Path: ...!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: The Last Doctor Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho Subject: Re: Review of Joy to the World [Link] Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2024 10:49:00 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 38 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2024 11:49:00 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="8c813d0a2fd99d5c52c1a866d7095672"; logging-data="2324207"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX194WKp9vuy1fCt9uR5Ux9m/" User-Agent: PhoNews/3.13.3 (Android/14) Cancel-Lock: sha1:h/bA24PnKm8Z2daAV8CVzuSgnd4= In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2649 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!) >> >>Take it away Professor McGrath... >> >>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/religionprof/2024/12/doctor-who-joy-to-the-world.html > >There's an interesting point on chronology here which works in the > Whoniverse but sadly for Dave, not in the real world. > > >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 ... -- There’s no point in being grown up if you can’t act a little childish sometimes.