accurate. >> the point is, if jesus is who he claimed to be, the son of god, and if he came to prove he was the son of god, and to die for us, then these miracles become very believable. >> the nativity stories are parables. they give you the story of the child. >> motives were not to document history but to make them meaningful in a word of competing religions. >> matthew has jesus give the sermon on the mount it is models on moses as he is born so as moses was almost killed by the pharoah jesus will be almost killed by the evil king. the number one message from roman theology was that the emperor was define and that the