Matthew 8
Adam -- in chapter 8 verse 10-12 it seems like that guy is just paying lip service to jesus in hopes that he is holy. I mean I know that Jesus could know if the dude is genuine but if I was there I would think the guy was just sucking up or something. I guess my question is....Is that all a person has to do to have "such great faith."
Kelsey-- I don't understand how this is all fitting together, it seems like there's a big jump in Jesus's paradigm. Before he basically said that he shouldn't have to perform miracles for people to know who he is, but now he is going around and performing miracles. I understand why this needs to be done -- I mean, who's going to believe a guy that just says he's the son of God, you need some sort of backing... -- but I don't understand what caused the switch. Also, I don't understand how all of a sudden everyone just seems to know he's the Lord. He JUST had his little meeting with the disciples on the mountain side and as soon as he comes down there's a man with leprosy who somehow knows he can cure his sickness. Was there a jump in time that wasn't explained? And how is it that word spread so fast? It's not like they could just pick up a phone back then...
Kelsey-- I don't understand how this is all fitting together, it seems like there's a big jump in Jesus's paradigm. Before he basically said that he shouldn't have to perform miracles for people to know who he is, but now he is going around and performing miracles. I understand why this needs to be done -- I mean, who's going to believe a guy that just says he's the son of God, you need some sort of backing... -- but I don't understand what caused the switch. Also, I don't understand how all of a sudden everyone just seems to know he's the Lord. He JUST had his little meeting with the disciples on the mountain side and as soon as he comes down there's a man with leprosy who somehow knows he can cure his sickness. Was there a jump in time that wasn't explained? And how is it that word spread so fast? It's not like they could just pick up a phone back then...
posted by Kelsey N. at 11:02 PM
2 Comments:
Adam,
I see the centurion just comparing Jesus' aurthority to what he knows and
centurions in that day had all the authority. He was saying that his authority was nothing compared to Jesus. This to me was much faith because that was like a state trooper who is all that saying I'm nothing compared to you Jesus. If he said this in front of others, think what a testament this was.
Kelsey,
Imagine that you live in a little community the phone is the well where you get water. Jesus was healing people and then went into the mountains. It would be all over by the afternoon what he did. He was training the disciples. And preparing us to read this centuries later. The miracles were only performed to get the disciples attention I believe. We should have enough faith for miracles to happen like that everyday now. If I can be so bold as to understand the works of Jesus. He was trying to save souls. What is a few miracles in order to get the bigger picture across.
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