(July 19, 2018 at 5:20 pm)Chad32 Wrote: Ok, then I don't know why the nativities in my town show the baby Jesus, as still being swaddled up in a cloth, and lying in a manger, instead of running around playing with the animals.
Because people always conflate the Gospel accounts. Most nativity scenes I've ever seen mash up Matthew and Luke, as apparently both somehow being true. That's how you end up with shepherds, livestock, and the Magi all in the same display.
