Why are we taught in Sunday school that Jesus raised Jairus’s daughter from the dead?<\/p>\n
It has always seemed completely obvious to me that she was in a coma — because Jesus said so<\/i>! You would think that being endowed with divine knowledge he would know better than the townspeople…<\/p>\n
In an extremely unscientific search of the internets, I keep coming across sermons that say as an aside “well, she may<\/i> just have been in a coma, but that doesn’t detract from the miracle, because she was as good as dead”.<\/p>\n
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?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 … Continue reading “A Fairly Silly Biblioblog”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[70],"class_list":["post-875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants","tag-exegesis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=875"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":877,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions\/877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}