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Dr. Bock,
Thank you for your explanations and time. As Christians we do indeed get our feathers ruffled too quickly. My little piece of humble input would indeed be very much along the same lines.
Assume that in 2000 years, if our Lord hasn't returned by then, one would find an upper-class tomb in California with the names Michael and Mary. And we knew of a middle-class couple with the same names that used to live in Dallas at roughly the same time. Would you then be able to say 'the tomb in California is theirs'. One would probably would not. This story is the same. Very common names for the time and region. Very large extrapolation and statistically one would have a better chance at winning the lottery.
Yours in Christ.