Existence of the Star of Bethlehem before Jesus' birth

[maendem]

Exporter:

Thanks for that info from a presentation. Please, can you elaborate on just how an observer in the Middle East could have been “guided” toward Bethehem?

Exporter: whence the sarcasm?
I’m not trying to prove this planetary alignment was the Star of Bethlehem. I just thought I would fill out some of the scientific details behind Steve’s point. A triple conjunction occurred in 6 or 7 A.D. That’s fascinating. Was it the Star of Bethlehem? Perhaps not.

 

[mary_tim]

this is a fascinating subject i think you have already thrashed it out very well but i too was thinking about this . scientists had said a number of times that if we would look out we would see the “so called star of bethlehem” that bit was a conjunction of starsor planets or whatever. like all the others i looked and was fascinated but then i started thinking ( a dangerous thing to do.) if i saw a star and theoretically walked after it i would in theory end up back where i started or i could go on walking around the world like the man on the mta (A song of the sixties) the star would stay where it was ahead of me it would not stop for me where it was when i first saw it. also this “star” stopped appearing to them when they got to jerusalem. thats why they had to ask herod. after they headed the right way again the “star” took them to the place where Jesus lay.maybe the sign in the sky that alerted them could have been the conjunction ye talked about but the star they followed had to be something else as ye have also said

 

[Mijoy2]

DominvsVobiscvm:

I mean, we read in Scripture that the star “went over the house where the child was.” Now, it is absolutely impossible to affirm that any given star in the sky is absolutely over a given location.

Darn! I could have sworn the big dipper was over my shed. But come to think of it, when I go over my neighbors house, it’s over his shed too.

 

[Psalm45_9]

Didn’t the rest of the nativity account say that the star led the magi in the form of an angel? The star could have been one of the heavenly hosts shining over Bethlehem.