RE: Empty Tomb Puzzle
April 3, 2012 at 11:21 pm
(This post was last modified: April 3, 2012 at 11:22 pm by Neo-Scholastic.)
(April 3, 2012 at 10:48 pm)FallentoReason Wrote: Wait, so you also believe that the names of the Gospels don't correspond to the people that wrote them (I think you mentioned that before), but at the same time you do believe disciples of Jesus wrote them?Anyone can be a disciple, but there were only 12 apostles. I suspect that each of the Gospels were not necessarily penned by the actual apostles, since simple fishermen would not have to learn to read or write. Pure speculation on my part, but I image each apostle having their own band of believers and each of the gospel accounts come out of those separate communities.
(April 3, 2012 at 10:48 pm)FallentoReason Wrote: Like the miracle of the two fish and five loaves, like no one is a huge crowd brought lunch. C’mon.In the Swedenborg tradition the 'revealed' texts have an inner spiritual meaning. The two fish and five loaves of barley are symbols for the type of instruction that Jesus 'fed' to the crowd. What I'm trying to say is this. Whether what happened that day was a miracle or not does not matter to me. Belief in miracles does not by itself cultivate lasting faith. Conviction comes from receiving instruction and applying it to life. As such the miraculous events are not so much 'evidence' of divinity but object lessons.
What do you mean?