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Wayne:
OK now Jesus walks on water. I'm gonna tell you the truth, best as I can guess.
Someone very close to me, a devout traditional Christian who lived in the Middle East for years, went to this place on the Sea of Galilee. She said the coastline is very flat. You couldn't imagine how a boat could sail there.
You'd have to walk through shallow water a long long way before you could get to water deep enough where a boat could sail.
:-\
injest:
--- Quote from: wdj on January 13, 2008, 12:44:51 am ---OK now Jesus walks on water. I'm gonna tell you the truth, best as I can guess.
Someone very close to me, a devout traditional Christian who lived in the Middle East for years, went to this place on the Sea of Galilee. She said the coastline is very flat. You couldn't imagine how a boat could sail there.
You'd have to walk through shallow water a long long way before you could get to water deep enough where a boat could sail.
:-\
--- End quote ---
ok...this is off topic...so I am sorry..
but I saw a program about the miracles surrounding the time of Moses...
and they were correlating the events to real historical events...like the parting of the Red Sea for example...right around that time was when a volcano erupted out in the ocean and destroyed an island...causing a massive tidal wave. The people on the show were saying maybe that is what cause the water to pull back to let the Isrealites to pass
now the point I am trying to make is this....That doesnt' make it any less of a miracle...Just because we can see HOW it was done. Who make the volcano explode at THAT particular time?
just because there is a natural reason doesn't mean there is no miracle....(and yes I know that sounds stupid...I will shut up)
Wayne:
Jesus makes what seems to be a play on words.
"The will of My Fatheris that everyone who beholds the Son and believes in Him will have eternal life, and I Myself will raise him up on the last day."
Elsewhere he uses this phrase "raise him up" in a sense that seems to refer to himself being raised up on the cross on his own last day.
Seems a bit depressing really. :P
Wayne:
Jesus says "My flesh is true food, and My blood is true drink." We all have a picture of how this is interpreted now, the Last Supper. But at the time people interpreted it absolutely literally.
The disciples said "this is a difficult statement. Who can listen to it." As a result, many left Jesus and did not walk with him any more (verse 66).
The authorities said "Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does He now say, 'I have come down out of heaven'?"
But Peter said "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have words of eternal life. We have believed and have come to know that you are the Holy One of God."
Jesus said "Did I myself not choose you, the twelve, and yet one of you is a devil?"
The narrator tells us Jesus meant Judas Iscariot, who would soon betray him.
So that's it for chapter 6. Thoughts? :)
injest:
does it seem at this point people are beginning to wonder? question? it seems like he is getting more ?extreme? as time goes by? maybe he knows time is short and he is pushing?
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