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Deut. xiv, 21.
Num. xxxi et al.
Ex. xxxii, 27.
Deut. vii, 16 et al.
Jer. xix, 9 et al.
Ex. xxii, 18.
Lev. xxv, 44-46.
Deut. xxi, 18-21; xiii, 6-9.
Lev. i, 14-15.
See the Old Testament.
Luke iv, 16.
Matt. xxvi, 63-64.
Mark xv, 61-62.
Luke xxii, 70.
John iv, 25-26.
John iii, 16.
John viii, 24.
Matt. xxv, 31-46.
Mark iii, 29.
Luke xiii, 3.
Mark ix, 43.
Matt. xxiii, 33.
Mark xvi, 16.
Matt. xxvi, 28.
Matt. xxii, 14.
Matt. vii, 14.
Luke xiii, 24.
Luke xxiii, 43.
John xx, 23.
John xiv, 16.
Matt. xxvi, 53.
Matt. xiii, 49.
Matt. viii, 29.
Luke iv, 34.
Mark iii, 11.
Mark xiii, 26.
Mark xiv, 62.
John i, 51.
Matt. xvii, 9.
FALSE IMPRESSIONS
Jesus not only held mistaken ideas about theology, as anyone but a Fundamentalist must admit, but he often gave impressions about earthly affairs that were unreliable to say the least. Occasionally his statements were actual misrepresentations of fact.
"For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth."
Evidently Jesus believed the story of Jonah and the whale, as well as the tale of Noah's ark both of which are now generally discredited. Moreover, his prophecy regarding his entombment was inaccurate, for he was only two nights and one day in the heart of the earth, from Friday night to Sunday morning.
Jesus was decidedly mistaken in his theory of the approaching end of the world.
"Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." "Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come." "There be some standing here which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom." "And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come ... Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled." "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand." "So ye in like manner, when ye shall see these things come to pass, know that it is nigh, even at the doors. Verily I say unto you, that this generation shall not pass, till all these things be done." "The hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation."
Jesus was confident that the day of judgment was coming in the first century, but it has not come yet, nineteen hundred years later. This erroneous belief in the imminent end of the world had an important bearing upon his entire philosophy; for if the end of the world was so near it was far more important to prepare for life hereafter than to be concerned over mundane affairs. May we not view with doubt any of Jesus' teachings that depended upon his mistaken conception of the duration of the world?
Jesus is reported to have fed 5,000 people with five loaves and two fishes, and again 4,000 with seven loaves and a few small fishes. He walked on the water, calmed the seas, raised three persons from the dead and performed other miracles contrary to natural laws. These wondrous acts were depended upon by him to convince the people that he was the expected Messiah: "Go and shew John again those things which ye do hear and see: the blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them."
Jesus assured his disciples that they too would be able to perform miracles: "And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover." "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do."
Jesus set great store by these marvels that only magicians attempt nowadays. Ministers of the apostolic succession cannot cast out devils or take up serpents, and they are affected by deadly drinks the same as others. Jesus had a primitive idea of the value of such magic. Either he sought to deceive the gullible, or, as is more likely, was himself overcredulous. It is important to remember that Jesus stressed the value of enchantment and advised his successors to conjure in his name.
If the miraculous had not been connected with the name of Jesus, it is probable that he never would have been heard of. His ethical teachings alone would not have won for him the exalted position that has come from the stories of his miraculous birth, life and ascension. In other words, his fame rests upon the supernatural side of his life that is now discredited by many of his followers.
The remarks of Jesus on the subject of death were not accurate. "If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death." "Whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die."
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