In the teaching of
Jesus nothing of this kind is found, rather the warning against all such calculation:
Not exact matches
@Gary: you have all
kinds of reasons to believe that
Jesus DID have sex, just
nothing directly written to that effect.
There are missionaries to Africa / Asia / Middle East that tell many stories
of unbelievers who say they saw
Jesus in a dream before the missionary came to them and there is
nothing to support nor dispel this
kind of miracle.
By looking at my study guide for my new book,
Nothing but the Blood
of Jesus, you will see what
kind of questions are answered in the book.
So we are delivered from the «imitation
of Jesus» type
of theology and from that
kind of reductionist thinking which interpreted Christianity as «following a great prophet» and
nothing more.
I see hypocrisy and vitriol from both Christians, Agnostics, and Atheists so it just proves that people are still people, being gay or fat or devoutly Christian or not has
nothing to do what
kind of person you are and my wife and I have gay and straight friends, agnostic friends, evangelical friends, we don't discriminate, which is what
Jesus Christ would have done in the first place.
He concludes his critical investigation in The Historical
Jesus: The Life
of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant with the astonishing sentence «If you can not believe in something produced by reconstruction, you may have
nothing left to believe in...» [5] Yet no critical reconstruction
of any
kind can achieve a representation
of the original reality
of Jesus» career beyond the realm
of probability.
Jesus says
nothing of this
kind.
An article in the Charleston newspaper had referred to the explosion as suspicious, and there had been some
kind of investigation, though
nothing had ever come
of it — things Mike and I'd discovered only because we'd sneaked the clipping from Mother's dresser drawer, a strange, secret place filled with fractured rosaries, discarded saint medals, holy cards, and a small statue
of Jesus missing his left arm.