Posted June 29, 200817 yr comment_10169 http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20080627/sc_...ZGnBFrvBzIE1vAI Over the next week or so you can see Mars and Saturn together. random note: if it were jupiter and saturn merging, that was the star of Bethlehem.
July 1, 200817 yr Author comment_10194 Even with my bad vision I just went out with binoculars and I saw them on my own. I even thought the bottom 2 were supposed to be reversed in height so I came in and looked it up and indeed it was supposed to look exactly how the three looked that I saw. Saturn the far top left one and then the bottom two are regalus on the bottom left and Mars on the bottom right.
August 1, 200817 yr comment_10420 From what I've read the star of Bethlehem was actually Sirius. On the night of the 24th the three visible stars that constitute Orion's belt point directly to Sirius and the line that the three stars of the constellation and Sirius make create a line to the location on the horizon where the Sun will rise the next morning. This morning is the first dawn of the winter solstice, the first morning that the sun starts to once again rise in the sky (making days longer). The allegory is usually made that the Son (Jesus Christ) and the Sun were the same. Download a program called Stellarium and I can tell you how to look for yourself. It's pretty interesting stuff!
August 2, 200817 yr Author comment_10422 Thanks, I'll check it out. As far as what the star was, I was just judging by what some scholar said on the radio. But it's difficult to know whether things said on the radio are widely accepted fact or just theory. I'm not sure what information he had to back it up. I know his name is Glen Kimball.
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