2007-12-20 13:32:16 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The star and three (non-Jewish) Magi visiting the baby Jesus was one of the first signs that Christianity would reach out to the entire world, be universal or catholic.
With love in Christ.
2007-12-27 07:23:55 · answer #1 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Must have been to lead the Wise Men to Bethlehem, 'cause Herod didn't kill the Prince of Peace.
2007-12-20 13:39:50 · answer #2 · answered by Bobby Jim 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An astronomical journey - the visual attraction of the action picture star, in all probability could be too extensive and imprecise to lead everyone from some distance away to a particular guy or woman in a populated section. travelers could anticipate that the community ruler, Herod, could be attentive to greater precisely what grow to be happening, and the place the toddler king ought to be found. Herod instructed the smart men the place decrease than the action picture star to seem for the only they have been searching for. i'm Roman Catholic. Merry Christmas and Peace to all.
2016-11-04 04:30:24 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The wise men didnt ever go to Bethlehem. Jesus was about 2 years old and somewhere else at the time of the wise mens arrival. The sheppards got to see Jesus in the manger not the wise men as pop culture teaches. Just as its a popular notion that 2 of each animal was on Noah's ark when there as many as 14 each.
Genesis 7
1 The LORD then said to Noah, "Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation. 2 Take with you seven [a] of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate,
Clean animals by sevens, unclean by twos.
2007-12-20 13:42:06 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
God didn't place that star in the sky as King Herod's objective was to kill baby Jesus.
Matthew chapter 2
7 Then Herod secretly summoned the astrologers and carefully ascertained from them the time of the star’s appearing; 8 and, when sending them to Beth´le·hem, he said: “Go make a careful search for the young child, and when YOU have found it report back to me, that I too may go and do it obeisance.” 9 When they had heard the king, they went their way; and, look! the star they had seen [when they were] in the east went ahead of them, until it came to a stop above where the young child was.
It says the star moved from where it was before! How convenient for Herod!
2007-12-20 14:21:59 · answer #5 · answered by aseptic technique 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everyone!
It's amazing how long that star stayed in that sky because the Wise men did not go to the manger, They didn't show up for 1-2 years later, That is why Herod told to kill all males 3 and under!
go read it!
Matthew 2:11 On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold and of incense and of myrrh.
12And having been warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, they returned to their country by another route.
2007-12-20 13:46:03 · answer #6 · answered by Numb 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The “astrologers from eastern parts,” hence from the neighborhood of Babylon, whose visit to King Herod after the birth of Jesus resulted in the slaughter of all the male infants in Bethlehem, were obviously not servants or worshipers of the true God. As to the “star” (Gr., a·ster′) seen by them, many suggestions have been given as to its having been a comet, a meteor, a supernova, or, more popularly, a conjunction of planets. None of such bodies could logically have ‘come to a stop above where the young child was,’ thereby identifying the one house in the village of Bethlehem where the child was found. It is also notable that only these pagan astrologers “saw” the star. Their condemned practice of astrology and the adverse results of their visit, placing in danger the life of the future Messiah, certainly allow for, and even make advisable, the consideration of their having been directed by a source adverse to God’s purposes as relating to the promised Messiah. It is certainly reasonable to ask if the one who “keeps transforming himself into an angel of light,” whose operation is “with every powerful work and lying signs and portents,” who was able to make a serpent appear to speak, and who was referred to by Jesus as “a manslayer when he began,” could not also cause astrologers to ‘see’ a starlike object that guided them first, not to Bethlehem, but to Jerusalem, where resided a mortal enemy of the promised Messiah.
2007-12-20 13:44:07 · answer #7 · answered by conundrum 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
to lead them to bethlehem to meet the promised savior!
king herod didnt kill jesus, did he?!
2007-12-20 13:36:06 · answer #8 · answered by racecar 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The story of the Wise Men never happened. It was a story placed in the Bible to tell us that Christ came for everyone and not for just the Jews.
2007-12-20 13:37:36 · answer #9 · answered by Mary W 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Well the wise men made it to Bethlehem - and Jesus wasn't killed - so you tell me....
2007-12-20 13:36:04 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋