On 10/11/06, David Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
There's another issue. 'Abdu'l-Baha refers to alleged miracles in the
Gospels, saying that receiving sight and hearing referred to a spiritual
awakening. If the writers used this to refer to a spiritual awakening as
'Abdu'l-Baha says then why don't the resurrection narratives have the
disciples going deaf and blind after Jesus died and then receiving sight and
hearing? Shouldn't there be some consistency? Also, why aren't there any
stories of the disciples being deaf and blind initially?
If you count Paul as a disciple the NT describes him being struck
blind and then healed although not in the exact way that you describe.
In terms of consistency, I don't think metaphors are necessarily about
consistency. If it were too consistent it would just be some kind of
code, not really a metaphor.
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