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Originally Posted by MissBrattified
Heal or resurrect? We know that Jesus healed others....so the "impossibility...because Jesus isn't fully God" would have to apply to more than just Lazarus.
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Both. He doesn't credit Jesus for raising Lazarus, but God, who worked through Jesus....he implied that it wasn't much different than God working through any of us.
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John 12:1 "Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead."
I think people forget sometimes that Jesus was sharp-witted, and often spoke in riddles, with sarcasm, or was rather patronizing to those who questioned Him or doubted Him. Not every scriptural quote of His words can be taken literally.
In the story of the ruler's daughter, the men state that she is dead and the he (the ruler) shouldn't "bother the Master", but when Jesus arrived, He told the mourners that she was only asleep. They laughed, but He raised her up anyway. Now, are we to conclude that she wasn't really dead to begin with? And that He went all the way to the house to rouse her out of a nice nap? Or was He chiding these people to quit doubting Him, because as far as her state was relative to HIS power, she was only sleeping?
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I agree. Read my sig line....it's his exact quotes in regard to Jesus being God. Weird...I've never heard anyone consider Jesus to be a God Jr. of sorts...
But I like the way you put your last paragraph concerning the words of Jesus, and I agree. He even said that Lazarus was sleeping too, then had to plainly tell Mary (or Martha, can't remember now) that he was dead when they insisted he was.