THE STAR.
In my bible
studying days I was often perplexed by the anomalies that existed in different versions of the New Testaments on the
life of Christ and therefore I got down to tagging the four gospels for my personal use only as 1. Blundering Mathew, 2.
Fairy tale Luke 3.Straight Mark and 4.Honest John.
The Internet
had not arrived then so it became increasingly difficult for me to get to the
source of the written word. Many an hour I spent breaking my head over which
was right and which was wrong version.
Let’s look at
something that puzzled me then.
Mathew:
Chapter 2
Now after
Yeshua was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, “magi
from the east arrived in Jerusalem saying, “Where is he who has been born King
of the Jews? For we saw his star in the east, and have come to
worship him…..
History
cannot find such a fact to substantiate. What kind of a star was it if there
was one such and a travelling star at that!
Mathew 2: 9 And having heard the king they went their way
: and lo the star they had seen in the east, went on before them, until it came
and stood where the Child was.
So it best
be accepted as a “fable” and not the truth.
From my
notes given me then by T.H.S.
Do not yet
try to resurrect the Gospel. Rather add to it and the pieces will come to life or
oblivion, the truth thereafter shall endure while the in accuracies shall
wither away. (Tope 1990.)
In those
days I would worry THS Saying why so many books and not just one to study and make
life easier for us. The answer was: “Go by ‘honest John’ which I can dare say I
might have written in parts through disciple St. John (and the evangelists).
El Shaddai 19th
June 2016.
SRT from
anecdotes of my life with THS.
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