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To: Palter

>> If Jesus was the son of a poor itinerant carpenter with some radical ideas nobody would have been that concerned about what he said.

... until the “son of a poor carpenter” starts raising people from the dead. Miracles performed on command tend to draw attention ... even to idnviduals who are otherwise unlikely to be listened to.

SnakeDoc


9 posted on 04/07/2010 7:24:52 AM PDT by SnakeDoctor ("The world will know that free men stood against a tyrant ... that even a god-king can bleed." - 300)
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To: SnakeDoctor

“until the “son of a poor carpenter” starts raising people from the dead. Miracles performed on command tend to draw attention “

...which makes the quote, “He saved others, let him save himself”, all the more ironic: He PERFORMED MIRACLES.

Colonel, USAFR


36 posted on 04/07/2010 8:10:36 AM PDT by jagusafr (Don't make deals with pirates)
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