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Was the star of Bethlehem a real astronomical event?
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RE: Was the star of Bethlehem a real astronomical event?
Quote:So this guy is able to show that Jupiter retrogaded in Dec 2BC


Um, even if this were true all it would do is further complicate the already existing contradiction between Luke and Matthew about your alleged godboy's birth. Matthew places it while Herod the Great was still alive, IOW before 4 BC. Luke places it when Publius Sulpicius Quirinius was named governor of Syria in 6 AD. There is no way to reconcile this contradiction and now this bozo wants to introduce a 3d choice which matches none of the texts which xtian nuts swear are both true!

By the way, there is a secondary problem with this bullshit - which only appears in "Matthew."


Matt 2:
Quote:7 Then Herod called the Magi secretly and found out from them the exact time the star had appeared. 8 He sent them to Bethlehem and said, “Go and search carefully for the child. As soon as you find him, report to me, so that I too may go and worship him.”

9 After they had heard the king, they went on their way, and the star they had seen when it rose went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was. 10

Really? Let's see your xtian astronomer explain how a star could pull off a trick like that!
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RE: Was the star of Bethlehem a real astronomical event? - by Minimalist - October 19, 2011 at 6:55 pm
Analysis of the Beth Star - by Cyberman - October 22, 2011 at 5:54 pm

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