[P-Marlowe]

Wise Men Still Seek Him.

[LiteKeeper]

SPOTREP

[P-Marlowe]

Merry Christsmas Ping!

[Cindy]

THE CHRISTMAS LINKS PAGE
http://www.truthusa.com/CHRISTmas.html

[Robert Drobot]

This story was presented on a local PBS station yesterday. I enjoyed it.

[Ff--150]

ROTFLM*O!!!! 4CJ ;o>> YOU and I know what that Star was! I saw mine in 1975 ;)

Merry Christmas and Joyous and Prosperous New Year to the 4CJ family and relatives from tejas!

[xzins]

Good post; good info.

The Parthians were not a 1 to 1 with the old Persian Empire.

Had you ever read anywhere else that Zoroaster was a pupil of Daniel himself? I didn't know that.

[Corin Stormhands]

Beautiful Star Of Bethlehem

Oh Beautiful Star of Bethlehem
Shining afar through shadows dim
Giving the light for those who long have gone
Guiding the wise men on their way
Unto the place where Jesus lay
Oh Beautiful Star of Bethlehem shine on

Oh Beautiful Star of Bethlehem
Shine upon us until the glory dawns.
Give us a light to guide the way
Unto the land of perfect day.
Oh Beautiful Star of Bethlehem, shine on

Oh Beautiful Star the hope of light
Guiding the pilgrims through the night
Over the mountains till the break of dawn
Into the light of perfect day
It will give out a lovely ray
Oh Beautiful Star of Bethlehem shine on

Oh Beautiful Star the hope of rest
For the redeemed the good and blessed
Yonder in glory when the crown is won
Jesus is now the star divine
Brighter and brighter he will shine
Oh Beautiful Star of Bethlehem shine on

[opus86]

Read later.

[topcat54]

Revelation 12 tells of the birth of Messiah when the constellation Virgo (the woman in the heavens) was clothed with the sun and had the moon at her feet.

It's comments like this that makes the rest of the article suspect.

[Salvation]

What was the ‘Star’?

In an attempt to determine what the “star" might have been, astronomers have studied celestial phenomena that could have taken place at about the time of Jesus’ birth.

1. A supernova or “new star”: When a star explodes into birth, it gives out a great deal of light lasting weeks or months, sometimes even visible in the daytime. About a dozen are discovered each year, but they are rarely visible to the naked eye.

2. A comet: Comets appear a few times each century, Halley’s Comet has appeared every 77 years since 240 B. C. Its appearance closest to the date of Christ’s birth would have been in 12 or 11 B. C.

3. A planetary conjunction: There is a rare conjunction of three planets which according to the 17th century astronomer Johannes Kepler, occurs every 805 years when the orbits of Mars, Saturn and Jupiter bring them fairly close to one another. Kepler saw this happen in October on 16-5, and calculated that it would also have happened in 7 or 6 B. C.