The Bible says that wise men came from the East to worship Jesus. It doesn't say that they were kings, it doesn't say that there were exactly three of them, and it certainly doesn't say that their names were Melchior, Caspar, and Balthazar. Where did all of that extrabiblical stuff come from?
>>18578317>The Bible saysThe bible is a hodgepodge collection of random fables transmitted orally.
>>18578323Ops, unlike our Rigveda, which is 100% real btw
>>18578317Early Christians were so full of the Holy Ghost that every random named character like Simon of Cyrene or Abiathar has at least a couple of fanfiction works from the first 5th centuries, and every unnamed character gets a name and a backstory in the Jesus Cinematic Universe.
>>18578435Those early Christians claimed to be filled with the Holy Spirit while desecrating statues, temples, and ancestral graves, cursing them to hell, and obsessing over Jewish lineages, sometimes even inventing fictional ones.
>>18578442Your history is defeat.
>>18578317“Extrabiblical stuff.”Like the song The Little Drummer Boy, it’s a song about a little boy playing drums and marching for baby Jesus to play his drum for him. People come up with ideas for creativity, but that doesn’t mean it’s biblical. In my beliefs, they represented coming from Asia. I can’t imagine king Herod being so jealous unless they were very wealthy and from really far. But God knows. Since three gifts were given, they are efficiently rounded down to just three wise men. Gold, frankincense, and myrrh.Some people choose to believe that they brought him chunks of wood that had smell. Or resin. But they likely brought him some distilled very concentrated essential oils that only kings or extreme wealthy people had. Since herbs are God’s miracles due to the garden of Eden being under the curse, this means Jesus Christ was born by the Holy Spirit itself but also he was given the Holy Spirit to know as he grew, and these gifts would have likely been used to keep them from getting sick, keeping them miraculously protected under divine protection. Having these divine miracles in his possession would even grant Jesus the power to perform miracles with them. Though he didn’t need these gifts to do it. So there is a layer to this that goes even beyond believing in essential oils as miracles. Believing on his name and his person that God made him to be, and his Word.>>18578323If that were so, then Rachel would have had better luck naming her children. But they were named like a normal woman acting like a woman who just wasn’t as good at naming them as Leah was. There are all sorts of truth to the Bible if you simply read it and look for it. Really basic proof that they were real people. If it was entirely random, it wouldn’t have had a linear direction to get to Jesus.
