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I wrote an article about the resurrection about a year and a half ago after "The Passion of the Christ" came out. This is undoubtedly the biggest miracle of all in the Scriptures, and the one that seems to be hardest to refute, if you consider the disciples' actions before and after the account of Jesus rising from the dead. I won't belabor the point here, but if anyone wants to browse the article I wrote, it's at
www.jesusfreak.com/passion.asp. I have to give much credit to C.S. Lewis and Josh McDowell, among others, for observations about the improbability that the resurrection didn't happen.
posted by
jesusfreakdotcom
on September 20, 2005 at 10:29 PM
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Experience -
I hadn't heard that story. Interesting.
posted by
sannhet
on February 18, 2005 at 6:38 AM
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John of God
I saw a story of a man named John of God on TV. He was to be a healer of sickness. He was to be a midium of 25 deceased doctors. He preformed some surguries on people and healed them. These doctors supposedly took over John to perform these miracles. People from all over the world came to get healed. Faith is what brought the people. This man John was just a farmer never practiced any medicine ever. But said he saw Solomon when he was younger and a few other people. But thousands came to him in Brazil to get healed. Some were healed.
posted by
Experience
on February 17, 2005 at 8:00 PM
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sannhet
I don't have any problems either with all of the miracles, but they are not necessary to our faith as much as they were to those who saw them in person. They are all just stories to us, but they help us understand why no gospels were written until nearly all the eyewitnesses had died. If your daughter had been raised from the dead, would you need anything else?
posted by
pappy
on February 17, 2005 at 6:34 PM
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Empty -
I think you have to have faith to see as well.
posted by
sannhet
on February 17, 2005 at 2:43 PM
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you have to see
to believe.
to experience.
but you have to have faith enough to want to experience.
posted by
Xeno-x
on February 17, 2005 at 2:31 PM
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I had an Episcopal Priest explain
the loaves & fishes.
the numbers are important
they relate in one instance to Jews and in the other to Gentiles -- multiplying spiritual sustenance out very little.
he then showed where the cursing of the fig tree in one gospel was a parable in another.
it's all in the mind of the perceiver.
posted by
Xeno-x
on February 17, 2005 at 2:30 PM
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