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📜 The Roman Census of Luke: The Tax Roll That Confirms the Christmas Story

“In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered…”
Those words in Luke 2:1 have shaped the Christmas story for two thousand years—and yet they’re often dismissed as historically impossible.

In this episode of Faith & Facts, we take you deep into the Roman administrative world to confront one of the most common skeptical attacks on the Bible: Was Luke wrong about the census? Was Quirinius even governing Syria when Jesus was born? And would Rome really force people to return to their ancestral homes?

Using Roman inscriptions, Egyptian papyri, and first-century administrative records, this video reveals why Luke’s account is not fiction—but astonishingly precise history.

You’ll discover:

Why skeptics claim Luke made a chronological error in the Nativity account

The Roman papyrus from Egypt (AD 104) that proves citizens were required to return to ancestral homes for registration

The Lapis Venetus / Tivoli Inscription that confirms Quirinius held authority in Syria twice

How Roman censuses worked in multi-phase enrollments, not single events

Why Luke’s phrase “the first registration” is actually a historian’s clarification—not a mistake

How archaeology continues to confirm details that critics once said were impossible

Far from undermining the Christmas story, the evidence shows that Luke was a first-rate historian, accurately recording complex Roman taxation practices decades before modern archaeology could confirm them.

🎄 The journey of Joseph and Mary to Bethlehem wasn’t invented to fulfill prophecy—it happened because of a real Roman census, ordered by Caesar Augustus, administered through Syria, and executed exactly as Luke described.

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