28 Nov '05 23:17>
Originally posted by NemesioNice post
I believe it is irrelevant whether He did or He did not. Let's take both sides
of the issue.
Let's say He did. So what? A million other people in Jesus's time were miracle-
workers. If we are going to treat the stories in the Gospels as true reflections of
events, then why discard Josephus who speaks of many other people working
miracles? Or ...[text shortened]... erve to inspire the opened minded, irrespective of
their belief in a Supreme Being.
Nemesio
There is another explaination for some of Jesus's healing miracles, and that was that he could have had some medical knowledge. If he knew of a medieval version of CPR, then he could effectively have brought back people from the dead. Further Jesus may have been unaware of exactly how the process worked & may have just been following a sacred ritual based on the CPR movements, effectively deluding himself of his own supernatural powers.
If a CPR event was written up by the unintiated eye in a supersitious society then my guess is you would have something as a comparison to some of the stories of Jesus's healings as found in the gospels.
There are a couple of medical text from indian that are very old (2000-4000 years old). One of which details the procedure for reconstructing a persons nose that has been cut off (this was a common punishment) from a skin graft taken from the forehead. I don't know if there is a CPR procedure in these texts but when you consider how advanced this nose procedure is compared to our western medicine (plastic surgery is only about 200 years old), It has a strong possibility that something like CPR maybe there.
In fact there is a whole body of evidence that points that Jesus (or at least someone very much like him) spent some time in Indian. Which has mostly been ignored or poo poohed by the Christain community, for obvious reasons. If it were true, it could explain a lot.