essay Flashcards
intro x4
37 miracles, debated legitimacy claims, and mere stories. new Testament is the ordained word of God and authority, 35 years old embellished?
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walked on water - in mark 6:47
Links to job 9:8 ‘he alone, stretches out the heavens and treads on the waves of the sea’
- x3
wiles
Interventionist God on moral grounds
God’s action in the world - book
Trivial miracles, but not Hiroshima or auschwitz. David-based concept of a God, which to him is not worthy of worship, so meaning Jesus is not true.
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healing of the blind man
‘if this man were not god, he could do nothing’
NT WRIGHT only god can cleanse sins and restore sight
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BULTMANN - modern era, strip away myths.
husk = outer disposable fictitious element of story
kernel = meaning = kerygma
feeding of 5000 = encouraged to share (link to blind man = morality and god
5 x1
however blind man prophecy
‘The eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf unstopped’ Messianic Prophecy Isiah
- x3
resurrection - this also fulfil Isaiah 53:10 and psalms 16:10
 gods ultimate show of power of evil, conquers death, and victory over sin, offers eternal life, and shows authority over creation and validates claims of his identity of son of God
Also, he is unique he’s the only human to do this
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catechism of the Catholic Church- clear of his authority
‘ miracle, strengthen faith in the one who does his fathers work ; they bear witness that he is the son of God’
8 x3 (criticism as well)
Hume - miracles do not need to be trusted -witnesses to miracles are usually uneducated people with nothing to lose
Is a violation of the laws of nature
‘ESSAYS ON MIRACLES’
However !!! Saint Peter crucified did he have nothing to lose?
9 x3
NAMES
‘saviour, who is christ the lord’ Luke 2:11
saves and forgives sins - only god can do this ‘boone comes to the father except thru me’ JOHN
lord- adonai in greek god - yahweh (interchangeably used in old testament and when describing jesus)
