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To: Alamo-Girl; betty boop
It certainly seems that way - not unlike many of our correspondents on the science threads

No, not unlike the entire OT and good part of the NT, where magic ("miracles") were used exclusively as "proof" of divine power necessary for others to believe.

Like the part when Peter's shadow passing over someone is enough to heal them. It says, people would line the streets with sick. Do you think if any of this were true that Christianity would have failed in Israel?

13,465 posted on 04/24/2007 12:15:42 PM PDT by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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To: kosta50; Alamo-Girl
[.. Do you think if any of this were true that Christianity would have failed in Israel? ..]

Christianity was quite successful in Isreal until the diaspora.. When it REALLY began to spread.. like wildfire.. The pagans could'nt murder them fast enough.. It still spread..

Jews then were never really populous, anywhere.. Wonder how many Jews became Christians for the last 2000 years.. Not to speak of the fact that you can be a Jew and a Christian at the same time.. many Jews were Christians also.. Even today some Jewish familys will disown and shun a family member for becoming a christian..

13,468 posted on 04/24/2007 12:37:22 PM PDT by hosepipe (CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole....)
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