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#406 What Was the Star of Bethlehem? - Jimmy Akin

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Are You Following the Star Around?

Gospel says they followed the star around, but evidence shows that's not what happened. They went instead to jerusalem and asked herod, where is the new born king? I have a thought about that. Yei could point this also causes complications. We should stick with the basic meaning of the term star as it was used at the time. And so we can think aboutel what kinds of celestial phenomena would people have used to predict the birth of a new king. But the constellations are not good candidates for what the magi would have seen,. Why you can't eliminate some other things, like meteors or meteorites from your view - because those aren't part of

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