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rossmacrae Inner circle Arlington, Virginia 2477 Posts |
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On 2009-04-25 15:07, Josh the Superfluous wrote: I know it's tempting for rationalists and "debunkers" to go WAY round the bend trying to explain Biblical miracles, but that's trying to answer the wrong question. I don't care if (for example) the Hebrews were trying to cross the Red Sea or the Reed Sea mudflats, or if there were unusually strong winds that season, or any other tortured effort to "explain" ... the right question is, "what is this story trying to teach'? Similarly, if you want to "explain away" Jesus's the miracles attributed to Jesus, it's no harder than the dozens of audience-guesses at how Copperfield flies, or the "I know how you did that"s at how you do any effect ... the guesses are easy to come up with, always wrong, and they miss the point entirely (which is: what are you supposed to get from watching this?) |
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27300 Posts |
Uh oh - getting into textual analysis and mindreading the author...
what do you think that would mean to someone who wants to get paid for teaching?
...to all the coins I've dropped here
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Josh the Superfluous Inner circle The man of 1881 Posts |
Uh...Ross....I was joking. It was a reference to kids exposing magic tricks...
My bad.
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rossmacrae Inner circle Arlington, Virginia 2477 Posts |
You mean my post was .... superfluous?
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tommy Eternal Order Devil's Island 16543 Posts |
All that is written here is worthless, for it is the work of mortals.
If there is a single truth about Magic, it is that nothing on earth so efficiently evades it.
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Pakar Ilusi Inner circle 5777 Posts |
Wouldn't be The Bible if it was magicless.
That's true for any of the other "holy" books...
"Dreams aren't a matter of Chance but a matter of Choice." -DC-
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