Why are we taught in Sunday school that Jesus raised Jairus’s daughter from the dead?
It has always seemed completely obvious to me that she was in a coma — because Jesus said so! You would think that being endowed with divine knowledge he would know better than the townspeople…
In an extremely unscientific search of the internets, I keep coming across sermons that say as an aside “well, she may just have been in a coma, but that doesn’t detract from the miracle, because she was as good as dead”.
Why the defensiveness? It’s not as if the NT is lacking in resurrections. Why do we in effect call Christ a liar in order to boost his supernatural powers? Why isn’t coma-girl the default interpretation?
It would have been just as much of a miracle to wake her from a coma back then anyway, so what’s the big deal.
Oooh, I like this! Never thought of it like that before. Keep this stuff coming, I find it all very interesting.
I also liked the comment about calling the Holy Spirit ‘they.’ Gender and religion, so much power and controversy there, isn’t there? Fascinating.