The Nativity is no fairy tale.

Matthew and Luke are the two Gospel writers who include stories about the birth of Jesus, and both are good historians. If you look through the rest of their Gospels you’ll find all kinds of details about people, places and events that they get exactly right historically.

 The Nativity is no fairy tale.


Here and more are few awkward details about the arrival of God’s Messiah that you might prefer to leave unmentioned. 

Jesus came for people who are dirt poor.
Any young woman who found herself pregnant 
outside marriage was liable to be stoned to death.
Joseph planned to quietly break off their engagement .

Some Christians play down the essentially Jewish character of the entire story.
 But even mainstream Christian and Jewish biblical experts have a problem in explaining the role played in the narrative by the so-called three "Wise Men" or "Kings" who, we are told, came from the east, following a star, to worship the infant Jesus in Bethlehem and were not Jews.

Matthew's account of the birth where he describes the distinguished visitors as "Magi" .
where we get the word ,Magic.
Zoroaster ,was the prophet of arguably the world's first monotheistic religion and is thought to have lived around 1000 BC.
They where economically sound,equality wise,treated women and men the same,environmentally wise around animal welfare, plus use of resources like land husbandry.
Under the enlightened rule of the Persian empire, support was given to a series of Jewish prophets who codified the varying beliefs of the Hebrews into the monotheistic theology of modern Judaism which was inherited by its eventual offspring - Christianity and Islam.

In this outpouring their is a mixture of religious practices,all enabling the Birth of Jesus to come about.
The wise people, and l expect it clearly was more then 3, and included women,arrived on the scene when Jesus was around 18 - 24 months old.

Which explains why Herod had children under two years of age killed,
when he found out about the birth of Jesus the` to be King`,(But not in a world king sense).

It was not a birth in a stable,but the child was placed in animal trough when new born.

Nowhere in the bible are we told to celebrate Jesus birthday,
so the scenes taking place around the country with money,excessive eating,wealth displayed and greed promoted are not connected with Bible nor birth of a messiah.