The God the Magi Knew
Why the First People to Recognize Jesus Worshipped Ahura Mazda — and What That Tells Us About Who His Father Really Was The Christmas story begins with a problem nobody talks about. When Jesus was born, the people who found him first were not Jewish priests. They were not rabbis who had studied the Torah their whole lives. They were not the disciples who would later walk with him. The first people to recognize Jesus, to travel specifically to find him, to kneel before him and declare who he was — were Persian fire priests.
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Why the First People to Recognize Jesus Worshipped Ahura Mazda — and What That Tells Us About Who His Father Really Was The Christmas story begins with a problem nobody talks about. When Jesus was born, the people who found him first were not Jewish priests. They were not rabbis who had studied the Torah their whole lives. They were not the disciples who would later walk with him. The first people to recognize Jesus, to travel specifically to find him, to kneel before him and declare who he was — were Persian fire priests. Zoroastrians. Men who worshipped a God named Ahura Mazda. The canonical Gospel of Matthew never calls them kings. It calls them magi — a precise term with a precise meaning in the ancient world. Magi were the priestly caste of Zoroastrianism, the religion of ancient Persia. They tended sacred fires. They studied the stars as expressions of divine will.
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