(June 20, 2015 at 11:03 pm)Brakeman Wrote: The bible claims that:
Jesus raised a man from the dead, but he died again.
Jesus calmed a sea storm, but they continue to come back.
Jesus created water to wine, but the wine was quickly turned back to water.
Jesus fed 5000 with fish and bread, but they quickly became hungry again and the fish and bread ran out eventually. Furthermore, raw fish and bread is a pitiful meal that wouldn't be complete enough for even a half star restaurant.
Jesus founded a church that would split and devolve into pedophile dens.
Jesus healed a leaper that died.
Jesus healed a blind man's eyes that presumable failed as the man aged in the same way ours does, then of course his eyes died too.
Jesus' presence and teachings never brought peace to any historical city.
Evidently jesus' "Ju JU, WOO WOO" magic was pretty third rate, not one bit of his magic lasted or even made a tiny piece of physical evidence.
Those things were "signs"...they weren't intended to be permanent "fixes".
The Catechism explains this clearly [my emphasis added]:
548 The signs worked by Jesus attest that the Father has sent him. They invite belief in him.269 To those who turn to him in faith, he grants what they ask.270 So miracles strengthen faith in the One who does his Father's works; they bear witness that he is the Son of God.271 But his miracles can also be occasions for "offense";272 they are not intended to satisfy people's curiosity or desire for magic. Despite his evident miracles some people reject Jesus; he is even accused of acting by the power of demons.273
549 By freeing some individuals from the earthly evils of hunger, injustice, illness and death,274 Jesus performed messianic signs. Nevertheless he did not come to abolish all evils here below,275 but to free men from the gravest slavery, sin, which thwarts them in their vocation as God's sons and causes all forms of human bondage.276
550 The coming of God's kingdom means the defeat of Satan's: "If it is by the Spirit of God that I cast out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you."277 Jesus' exorcisms free some individuals from the domination of demons. They anticipate Jesus' great victory over "the ruler of this world".278 The kingdom of God will be definitively established through Christ's cross: "God reigned from the wood."279
