Joy to the World [Link]

On 31/12/2024 10:40, The Last Doctor wrote:

On 31/12/2024 09:10, Blueshirt wrote:

Something different from Blueshirt Mansions this morning, a "Joy
to the World" review from a semi-religious point of view... from
a highly educated Christian blogger who likes Doctor Who. (Dave
might even find it informative!)
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Take it away Professor McGrath...
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https://www.patheos.com/blogs/religionprof/2024/12/doctor-who-joy-to-the-world.html

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There's an interesting point on chronology here which works in the
Whoniverse but sadly for Dave, not in the real world.
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The episode shows the Star as in year "0001". Historical cues in the Bible
have the birth of Jesus in Matthew as no later than 4BC, but in Luke as no
earlier

... grr sorry ...
No earlier than 6AD (a ten year difference, one of the bigger contradictions
 in the Bible that prove it is not inerrant in any translation or edition as
 it's full of internal contradictions and issues like this).
But in the Whoniverse, history is always being rewritten and traces of what
 has never been get left behind in the next iteration.
So what if - Jesus was born in 1 or 2 BC in the current ("mavity") timeline
 - thus the wise men turning up in 0001 (AD). But the book of Matthew comes
 from the universe where Jesus was born in 4BC and the Doctor worked with
 UNIT in the 70s ... but the book of Luke comes from a universe where Jesus
 was born in 6AD and the Doctor worked with UNIT in the 80s ... which of
 course were the same events ...
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There’s no point in being grown up if you can’t act a little childish
 sometimes.