Some more background on the Magi and the actual birth date of Christ:
"The Star of Bethlehem," IMPRIMIS, Hillsdale College (Dec 1996):
http://www.hillsdale.edu/imprimis/1996/Dec96Imprimis.pdf. A six page article that summarizes important facts supporting Christ's birth date of September 11, 3 B.C. Note that this date was also the Jewish New Year (Rosh Hashanah) and commonly considered to be the first day of Creation in Genesis ("birthday of the world").
"The Star that Astonished the World," Ernest Martin, Ph.D.
http://askelm.com/star/star000.htm and
http://askelm.com/books/book003.htm. This book is THE definitive work on what the Star of Bethlehem really was (Jupiter). It describes the numerous conjunctions and massing of planets that announced Christ's birth and pinpoints the exact day and time from astronomical, historical, and Biblical records. This evidence convinced the Magi astronomers (wise men) from Persia (Iran) to journey over 1000 miles to Bethlehem and pay honor to the 15-month old Christ child in December, 2 B.C. The Shockwave video (
http://askelm.com/video/v020301.htm) produced by MSNBC is particularly good as it demonstrates the various conjunctions and retrograde planetary motions in a very clear fashion.
September 11th news,
http://www.september11news.com/Sept11History.htm. Islamic jihadists killed nearly 3,000 of our fellow Americans on Sept. 11, 2001. The author of this site includes Christ's birth in his historical timeline of Sept 11 events. It is not surprising that the evil one of this world would besmirch the birth date of his eventual conqueror.
the msnbc link isn't working.
Ping to the ultimate anniversary theory.
YOUR POST IS NUMBER 23!!!
Do you really think we believe this is a coincidence?
2+3=5
Jesus, having 5 letters, of which 2 are vowels and 3 consonents
2,3,5 are the first three prime numbers; they are also the 3rd,4th,and 5th numbers of the fibonnacci sequence, which is found quite frequently in nature
23 is the first prime number in which both digits are prime numbers and add up to another prime number.
The Earth's axis is currently tilted 23.5 degrees to the celestial equator
All humans recieved 23 chromosomes from his/her mother, and 23 chromosomes from his/her father
Within the DNA double helix, there are unexplained bonding irregularities every 23rd angstrom.
All humans have 23 vertebrae; also 23 joints in human arm
Blood circulates through the body in 23 seconds
there were 23 letters in the Latin alphabet... (22 in hebrew, 24 in greek) in English, W is the 23 letter... it is the only letter to be pronounced polysyllabically and has two points down, three up, and also it is double(2)U and has 3 syllables
The first two landings on the moon were Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 - 11 + 12= 23
The 22 trumps of the Tarot actually create a cycle of 23
In the final assault on the Death Star, Luke Skywalker is in Red 5. Red 2 and Red 3 start the bomb runs at 23 degrees. "Stay on target!"