The birth of Jesus was a divine intervention, the moment God Himself stepped into our world as a baby. Now this, in itself, is a gift beyond measure, a gift of love, grace, a gift of salvation ...

For example, the Star of Bethlehem couldn’t have been ... alignment of Jupiter and Saturn that happened at the time of Jesus’ birth. And Johannes Kepler himself touched on the idea in the ...

Based on the account of the Star of Bethlehem some scholars have linked the date to astronomical events. Jesus' birth might be dated to Spring 5 BC to align with the arrival of a comet.

Many of the prophecies, like those in Isaiah, were written centuries before the birth of Jesus. Cumulatively, they predict the conditions of His birth, meek and lowly; the location of His birth ...

Another mystical event Matthew records, sometime later, is that three wise men were led by a star and traveled a great distance to worship the new Christ child. The birth of Jesus was no ordinary ...

"The biblical story of the star is intended to convey theological rather than historical or astronomical truths," Vanden Eykel argued. He added the exact date of Jesus' birth is uncertain ...

Another theory, based on astronomy, places Jesus's birth in either the fall of 7 B.C. or the summer of 2 B.C. According to livescience.com, this theory suggests that "the Star of Bethlehem may ...

In Christian tradition, the "Star of Bethlehem" guided wise men to the site of Jesus' birth in Bethlehem more than two millennia ago. Now, viral social media posts are claiming stargazers can see ...

Rev. J. Patrick Street is the lead pastor of Redeemer Church. He can be reached at [email protected] This article originally appeared on Marion Star: The significance of Jesus’ birth ...

Could the Star of Bethlehem have been caused by a ... The three wise men, or Magi, arrived after Jesus’ birth carrying gold, frankincense and myrrh, as captured in this Byzantine mosaic ...