and they probably were meant to all come from the same place but in artwork they were drawn as three different races
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and made into the "Three Kings" of different countries to make the scene more interesting
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somehow it became "canon" that the Three Kings were an old white man, a middle-aged Arab man and a young black man
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it's just interesting how these things develop out of whole cloth -- their names are Gaspar, Melchior and Balthasar
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fascinating for someone like me who was taught that the Bible is True.
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the funny thing is by being a fundamentalist who believes in a literal Bible you have to sweep aside all this tradition
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and the tradition has value in itself if you don't go looking to it for truth
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like there's zero chance even for a Biblical literalist that the Three Kings from artwork ever existed
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thanks for an interesting conversation. I love this stuff
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