Refutation of the Divinity of Christ — Page 28
28 wonders, and miracles, how can Christ indisputably be deemed God on the basis of miracles and all these spectacles? Listen carefully— respected priests of Christianity! In the idiom of the Gospels, there is no miracle of Christ that stands proven from the Gospels since of all miracles, Christ’s foremost miracle is the raising of the dead to life. If we examine the raising of the dead to life in the idiom of the Gospels with due care and consideration, it does not appear to be anything extraordinary in the least. This is so because in Luke 10:27–28 it is stated: Love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself and then thou shalt live. In Luke 15:23–24 is mentioned the account of a man whose son had separated from him and had gone far away. When the son returned repentant, the father made merry and said that he [the son] had died and had now been restored to life—meaning that he had gotten lost and had now been found. In the Epistle to the Romans 6:10, it is stated: For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. In 1 Corinthians 15:31, Paul says I die every day. In John 8:52 and 6:47, it is written that if a man keep my saying, he shall never taste of death. In Luke 4:4 it is written: That man shall not live by bread but by the word of God. It is very clear from this list of high- lighted verses that being dead in the idiom of the Gospels con- notes being sinful or separated, so isn’t it possible for us to con- clude that those to whom Christ gave life, he had made virtuous