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There is a lot of truth in Albert Schweitzer’s observation in his book The Quest of the Historical Jesus (German original 1906), that scholars of every generation since the Enlightenment have portrayed Jesus “in their own image.”
Thus Enlightenment-era “rationalists” who realized we do not need supernatural interventions to explain what happens in our world — from lightening strikes and earthquakes to the healing of physical ailments or mental illnesses — explained the amazing records of Jesus’ “miracles” as misunderstood natural events.
And hopeful, positive, progressive liberals who thought Jesus,
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