Liberating the Gospels
Reading the Bible with Jewish Eyes
Chapter OneThe Crisis in Faith TodayFinding a New Question
and a New Starting Place
Did it really happen?
That is the question that people through the ages have always asked about the beginnings of their religious traditions. Certainly that has been the question asked of the gospel tradition of Christianity. Did it really happen? Did a virgin actually conceive? Did the heavens really open at the time of Jesus' baptism? Did Jesus walk on water or feed the multitude with five loaves? Did he literally restore sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf, and even more dramatically, life to the deceased? Did his resuscitated body walk physically out of the tomb at the dawn of Easter some thirty-six to seventy-two hours after his public execution? Did he rise from this earth and ascend into a heaven located just beyond the sky?
Traditionally, the only answers that these questions could possibly elicit were either yes or no. "Yes" was the answer of the beli ... read full excerpt from Liberating the Gospels: Reading the Bible with Jewish Eyes ebook
