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Bryan Hyde's avatar

It's sobering how the mass murder of innocents throughout history has always come down to how many people were willing to obey wicked laws and orders. One of our greatest challenges is to not become blindly obedient to men.

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Persephone's avatar

"Perhaps if they had been the Three Anarchists, the Massacre of the Innocents wouldn’t have happened."

There is no need for "perhaps."

It would have happened!

Matthew 2:17-18 explains this. This very unfortunate event was said by prophet Jeremiah years before it happened. To imagine it as dependant on only the will of three Magi is to miss the bigger picture.

It wouldn't have mattered if the three Magi were who they were or who we want them to be, the dealdy decree was going to happen. To fulfill yet another prophesy regarding the miraculousness associated with the Plan of Salvation. In this case the birth of our Savior and his safety.

Who could or can tell the future, with verified events?!

Point here and everywhere else in the Bible is, allow me to capitalize this: GOD MADE, not man made. Forseen, forplanned. What? How you get saved. And if you actually read and connected a few dots in that book, you'd find a sad, compassionate story, filled with sacrifice for the rest of us who don't deserve it.

And as a side note, the three Magi obeyed the warning they were given in a dream and returned home by another route, keeping thus the location of the Holy baby secret, just this demands a respectful description about them. They were approached by the Almighty. They obeyed authority!

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