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How did we get some of the non-biblical details of the Nativity story?
eg: Mary & Joseph arriving ‘just in time’; the Donkey, the innkeeper, the stable, the Magi visiting close to the the time of the birth? They all came from a heretical text called the The Protoevangelium of James. It is a pseudepigraphal work deliberately named to mislead people into thinking it was written by the biblical James. What are we doing having anything to do with such a book? Let's not blunt our double-edged swords.

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