A Prophecy Unfolds

 Every christmas growing up, I always found the story of the nativity exciting and heartwarming to read. One part always haunted me though, when King Herod ordered the deaths of all of the little boys in the kingdom based on a prophecy that one of them would take over his kingdom. I never understood how someone could base such a horrible act on something that to me was an old man telling a powerful king a story about a little boy. But to people in bible times, prophecies were a viable source of information since a lot of faith was placed in less solid ideas. People did not have access to the amount of knowledge and concrete evidence available to people nowadays. 

"THE ICON OF THE NATIVITY." Web. 06 Dec. 2010.        <http://www.goarch.org/archdiocese/departments/outreach/nativity/nativity.pdf>.