{Gospel Miracles [continued]}[20th May 1989]

[Redbook6:129)][19890520:1632]{Gospel Miracles [continued]}[20th May 1989]

19890520.1632

Another way of putting it* is that none of them** involved visible physical reconstruction. Such feats would be placed in the area of magic, whether believed or not: the restraint shown in the range of Jesus’ healing miracles allows them to be considered as a part of that still current phenomenon, faith-healing: ‘Your faith has made you whole’ – which all but the most hardened sceptic must occasionally have doubts about the impossibility of.***

*[See last previous entry]

**[The Gospel miracles – see last previous entry]

***[But cf last previous entry, fn#]

****[sic!]

[cf placebo effect]

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