My Bible dictionary info is the Greek word in Luke’s report, was “phaine” meaning “staff”….but Old Testament Hebrew in Chronicles 32 used “staff”; but Job 39:9 and Prov.14:4 and Isa.1:3 used a word meaning “crib”….-Whatever word was used, God the Son chose to be born in a “stable” in His incarnation birth to the Virgin Mary, and his human stepfather Joseph, who obeyed God who told him in a dream that he should go ahead with the marriage, because the baby was a divine miracle.-No other religion has such a story, prophesied from Genesis in the Garden of Eden to be fulfilled as reported in the Gospels of the New Testament. No other religion has a divine Savior with the authority and power to grant total forgiveness to sinners who repent, and to give eternal life that cannot be taken away to genuine believers. No other religion has a 66-book Bible with hundreds of prophecieswith many already fulfilled, and more to come. -I thank God that as of 2012, the latest data I found, an estimated 2 billion humans alive today have chosen to be Christian. The Pentecost Church AD 33 began a membership to converts with Faith in Jesus the Christ, surely numbering by now in a huge number, trillions? -The world needed Jesus, and needed the stability in human life that results from Christian Bible teachings given by God.Absent God’s standards, the world is an evil anarchy, overfilling with sins. God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit is the only source for redeeming souls and for redeeming the world and for blessing the earth with true Peace when Jesus Returns. I hope He comes soon.
My Bible dictionary info is the Greek word in Luke’s report, was “phaine” meaning “staff”….but Old Testament Hebrew in Chronicles 32 used “staff”; but Job 39:9 and Prov.14:4 and Isa.1:3 used a word meaning “crib”….-Whatever word was used, God the Son chose to be born in a “stable” in His incarnation birth to the Virgin Mary, and his human stepfather Joseph, who obeyed God who told him in a dream that he should go ahead with the marriage, because the baby was a divine miracle.-No other religion has such a story, prophesied from Genesis in the Garden of Eden to be fulfilled as reported in the Gospels of the New Testament. No other religion has a divine Savior with the authority and power to grant total forgiveness to sinners who repent, and to give eternal life that cannot be taken away to genuine believers. No other religion has a 66-book Bible with hundreds of prophecieswith many already fulfilled, and more to come. -I thank God that as of 2012, the latest data I found, an estimated 2 billion humans alive today have chosen to be Christian. The Pentecost Church AD 33 began a membership to converts with Faith in Jesus the Christ, surely numbering by now in a huge number, trillions? -The world needed Jesus, and needed the stability in human life that results from Christian Bible teachings given by God.Absent God’s standards, the world is an evil anarchy, overfilling with sins. God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit is the only source for redeeming souls and for redeeming the world and for blessing the earth with true Peace when Jesus Returns. I hope He comes soon.