"The Wise Men from the East brought gifts to the Newborn King. Yet, the babe in the manger offered a gift to the world that marvelously complemented their generosity: the gift of Truth.
The Magi, like the philosophers who were seekers of wisdom, were also seekers.
“Here is the important point,” writes G. K. Chesterton in The Everlasting Man, “that the Magi, who stand for mysticism and philosophy, are truly conceived as seeking something new and even finding something unexpected. ... The discovery is, in this case, truly a scientific discovery.”
The Christmas story is not merely a beautiful and endearing story. It is a historical event and the “scientific discovery” of a truth that discredited all competing mythologies.
It gave religion a new birth, one that was wed to truth. It was also significant that it was born in a cave, a place where truth is not easy to find." The Magi and Their Scientific Discovery
This article was really interesting and it put Christianity into perspective of what Jesus came for to bring Truth and everlasting life for all humanity. It is a gift that many people have been unable to accept for over two-thousand years, yet the Truth still prevails as Christmas shows us each year. God humbled himself by coming to earth born a man in the lowliest of places in a stable amongst the animals as a sign of his love for us. This is the gift that we all should humbly receive into our hearts this Christmas to look on that manger scene with humility and joy for the hope of a new beginning to share with friends and families. To all a very Merry Christmas!
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