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Originally Posted by nekokami
I'm with the tree guy on this one. I can overlook the bit with the swine. Nobody's perfect.  |
Especially when you consider that the Jewish men who wrote the gospels were writing about things they heard happened (none of the gospels having been written contemporaneously), not things they witnessed personally.
So, the whole swine episode might not have happened exactly as written, even assuming that Jesus was able to cure an insane man. I am convinced that there is (as there should be) a Jewish cultural bent to much of the New Testament.
But, had I been there and had a word with Jesus beforehand, I would have suggested that he cast the demon(s) into a whirlwind and then to dissipate it into the upper atmosphere. It would have had just the right touch of theatricality ... but nobody gets hurt.