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Considering he was part of god why didnt jesus do more good than just healing the odd leper like inventing penicilin or explaining GM crops? seems to me there has been many greater mortals born than jesus.
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Originally Posted by mikhail  Considering he was part of god why didnt jesus do more good than just healing the odd leper like inventing penicilin or explaining GM crops? seems to me there has been many greater mortals born than jesus. | Agreed.
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Setting aside the biggest miracle of all that he started an entire religion. Here are just a few of the miracles he performed. Jesus Saves: Hope for the Weary - Miracles of Jesus Quote: 1.
Jesus attended a wedding and they ran out of wine to drink. After His disciples filled six water pots with water Jesus caused the water to become very tasty wine.
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Jesus healed a boy who was about to die.
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Jesus healed a man with an unclean spirit.
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Jesus healed Simon's mother-in-law from a fever. At the same home He also healed many who were sick of different diseases and cast out many devils.
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Jesus healed a man of leprosy.
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Jesus healed a paralytic who could not walk.
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Jesus healed an impotent man.
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Jesus cured many people of infirmities and plagues and of evil spirits.
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Jesus healed a man with a withered hand.
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Jesus healed multitudes of people.
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Jesus healed a servant who was sick and tormented.
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Jesus healed a dead man who then sat up and began to speak.
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Jesus healed one possessed with a devil, caused the blind to see and the mute to speak.
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Jesus rebuked the winds and the sea that covered the boat and the sea became calm.
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Jesus cast the devils out of two exceedingly fierce men. These men were naked, wild and could not be held with chains. They were living in the cemetery.
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Jesus healed a woman who had been bleeding for 12 years and the doctors could not cure her. She touched His clothing and was healed instantly.
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Jesus took a girl who died at the age of 12 and caused her to walk and to eat.
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Jesus healed two blind men and a mute man, and every sickness.
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Jesus' disciples healed all manner of sickness and disease.
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Jesus took two fish and 5 rolls of bread and fed 5000 men plus the women and children and had 12 baskets of food left over.
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Jesus walked on the water during a bad storm.
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Jesus healed as many as touched Him or touched the border of his clothing.
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Jesus healed a girl grievously vexed with a devil.
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Jesus caused multitudes of lame to walk, blind to see, mute to talk, and maimed to be made whole.
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Jesus healed a deaf man who had a speech impediment, tongue was loosed.
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Jesus fed 4,000 men plus women and children with 7 pieces of bread and a few little fish, and 7 baskets full were left over.
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Jesus healed a blind man.
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Jesus healed lunatic who was foaming at the mouth and gnashing his teeth as he threw himself into the fire.
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Jesus healed a man who was blind from his birth.
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Jesus heals a woman who had a spirit of infirmity 18 years; she was bowed over and could not stand up.
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Jesus healed man of dropsy.
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Jesus raised Lazarus who had been dead four days.
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Jesus healed 10 men who were lepers.
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Jesus healed blind Bartimeus.
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Jesus touched and healed the soldier whose right ear had been cut off with a sword.
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Jesus was resurrected from the dead after 3 days.
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But surely just coming up with penicilin would be more helpful | |
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Originally Posted by mikhail ^^
But surely just coming up with penicilin would be more helpful |
You are asking me to tell you why Jesus chose to do some miracle's over others, I can't answer that but I bet the person that was cured of blindness was glad Jesus chose that over penicillin. | |
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Norman Borlaug has saved and fed over a billion people, Jesus doesn't have near his stats.
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Starting an entire religion is not really a miracle. Otherwise the Egyptians, Muhammad and Buddah should be equally miraculous.
Bible superstitions aside as they are up for interpretation or scientific scrutiny the real miracle that Jesus taught that other religions didn't emphasize as much was the care and forgiveness of others.
Buddhism comes in a close second but then it is really more self-enlightenment than to actually go out and do good towards your fellow neighbor. | |
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Originally Posted by jfuh Starting an entire religion is not really a miracle. Otherwise the Egyptians, Muhammad and Buddah should be equally miraculous.
Bible superstitions aside as they are up for interpretation or scientific scrutiny the real miracle that Jesus taught that other religions didn't emphasize as much was the care and forgiveness of others.
Buddhism comes in a close second but then it is really more self-enlightenment than to actually go out and do good towards your fellow neighbor. | Well to Muslims Mohammad was miraculous just as Buddha is to Buddhists so why not Jesus. | |
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Originally Posted by Just Me 2 Well to Muslims Mohammad was miraculous just as Buddha is to Buddhists so why not Jesus. | I can't speak for muslims, however I do not believe that Mohammad had ever preformed miracles nor was regarded as a supernatural being. As Buddha aka Siddhārtha Gautama performed no miracles.
Jesus different from other religions figures, within christianity, is endowed as being a supernatural being performing supernatural miracles. Such acceptance requires faith, which I do not place in the story tellings of an human written, translated, edited, and interpreted book. | |
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Jesus took more torture than any man living today could probably handle and he did it for everyone on earth. Mohammed and Buhda didn't do that, did they? | |
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