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Can you still trust Jesus if he intentionally let Lazarus die and his sisters suffer that trauma?

Posted on March 30, 2017 by PaulVK

What did Jesus Want to Accomplish by Raising Lazarus from the Dead? Our story today is a well known one. Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead. Now you may not believe this ever happened, your may believe it did. But … Continue reading →

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Why the Poor Are Always Us and Why Mary Was the Best Disciple

Posted on March 11, 2016 by PaulVK

  Poverty “Larry” (I have no idea if this was his legal name) used to sleep under a bush in the back lawn of the church more than a decade ago. He painted apartments for a guy who needed to … Continue reading →

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Sickness Unto Death

Posted on April 3, 2014 by PaulVK

Why Didn’t Jesus Just Start Raising Lots of People? We saw with the Iranian Cleric raising the dead thought experiment that a person possessing this kind of power walking around among us would almost certainly provoke us to kill this person … Continue reading →

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Augustine on the kind of death we don’t pay as much attention to

Posted on April 3, 2014 by PaulVK

The third example of death is Lazarus. A grievous kind of death it is, and is distinguished as a habit of wickedness. For it is one thing to fall into sin, another to form the habit of sinning. He who … Continue reading →

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Why Divine Personhood Offends us to the point of Deicide

Posted on April 3, 2014 by PaulVK

Raising the Dead Thought Experiment The above link is the raising the dead thought experiment where I discuss what might happen if an Iranian cleric was able to raise the dead and why the peoples of the world might have … Continue reading →

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Would the World Allow Anyone Who Could Raise the Dead to Live?

Posted on April 3, 2014 by PaulVK

Iranian Cleric Raises the Dead Imagine an Iranian cleric raised a man who was dead for four days. What would happen? First there would be skepticism. Surely this didn’t happen. Let’s say that there was documentation. Dead for four days, … Continue reading →

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