Fun fact: we don't know how many wise men came from the east. The idea that there were three is from the three different gifts mentioned. I don't know when the popular notion of them being kings came about, but that might have something to do with the value of the gifts. Another popular assumption is that these gifts funded the holy family's evacuation to Egypt, which makes sense. (Thanks, WTM!)
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I'm pretty sure the whole book is a work of fiction.
Or not.
That bit about 'Jesus flew through the air in a vessel 33 cubits long with flames issuing from behind' in Revelations, sort of sent me thinking ... and so BAM before my next mass I was all looking to the stars, the other suns, for where us people came from.
Haven't changed that thinking much in the 50 plus years since then.
Seems obvious that Jesus was an alien.
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