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28 Dec 2024

Bizarre History Of Santa Claus

How much do you really know about Santa Claus? The story is one strange and weird history dating back over a thousand years. The original St. Nicholas of Bari was said to have rescued 3 children out of poverty, saved innocent soldiers from wrongful execution, and even chopped down a tree that was reportedly possessed. St. Nick was also at the Council of Nicaea, which was the crucial turning point of Christianity and a huge spark of controversy for the Catholic Church. Learn the true history missing from all the Christmas movies.

Then hear about another, darker Christmas figure who emerged for naughty children: Krampus. He is a horned, demon-goat figure who carries a sack and kidnaps children. Once upon a time, St. Nick and Krampus would supposedly go out together, and the bad children would be taken away or beaten with rods and sticks while the good ones would get toys.

Did these two figures merge, and that’s how today’s “Santa Claus” was born? Where did the red coat come from? And how did Coca-Cola influence what we know as Santa Claus?

Tune in to discover all of this, plus the weekly Mandela Effect and the Metaphysical Minute segments. on Rise.TV’s The Edge of Wonder, hosted by Ben Chasteen and Rob Counts.

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16 Jun 2024

Childhood Of Jesus Revealed

Jesus’ childhood was revealed in a manuscript, and new details emerged about a Britney Spears Mandela Effect.

A 1600-year-old manuscript was found that led to an extremely shocking, fascinating discovery. It seemed to be one of the earliest known manuscripts of the Gospel of Thomas, which mentioned a miracle Jesus performed as a child. But this brings up a very important question: Why isn’t Saint Thomas’ Gospel in the Bible today?

The Gospel of Thomas was discovered in 1945 at Nag Hammadi in Egypt. The manuscript contained 114 sayings attributed to Jesus. Some believe that the ideas Thomas mentioned sounded too absurd to be written in the Bible, or appeared to be potentially contradictory to the beliefs of Jesus’ other disciples. But what was exactly mentioned?

The Gospel of Mary Magdalene was also left out of the Bible. What exactly happened at the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD? But this led to other questions such as, “Does the Bible have a copyright?” Turns out, this question is much more complicated than what anyone would suspect. Join Ben Chasteen and Rob Counts on this episode of The Edge of Wonder as they reveal what they found.

Also on the show: Hear a personal story from a Rise.TV subscriber about a message from “beyond the grave,” and discover Ben’s updates about a Mandela Effect related to Britney Spears, which blew his mind.

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