The portrait the Gospels paint is that of a lifeguard who leaps into the surf, swims to the
drowning girl, and then, instead of doing a cross-chest carry, drowns with her, revives three days later, and walks off the beach with assurances that everything, including the apparently still-dead girl, is hunky-dory. You do not like that? Neither do I. But I submit that it is - unless we are prepared to ignore both the Gospels and the ensuing two thousand years' worth of tombstones with bodies still under them - very much like what the Man actually said and did. And - to come to the main point at
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