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<\/a><\/div>\nI remember as an Anglican priest being astonished to discover that the story of Jesus walking on the water had been omitted from the Sunday lectionary. The CofE may have put it back in the meantime, but I learned that it was omitted because the story was simply too incredible for modern people to believe. (By the way, the distortion of the faith through the distortion of liturgy within the Anglican Church is a topic that has been much ignored\u2026when I was an Anglican they were doing all sorts of weird things to promote their modernist agenda within and through the manipulation of the lectionary, the prayer book, \u2018alternative liturgies\u2019, \u00a0the lists of saints etc. but that\u2019s another topic altogether\u2026)<\/span>
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What has always amused me about this blatant historicism is the idea that first century people really had no problem believing the story, or for that matter, for the first nineteen centuries of the church people were so dumb that they thought walking on the water was pretty easy to believe, but suddenly now in the twenty and twenty first centuries we modern people know so much more that we know such things don\u2019t happen.<\/span>
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The other thing that is extremely dumb about the modernists is that the story of Jesus walking on the water comes in Matthew\u2019s gospel right after the feeding of the 5,000. So they take the feeding of the 5,000 and downgrade it by saying \u201cisn\u2019t it wonderful that the example of the little boy sharing his lunch prompted everyone else to share theirs too!\u201d But they can\u2019t really find any way of explaining away the miracle of Jesus walking on the water so they just cut it out altogether. \u201cWe now know that such a thing could never have happened, and it will make it so difficult for non-Christians to accept the faith, so perhaps it would be best if we were to simply leave it out of the lectionary\u2013the way we did with that psalm that talks about bashing babies heads against the rocks\u2026\u201d<\/span>
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Furthermore, the modernists love to \u2018de-mythologize\u2019 the miracle stories and try to suck out the theological truth but leave the historical aspect on one side as something \u2018unbelievable to modern people\u2019. I am all for pulling out the theological aspect of the gospel stories, but even that aspect of the story of Jesus walking on the water is ignored by the modernists. Why, do you think, when one of their hobbies is pulling out the theological meaning, do they ignore the theological meaning of Jesus walking on the water?<\/span>
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Here\u2019s why: because Jesus walking in the water is a direct fulfillment of Old Testament prophecies that reveal Jesus to be the Son of God. Consider Psalm 77:<\/span>
<\/span><\/p>\nI will consider all your works<\/span>
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and meditate on all your mighty deeds.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n\u00a013<\/sup>\u00a0Your ways, God, are holy.<\/span>
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0What god is as great as our God?<\/span>
14<\/sup>\u00a0You are the God who performs miracles;<\/span>
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0you display your power among the peoples.<\/span>
15<\/sup>\u00a0With your mighty arm you redeemed your people,<\/span>
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the descendants of Jacob and Joseph.<\/span><\/div>\n\u00a016<\/sup>\u00a0The waters saw you, God,<\/span>
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the waters saw you and writhed;<\/span>
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the very depths were convulsed.<\/span>
17<\/sup>\u00a0The clouds poured down water,<\/span>
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the heavens resounded with thunder;<\/span>
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0your arrows flashed back and forth.<\/span>
18<\/sup>\u00a0Your thunder was heard in the whirlwind,<\/span>
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0your lightning lit up the world;<\/span>
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the earth trembled and quaked.<\/span>
19<\/sup>\u00a0Your path led through the sea,<\/span>
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0your way through the mighty waters,<\/span>
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0though your footprints were not seen.<\/span><\/div>\n
<\/span><\/div>\nOr consider Isaiah 43<\/span>
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\u00a0<\/span>I am the LORD, your Holy One,<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>
<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Israel\u2019s Creator, your King.\u201d<\/span><\/span>\n\u00a016<\/sup>\u00a0This is what the LORD says\u2014<\/span>
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0he who made a way through the sea,<\/span>
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0a path through the mighty waters,<\/span>
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In the Old Testament the Lord God Creator was the one who had mastery over the chaos of the deep. In the creation story he separated the waters above and the waters below. He commanded the flood through which Noah was saved, he opened the waters of the Red Sea to bring the children out of slavery into the promised land. These Old Testament passages from Isaiah and the Psalms reveal the Lord to be the Master of creation, and Christ through both the miracle of the Feeding of the 5,000 and walking on the water reveals himself to be the Creator God.<\/span>
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That this is so is unlocked in the final words of the story: \u201cThose who were in the boat said, \u2018Truly you are the Son of God.'\u201d Suddenly the whole thing is very clear\u2013the stories of Jesus feeding the 5,000 and walking on the water are put together by Matthew in the same chapter for a reason. The reason is to attest to the true identity of our Lord as the Son of God.<\/span>
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The disciples saw the miracles and believed that he was the Son of God. If you reject the miracles can you still accept that Jesus is the Son of God? I don\u2019t think so. I think we are to accept the smaller miracles in order to be directed to the great miracle which is the Incarnation of the Son of God of the Blessed Virgin Mary.<\/span>
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This shows us the ultimate heresy of the modernists. We thought it was just a dumb and cowardly thing to explain away the miracles. We might have been inclined to excuse it because they were weak in the faith and perhaps a bit embarrassed in front of their intellectual colleagues. But it\u2019s more important than that. In denying the miracles of Christ, they also deny the great miracle, and it is no co-incidence that the same modernist theologians and Bible scholars who deny the miracle of the feeding of the 5000 and seek to eliminate the miracle of Christ walking on the water also go on to deny his divinity.<\/span>
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When is the rest of the Christian church going to wake up and realize that these scholars are not just finding miracles a bit hard to believe\u2013they are actually denying the essential truths of the Christian faith.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I remember as an Anglican priest being astonished to discover that the story of Jesus walking on the water had been omitted from the Sunday lectionary. The CofE may have put it back in the meantime, but I learned that it was omitted because the story was simply too incredible for modern people to believe. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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