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Why did Luke write about Jesus' miracles? What did Luke want to show Christians? Why?
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Question B Luke must have thought Jesus' miracles were important otherwise why would he have written about them? There are many answers to this question and many questions leading off it. Why did Luke write about Jesus' miracles? What did Luke want to show Christians? Why? Well if you take the fundamentalist view you see that each miracle has a hidden meaning perhaps not the fact that the miracles actually happened. Perhaps Jesus believed that he could tell the Jews that these people were paralysed, hurt or injured and then makes them see that faith counts in healing. All of Jesus' miracles have separate meanings in them. Whether or not you believe in miracles there is some sort of importance in them. The Christian church believes that all religions report numerous and equally credible miracles. Hume compares deciding amongst religions on the basis of their miracles to the task of a...
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