Faith of our Fathers ping
Blessings to all today, the Feast of the Epiphany.
Feliz Día de Reyes to all!
Pelican State ping
Epiphany/Twelfth-Night greetings to all.
A few days ago there was a thread dealing with their origin... might be interesting.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2158695/posts
And the harm in believing is...?
All these pseudo-intellectuals who have nothing better to do than to chip away at Christianity, morality and values are quite tiresome and may I say, ignorant.
What they “know” would fit in a teacup and leave enough room for an elephant. What they “feel” fits nowhere.
“If music be the food of love, play on”
—Orsino, Act I, scene i, 12th Night - W. Shakespeare
Not the William “The Bard of Staten Island” Shakespeare but the other one. :~)
BUMP FOR LATER
Seems to me that much of this article doesn’t pass the sniff test.
The Kings River in California (from which Kings County gets its name) was originally named Rio de los Santos Reyes (River of the Three Kings) by the Spaniards, in honor of the Magi, in 1806.
“Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your dawn”—Isaiah 60:3
It was later that iconographers and preachers decided to make these Wise Men the representatives of the Gentile Nations, and still later that they often came to be portrayed as white, black, and yellow, representing the European, African, and Asian continents, which, of course, come together at the unique geographic nexus of Israel.
It's fascinating,though, isn't it?
Matthew's Wise Men or "Magi", the only word of Persian origin in the original Greek Bible, were evidently Zoroastrian priests, [Zoroastrianism] being the official religion of Persia.
Paradise, another Sanskrit/Persian word, does appear in the Textus Receptus Strong and Thayer both say so. (Strong's 3857) (Lk. 23:43, 2 Cor. 12:14, and Rev. 2:7)
It also shows up in the Masoretic text as a foreign word, as Brown, Driver and Briggs as well as Strong show. (Strong's 6568)(Neh. 2:8, Eccl. 2:5)