Part 1
In Chapter 4, Norm picks up his quest with the subject of Jesus’ miracles. Norm admits that this next task will be difficult: to find some historical reasoning in the miracles of Jesus. He sets out to the famous pool of Bethesda in Jerusalem, and notes that John’s knowledge of this place had been confirmed by archaeology. He finds it hard to believe that Jesus followers would have made all this up. The next day Norm first travels to the pool at Siloam in which he thinks is the Roman pool of Siloam. However, he is wrong, but is pointed to the actual pool at Siloam where Jesus healed the blind man. He continues on through Tabgha, and other places where Jesus had performed miracles.
Part 2
One of the things that stood out to me is that Fisk tries to give some sort of explanation for these miracles, some explanations by down grading them in a way. One way is that Fisk says that these miracles were perhaps not miracles as portrayed. He says that they could have been hysterical symptoms instead of actual blindness, deafness, loss of speech, etc. The biggest problem for me in this chapter is the fact that Fisk is trying to explain the unexplainable. Miracles cannot be defined by science; they break the laws so to speak. I am just not quite sure how you try to find clear historical evidence of a miracle that happened two thousand years ago. I feel like you either believe it, or you don’t believe it. In my opinion there is not much to look for when it comes to explaining these miracles. On a side note, I also saw that Norm noted intersexuality between Mark and John in the healing of the blind man miracle, but then explains that it could have been two different stories.
In Chapter 4, Norm picks up his quest with the subject of Jesus’ miracles. Norm admits that this next task will be difficult: to find some historical reasoning in the miracles of Jesus. He sets out to the famous pool of Bethesda in Jerusalem, and notes that John’s knowledge of this place had been confirmed by archaeology. He finds it hard to believe that Jesus followers would have made all this up. The next day Norm first travels to the pool at Siloam in which he thinks is the Roman pool of Siloam. However, he is wrong, but is pointed to the actual pool at Siloam where Jesus healed the blind man. He continues on through Tabgha, and other places where Jesus had performed miracles.
Part 2
One of the things that stood out to me is that Fisk tries to give some sort of explanation for these miracles, some explanations by down grading them in a way. One way is that Fisk says that these miracles were perhaps not miracles as portrayed. He says that they could have been hysterical symptoms instead of actual blindness, deafness, loss of speech, etc. The biggest problem for me in this chapter is the fact that Fisk is trying to explain the unexplainable. Miracles cannot be defined by science; they break the laws so to speak. I am just not quite sure how you try to find clear historical evidence of a miracle that happened two thousand years ago. I feel like you either believe it, or you don’t believe it. In my opinion there is not much to look for when it comes to explaining these miracles. On a side note, I also saw that Norm noted intersexuality between Mark and John in the healing of the blind man miracle, but then explains that it could have been two different stories.
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