"A study of the life of Jesus that excludes the miraculous is destined from the start to produce a Jesus who is an aberration. He will be a stranger both to his opponents, who acknowledged his miracles (compare Mk 3:22; b. Sanhedrin 43a), and to his followers, who will no longer be able to identify him as the object of their faith. There is a certain wholeness about the Jesus who preached the arrival of the kingdom of God, who ate with tax collectors and sinners, who healed the sick and raised the dead, who dies sacrificially on the cross and rose triumphantly from the dead. This wholeness produces an overall portrayal of Jesus of Nazareth that is convincing to a sympathetic reader of the Gospels. Attempts to strip the supernatural from Jesus' life can only produce a Jesus so radically different that he is unrecognizable and his impact on history unexplainable."
Showing posts with label Miracle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Miracle. Show all posts
Jul 21, 2012
Jesus and Miracles
Dec 23, 2011
Interview with Craig Keener
The Cristianbook.com blog has a four part interview with Craig Keener concerning his Miracles book here.
May 15, 2008
Drowned Man "Tried to Walk on Water"
Surely there is a lesson or illustration in this tragic story of a man in Brighton England who apparently had messianic delusions and drowned after trying unsuccessfully to walk on water. I am reminded of the assertion of C. S. Lewis and others that Jesus of Nazareth was either liar, lunatic, or Lord.
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