Many people believe that Jesus performed miracles. But they don’t believe he was divine. Marcus Borg is probably one of those people.
Gary Habermas is one of the greatest scholars living today.
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Well, there it is! I’m convinced, now that a mere mortal has affirmed the existence of the Divine!
Bkmk
I’ve read similar analyses concerning His resurrection. It’s a well established fact.
In the 1996-1998 time-frame, when William F. Buckley was still alive supervising National Review, an ophthalmic surgeon’s article came out. The doctor had restored sight to many patients and given sight to many patients who had been blind from birth.
He reported on one patient, blind from birth, who was asked by the surgeon what he could see after the operation. He repeated almost verbatim the words of the blind man at Bethsaida in Mark 8, “I see men walking, but they look like trees.” I think the patient’s words were more like, “I can’t tell trees from men walking around, but I can see.”
As the doctor said, no one at the time of writing the Bible had any way to predict this kind of reported perception by a newly-seeing person, as this new surgery was only a few years old. Those words could have been put in the Bible only because Jesus gave sight to a blind person.
I saved that magazine in a “safe place” for years, but in one house-cleaning or another, my wife found an old magazine and threw it out. But anyone with access to hard copies or an internet file of back issues of National Review can find it.