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Again, we must provide context, and a measure of exegetics. There are many more layers of truth in "You say it" versus "Yes." First, the context. This happens twice in the Gospels -- in front of the Pharisees (who ask if he is Messiah) and in front of Pilate (who asks if he is King). In both...

We don't have access to the "fact" of the matter, we only have the reports. The people who claim she is dead could be unreliable narrators; just because they think she's dead doesn't mean she actually is dead. Even today, people can mistake being comatose for being dead. In truth, we don't...

I think this is largely correct, but with some caveats. First, Jesus heals all who have faith. Consider the Syrophoenician Woman (a Gentile) in Matthew 15: 21-28. She begs Jesus to cast demons out of her daughter. Jesus initially refuses: "I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of...

I don't think this interpretation is correct. First, we have to take it in context. Jairus comes to Jesus, asking him to heal his daughter. Jesus tells him to have faith, and it will be so. As they go to his house, a woman who's bled for twelve years touches Jesus's hem, also from a place of...

I wanted to come back to a strand from earlier in the thread: You'd need to point me to what you're referencing with 2 and 3, but I think I can answer the other ones. However, I don't think point 1 can be answered "yes or no." Because on point 1, I think "sleep" is a metaphor. Metaphor is...

It believe that scene was between Matthew and Mary, but yes, she was definitely writing something. I hadn't considered, though, that it was reference to The Gospel of Mary. (BTW, I like your user name. It reads as both "shepherds word" and "shepherd sword.") Anyways, at first blush, I...

Well, to be fair, I never liked Ramah that much -- not that I had any good reason not to like her, I just didn't, possibly a reaction to how the actress would scrunch her nose. Also, I knew some kind of scene like that was coming -- I was looking up why the actor who played Phillip had changed...

My best friend asked me to watch The Chosen with her about 6 weeks ago. As someone who's taken a very long time to come around, perhaps my opinion doesn't count for much, but for me at least, the show has facilitated a deepening of my faith, despite some of its failings as others have pointed...

Hello. :blush: It has taken me a very long while to accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior, so I have to be grateful I was given enough time to do so (I had a "near-death" or "out-of-body" experience back in 2007, so I might be a slow learner when it comes to the most important things)...