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News: The Star of Bethlehem

Discussion in '2000-02 Archive' started by LadyEagle, Dec 23, 2002.

  1. TheOliveBranch

    TheOliveBranch New Member

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    I have read that it was Johann Kepler that had first suggested the conjection of planets in 1605.
     
  2. Helen

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    It was certainly known about before even Kepler. However, in our time, it was totally submerged to all kinds of various ideas and theories until, to the best of my knowledge, Barry's work made it public once again. It doesn't really matter if they credit him or not -- I was just a wife speaking there. What matters is that the truth is known. And even then, people are free to do what they like with it.
     
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    Following Barry's explanation of that the words Star and Cloud could mean the same thing, then it is more probable that there was never any star to begin with and this could be just a lighted Magic Cloud that was hanging above Jesus’ house the whole time. This theory is just as much a miracle as if a cloud lighted up only on the day the wise men arrived at the house.

    There could have been a giant cloud of light that was very high in the sky which the wise men could have seen from very far away; and as they traveled toward the cloud, it started to lower until it clearly marked the house of Jesus.

    This theory makes more sense than using Barry’s complex theory. His theory has some pretty big holes that mine just filled. For instance, what would make the wise men decide to "follow" a star to a physical location, knowing that they could never get to a location on earth without something further to indicate a position on earth... such as a magic lighted cloud, which at the time they didn't know could happen. See, it made no sense for them to "follow" a star. It would only make sense that they maybe "interpret" the movement of the stars to predict an event.

    Further why choose one common planet "Jupiter" over any other planet to follow? And why choose it at one particular time of the day over another, what made them say, Ok, this is the proper time to stop tracking and see what we have here?

    Barry has taken a set of events, and forced them to fit a situation on earth, (arm-chair quaterbacking) and still he needed to pull a magic cloud into the picture to make it work. Like I said, if we want to assume a magic cloud was the indicator (and why on the 15th month of Jesus' life, I don't know why) then we may as well just say it was only a lighted Magic Cloud that accounted for this Bible Story.
     
  4. C.S. Murphy

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    Sorry boys and girls but page three has been reached and this will close in the AM. I apologize for missing all the anti biblical action over Christmas, I suppose a thread titled Star of Bethlehem seemed innocent to me but I was wrong.
    Murph
     
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