Biblical Miracles

Only Jesus was resurrected from the dead. The others were technically only resuscitated because they all, eventually, did die again, not Jesus.

hahahahaHA.. WHAT??? oh brother...

The language you are using suggests there is an established fact that I don't want to acknowledge. That's not the case. I've merely pointed to scholarly questions raised about the historicity of the Jesus character while also, often, intimating that my personal belief is that Jesus was a real person. That's irrelevant, though.

Real person or not that doesn't make the Bible true. Obviously he never resurrected anyone. Also obvious, or it should be, is that when someone refers to Biblical stories involving Jesus they are referring to.... Biblical stories. Nobody denies the existence of the Bible. That actually IS an established fact. When adults talk about Biblical miracles they are discussing what is described as taking place in the Bible, not what actually occurred in history. It's like I asked a child how many bowls of porridge Goldilocks found and you come along and say HEEY! I thought you said the three bears weren't REAL!

Also, asking a question is not the same thing as debating. I have a feeling if I ever heard you read my comments out loud in the voice you've picked out for me in your head it would be so far removed from reality as to be hilarious.

That is true

It's so rare that people talk about a historical Jesus that I think the default assumption is that we are referring to the literary character. When I say "it's true Luke Skywalker kissed his sister on multiple occasions," nobody expects me to follow that up with, "it is portrayed on screen. Whether that's actually true..."

There was a kiss on the cheek as they were about to swing through that shaft on the Death Star in A New Hope. There was a 2nd kiss on the cheek on Yavin IV as he was about to leave to attack the Death Star. There was a full on smooch on the lips at the beginning of Empire Strikes Back on Hoth which might have been trying to make Han jealous. There was another kiss on the lips as Luke was lying weak in bed after being saved from Bespin at the end of Empire. See them all here. Now... as to whether or not this really happened... don't want to disrespect anyone's beliefs by saying one way or the other.

They also very nearly kiss in a deleted scene from Empire but are interrupted by the droids. Doesn't actually happen, but it's the only time they both lean in for it as opposed to Leia planting one on Luke as a friend or to get at Han. Of course it was left out of the canon and only survives as part of the apocrypha...

heretic!

@JenkinsEar and himself too

George Bernard Shaw might have accepted it. Of course, he was a crank when it came to orthography.

Spelled can be correct spelt spelt though.

It's really the fastest way to get there.

I've met people who became Scientologists after reading Dianetics. My point was self-evident. What's yours?

Worked for me.

So, you don't know what the phrase means, either, then? Well, okay. To quote Ron Jeremy, then, "when in Rome..."

oops. Ron Burgundy. I'm not sure what Ron Jeremy has to say on the subject.

Sure, and to the pursuing Egyptians, the parting of the Red Sea wasn't a miracle. To anyone not part of Noah's immediate family, the flood wasn't a miracle. The people of Jericho probably didn't think too highly of their walls coming down, and I'm sure that army wasn't real keen on being wiped out by one guy with a jawbone. One person's miracle can be another person's curse.

The OED second edition says:

A marvellous event occurring within human experience, which cannot have been brought about by human power or by the operation of any natural agency, and must therefore be ascribed to the special intervention of the Deity or of some supernatural being

So also not necessarily "good".

Maybe he just really liked salt...