What should we make of the Star of Bethlehem next Jimmy Aiken?

Hello and welcome again to Cathay Gansw's live.

I am Cy Kelle, your host, and today we discuss the star, the star of Bethlehem.

What do we know about it?

What do we believe about it?

What do we obligated to believe?

And what might we possibly discover about that star.

Our guest is Jimmy Aiken, senior apologist here at Catholic Answers, and the author of a wonderful new book.

The Bible is a Catholic book. Welcome, Jimmy Aiken.

Howdy, how's it going?

Very, very well.

So we're all familiar with the Bible containing the angels, the shepherds, the star of Bethlehem, the little drummer boy. the bass I think. Oh okay all right my bad all right so but the star is in there so where do we

find the star in the Bible it's in Matthew's Gospels in Matthew's infancy

narratives which is chapters one and two of the gospel of Matthew and in particular it's in chapter two.

That's where we read about the Star of Bethlehem.

So when does the Star appear in the story? well it appears to the magi before we actually learn about it in at the beginning of Matthew to the magi I come from the east to Jerusalem seeking the newborn king of the Jews and they say we saw

his star when it arose in the East.

So it arose before they came and since it's interpreted by them to be a birth omen

something that signals the birth of the newborn king it presumably appeared

either at or approximately at the time

that Jesus was born. Oh okay so their travels actually start about the time Jesus

is born. Right and and they're coming from a distant country which means despite what you may have Jesus is

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