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Thread #144682   Message #3356201
Posted By: Don Firth
27-May-12 - 02:00 PM
Thread Name: BS: Young Earth Creationism Eureka--Contd...
Subject: RE: BS: Young Earth Creationism Eureka--Contd...
Lazarus.

Jesus may have administered CPR and nobody there knew what he was doing.

Or more likely--part of the myth.

I believe (not sure, though) that Jesus did exist. Josephus, a contemporary historian, mentions an itinerant preacher who was getting up the noses of some to the Establishment (both religious and governmental) and they crucified him for it.

As an old friend of mine, Lutheran pastor Bruce Pond, said, "All major religious prophets are said to have worked miracles of one sort or another. It's part of the mythology, a way to telling a good story. Often the person does something that we would consider ordinary, but the onlookers at the time didn't understand. And the fish gets bigger every time the story gets retold."

And this from an ordained pastor. Rather than pounding the Bible and insisting that something had to be true because the Bible said so, his speculative take on the improbable was one of the reasons I liked him.

Don Firth