Tag: Order

• Jesus on the Sea of Galilee

  Following on from my previous posts about the Feeding of the 5000 being a parable rather than historical, the same can be said about Jesus on the Sea of Galilee. He’s said to have instantly calmed its stormy waves – “a windstorm arose on the sea, so great that the boat was being swamped”. Normally,…

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  11th Feb 2023

  Christianity, Hebrew Bible, Jesus of Nazareth, Literature, Mythology, New Testament, Old Testament, Religion

  Chaos, Exodus, Flood, Galilee, Genesis, Jesus, Myth, Order, Revelation, Walking on Water

• The Gospels (11) ‘Walking on Water’

  Continuing to look at the Gospels as literature, in my view, hyperbole is used once again to heighten the impact of this 5th ‘sign’ in John 6. We’re told about a boat big enough to accommodate all of Jesus’ 12 disciples, which would be quite a size. As it happens, in 1986, a typical 1st…

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  10th Oct 2021

  Jesus of Nazareth, Literature, Mythology, New Testament, Philosophy, Religion

  Chaos, Day of the Lord, Gospels, Jesus, Myth, Order, Sea, Sea of Galilee