New Testament 250

New Testament 250 September 2, 2015

 

Aivazovksky painting of Jesus walking on Galilee
“Jesus Walks on Water”
Ivan Aivazovsky, 1888
(Click to enlarge, twice to enlarge further.)
This episode would have been pretty unambiguous, true. But how many saw it?

 

John 10:19-21

 

Some appear to imagine that, while religious questions today are ambiguous and while contemporary religious claims are disputable and usually disputed, matters would have been much clearer had they only lived back in the days of Jesus.

 

Passages such as this one prove that, on the whole, the imagined clarity didn’t exist then, either.

 

In this life, absent divine grace, we mostly see through a glass, darkly.

 

That’s pretty plainly the way it’s supposed to be.

 

 


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