He asks: “Gospel scriptures read around the world at Christmas time recount the story of the Magi seeking the baby Jesus and following a star that traveled from their part of the world and stopped over Bethlehem to help them find the newborn Messiah. We know from scientific study that stars do not travel in close proximity to the Earth, such that you could follow one as described. The Bible stories imply that the object or being was much closer than the rest of the stars in the firmament. So what was the Star of Bethlehem?”

This was simply divine energy calling attention to the sky in order to support the divine agenda underway in spreading the word of there being a change coming. So it was a supernatural phenomenon not a material celestial body, perhaps moved into position to be on display. This is the perennial difficulty that common sense, reason, and scientific inquiry always end up turning to the physical and known quantities to explain or describe the immaterial, the metaphysical, and the supernatural, which are beyond human understanding.