Post from 1GUNRUNNER -
Kind of arrogant, don't ya think?
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Arrogant of whom? Jesus or His church?
If Jesus, then don't worry, 'cause as I said, He didn't seem to think His birthplace worthy of being located or described in Scripture.
If His church, well, if there is any truth behind the tradition that St. Justin Martyr in the Second Century, AD, conveyed to us, then His church had made precious little fuss over His birthplace, either.
It was pagans (of an unknown source) who built a temple over the supposed site, as a means of keeping any Christians away from the place.
But just how accurate any of this might be is open to conjecture.
As I mentioned, I would imagine that neither Joseph nor Mary could have found the spot after a few years, but there were other witnesses, such as the shepherds of the nearby temple flocks, who would certainly have remembered the episode in which they were so incredibly caught up in or around 4 BC, and may have passed the memories on to their sons who took their place as shepherds of the temple flocks.
Eric The(BetterSafeThanSorry)Hun[>]:)]