<!– wp:tadv/classic-paragraph –> <p style="text-align: justify;">I have been considering the hypothesis that the star referred to in Matthew’s Gospel <a href="http://www.mandm.org.nz/2025/12/star-of-wonder-matthews-nativity-narrative-and-its-critics-part-one.html">was a comet recorded by Han-dynasty astronomers in 5 BC.</a> In a <a href="http://www.mandm.org.nz/2026/01/star-of-wonder-matthews-nativity-narrative-and-its-critics-part-two.html">previous post,</a> I examined an objection to this view that rested on two claims:</p> <ul style="text-align: justify;"> <li>First, that in the late […]
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Star of Wonder: Matthew’s Nativity Narrative and it’s Critics, Part three
February 5th, 2026 Comments Off on Star of Wonder: Matthew’s Nativity Narrative and it’s Critics, Part three
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Star of Wonder: Matthew’s Nativity Narrative and its Critics, part two
January 2nd, 2026 Comments Off on Star of Wonder: Matthew’s Nativity Narrative and its Critics, part two
<!– wp:paragraph –> <p></p> <!– /wp:paragraph –> <!– wp:separator –> <hr class="wp-block-separator"/> <!– /wp:separator –> <!– wp:tadv/classic-paragraph –> <p style="text-align: justify;">In a <a href="http://www.mandm.org.nz/2025/12/star-of-wonder-matthews-nativity-narrative-and-its-critics-part-one.html">previous post</a>, I addressed the claim that no star could exist that moves or behaves in the way described in Matthew’s Gospel. I argued that Matthew’s Gospel uses language found in Greco-Roman writings […]
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Star of Wonder: Matthew’s Nativity Narrative and its Critics, part one.
December 17th, 2025 Comments Off on Star of Wonder: Matthew’s Nativity Narrative and its Critics, part one.
Recently, I have been thinking about Matthew’s birth narrative. In particular, I want to discuss three claims that are sometimes made by critics of the narrative’s historicity. First, it is claimed that no star could exist that moves or behaves in the way described in Matthew’s Gospel. According to this objection, Matthew depicts a star […]
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A common objection to belief in the God of the Bible is that a good, kind, and loving deity would never command the wholesale slaughter of nations. In the tradition of his popular Is God a Moral Monster?, Paul Copan teams up with Matthew Flannagan to tackle some of the most confusing and uncomfortable passages of Scripture. Together they help the Christian and nonbeliever alike understand the biblical, theological, philosophical, and ethical implications of Old Testament warfare passages.
