Conquering Lion

If it happens continuously for a couple of years, that people are abducted and tortured, it will stop appearing abominable. It will appear to be part of our normal - and that could be part of the torturers’ strategy. It will shock you that any evil done repeatedly loses shock value, and people can get used to it - or even defend it as ‘our way’ or ‘culture’. Just the same way some fathers negotiate and sell their own daughters and find it reasonable to think of the prices they set as ‘tokens of appreciation’ . No matter how glaring or obvious, no explanation of the problems of the practice will clear the fog of ‘normal’ from their heads. The answer will be: This is how we have always done it.

Jesus did not simply perform his miracles on unknown strangers that appeared to him in the church without being known by the congregations. Almost in all accounts of his miracles, although he demanded faith of those he healed, the miracles were in such a way that even doubters could verify. When he raises Lazarus from the dead, he goes for a dead person that was known by all to be dead and already stinking. He went there four days after his death and burial, when no one could doubt that we was dead. He asked them to open the grave themselves, and commanded him to rise. When he heals a blind man, he randomly identifies a KNOWN blind man in the crowd and perform the miracle before all. Just like one would heal Buchaman, not a ‘lame man’ who only appears on that day in church unseen by all before. When he turned water into wine, it was at a public wedding, and waited until the wine they had was finished. He asked them to bring water, and the miracle was performed there before all. And they drunk the wine to verify. It was the same case for the fish and bread he multiplied. When Thomas doubted his resurrection, he castigated his lack of faith, but still let him place his finger on his wound to prove. He didn’t end at scolding him. That is why, not many of his detractors would accuse him of faking miracles. Instead, they could only accuse him of using other powers (Beelzebub). The miracles were obvious. He didn’t have to shout himself hoarse explaining them to doubters, or even curse those who challenged him. Even the last time he was challenged by a thief while on the cross (to save himself), he proved to the thief soon after. It is crooks (Pharisees and Sadducees) that respond with guilty anger instead of proof - where the intent is to simply silence those who question them.