NASA and the missing day

[Godscreated]

You should watch, you'll have to purchase it, the video "The Star of Bethlehem," and see how God looked down through the coming history and worked a wonder with what He created to give signs about a birth and a death, signs using the natural movement of the stars and planets. If you do not believe there is something in it to consider I'll buy the video from you.

GC

I appreciate the offer, GC, but if the star was proven to be real, an obscure video would not be the only place I could find that out. There are plenty of possible candidates: a comet, Uranus, a nova, or whatever. The problem is that none of them are so rare that anyone should be amazed that an unusual astronomical event could have happened between 10 and 1 BCE. You'll find such things in most given ten year periods.

Now if whatever it was actually hovered over Bethlehem, sort of 'pointing it out' THAT would be really weird and noteworthy. Yet even in the Gospels, it's only mentioned by Matthew.

In addition, Jesus is hardly the only famous person whose birth was supposedly accompanied by astronomical wonders. It's a pretty common trope, around long before the Bethlehem story, and God wasn't being very original if he jumped on that bandwagon.

In order to believe this story is literally true, you have to believe it before subjecting it to critical scrutiny. That's backwards. You won't get there through science, which will only get you as far as 'yep, stuff was happening in the sky back then, just like always'.

This is science and Bible meeting each other, the person that discovered this put criteria on the Bible, if the Bible didn't meet the criteria then he would have to reconsider what the Bible was actually saying, like I said I will pay for it after you watch it, what I would like to know, are you turning down science because a Christian learned to use it for the purpose of trying to prove an astronomical event in scripture. There was no as you all say magic used, it was however perfectly timed even to the death of Christ.

GC

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GC, would it be completely beside the point to mention that archaeology has not revealed any good evidence either for the so-called Exodus or for the narrative of events as described in Joshua? You know, as in you are arguing for the historicity of a ridiculous myth in a book of fiction compiled much later than the alleged events for propaganda purposes?

Yeah, I didn't think so. Carry on with your fantasies.

Plenty has been excavated about the Joshua invasion of Canaan. Most secular archaeologist presume Joshua never existed and so the evidence is past over or put into a different category.

GC