After centuries of laboring to understand stories that made no sense to us, we now discover that the problem was that we did not know how to read those stories. With this insight, our ability to chart a new reformation has passed another huge obstacle! Now we know why miracles were not attached to the life of Jesus until the eighth decade. The miracles were interpretive signs. The writers of the miracle accounts saw Jesus as the messiah from whom miracles were expected. That understanding makes sense and it solves the biggest problem in contemporary Christianity. Isaiah predicted it. The
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