#406 What Was the Star of Bethlehem? - Jimmy Akin

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🗓️ 29 December 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Was it a comet? Was it a shooting star? Do we have any clues as to the nature of the Star of Bethlehem? Jimmy Akin brings some fascinating speculations about what the star might have been. Cy Kellett: Is there any way to know what the Star of Bethlehem was? Jimmy Akin gives it a try next. Cy Kellett: Hello and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Answers podcast for living, understanding, and defending your Catholic faith. This time, a little bit of understanding. What exactly is the Star of Bethlehem? There’s been all kinds of interesting speculation, and you know what? You know who loves a …

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0:00.0	Is there any way to know what the star of Bethlehem was?
0:02.7	Jimmy Acan gives it a try.
0:04.1	Next.
0:09.4	Hello, and welcome to Focus the Calfcats
0:11.2	whose podcast for living understanding
0:12.8	and defending your Catholic faith this time,
0:15.4	a little bit of understanding.
0:16.4	What exactly is the star of Bethlehem?
0:19.4	There's been all kinds of interesting speculation,
0:21.7	and you know what, you know who loves a good mystery?
0:23.9	Jimmy Acan, as my right, he's got his own mysterious world.
0:26.8	So we posed him this question.
0:28.7	What is the star of?
0:29.9	Bethlehem, can you solve that mystery for us?
0:32.2	Here's what Jimmy had to say.
0:40.2	Hello, and Merry Christmas, Jimmy Acan.
0:42.0	Merry Christmas, Cyril Kelly.
0:43.8	Oh, very formal.
0:44.9	Cyril.
0:45.8	Well, it's Christmas.
0:46.6	Yeah, that's right.
0:47.8	And we're gonna talk about one of the features
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