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Originally Posted by Ohio
Jesus was semi-literate, but He could read minds?!?
Jesus couldn't speak Greek, but He could understand every Greek speaker who prayed to Him?
You guys are so "wise," you have lost all common sense. (Romans 1.22)
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By all accounts Jesus was a very insightful reader of human nature. I'm looking at the subject from the standpoint of historical probability. If you postulate a universe in which anything is possible, it is possible that Jesus was a divine being with supernatural powers. Nevertheless, given what we know about natural and human history it's probable that Jesus was a biologically typical member of the human species whose story became legendary and was mythologized through a process of oral tradition and religious experience culminating in the gospels. Indeed, many of the gospels which are not included in the canon make even more fantastical claims about Jesus.