Difficulties

1:6 - How can Zacharias and Elizabeth be righteous, if none are righteous? 1:28 - Does this passage support the Roman Catholic view of the sinlessness of Mary? 1:42 - Was Mary sinless? 1:80 - Was John the Baptist an Essene? 2:2 - Is this passage about Quirinius a historical contradiction? 2:3 - Why would Mary have to travel to Joseph’s place of birth? 2:5 - When did Joseph take Mary as his wife? (Mt. 1:24) 2:34-35 - Does this passage support the Roman Catholic doctrine of the co-redemptrix nature of Mary? 2:40 c.f. 2:52 - How could Jesus increase in wisdom, if he was God? 2:42 - Why don’t the gospels give us many details about Jesus’ childhood and young adult years? 2:50 - How could they not understand this statement, if they knew Jesus was the Messiah? 3:21-22 - Why was Jesus baptized? 4:2 - Could Jesus survive 40 days without eating? 4:3-12 - Why do Luke and Matthew place Satan’s conversation out of order? 6:40 - Can we be above our teachers or not? 7:45 - Was this an erotic display? 8:45 - Who touched me? 9:27 - Did Jesus think he would return soon? 10:25-28 - Can we earn salvation through the Law or not? 12:10 - Blaspheming the Holy Spirit? 14:26 - Do we have to hate our parents? 14:27-28 - How does this passage square with justification by grace apart from works? 14:33 - Do we have to give up everything? 16:8-9 - Why does Jesus praise the unrighteous steward? 17:20-21 - Doesn’t Jesus teach that the kingdom was “spiritually” fulfilled in our hearts? 18:19 - Is Jesus not God? 19:45 - When did Jesus cleanse the Temple? 21:20-24 - Did Jesus predict the Fall of Jerusalem, or does this date Luke’s gospel after AD 70? 23:46 - What were Jesus’ last words on the Cross?