XPost: alt.religion.wicca, alt.arts.poetry.comments, alt.writing
XPost: alt.magick
From: dmh7@skypoint.com
joerevskelton@bellsouth.net wrote:
> "Dale Houstman" wrote in message
> news:422633E5.8060109@skypoint.com...
>
>>
>>Karla wrote:
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>>
>>>>P
>>>
>>>
>>>I agree that Jesus, using the Word, heals(ed) bodies, souls and minds,
>>
> gave,
>
>>>and still gives purpose to lives, and stands ready to do the same today.
>>>Several witnesses wrote down accountings of these magic moments. The
>>>accountings have been reprinted for hundreds of years.
>>
>>Actually, quite untrue. There are NO written accounts by any witness to
>>these supposed miracles,
>
>
> Three of the four gospels are attributed to witnesses.
True, but - as I said - the accounts come long after thesupposed
incidents. Even in modern times, we have the phenomenon of a supposed
eye-witness giving what turns out to be false - or inflated - testimony.
This occurs most frequently when a "cult of personality" has grown about
the subject at hand. In that case, the witness him/herself can either be
self-deluded (liquid memories informed by mythology) or - due to certain
advantages of "professed closeness" to the subject will simply lie to
bolster their own importance. The fact remains that there are NO
accounts - independent of certain supposed friends of Jesus - of this
alleged celebrity; a man who was supposed to be shaking the foundations
of the Roman world. It is beyond strange.
The first non-personally connected story of Jesus occured long after his
supposed life and death, and its very isolated nature suggests that -
once again - the writer was using a powerful myth to bolster his own
profile.
dmh
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