# Resolved: Jesus did not exist

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [January 3, 2011, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-jesus-did-not-exist/566230 "2011-01-03T16:11:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2011, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-jesus-did-not-exist/566230/70 "2011-01-05T15:23:21Z")

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> [@ITR\_champion](#):
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> What **septimus** said. Please read my posts and pay attention to what I actually say.

I have read your posts. Neither of you has explained this particular contradiction. Was Jesus born during the reign of Herod or was he born ten years later during the census of Quirinius? Which it it? It can’t be both. Matthew and Luke cannot both be right. At least one of them is wrong. Which is it?

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