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"What is important to note in this chapter is that the assumption that suprahuman activity is impossible is an interpretive grid, not a demonstrated fact. Contrary to what appeared to be the case to many intellectuals one or two centuries ago, history does not support a linear evolution of all cultures toward this perspective."

"People with an attenuated sense of what is possible will bring that conviction to the Bible and diminish it by the poverty of their own experience. —Walter Wink"

"The sorts of healings through particular human agents such as we observe in the Gospels and Acts, however, are much less commonly attested in this period, and when they do occur usually they reflect a much longer period of transmission than what we find in the Gospels and Acts."

"Our earthly life has its temporal framework, and so we can get through it. We could not bear it for eternity. But what then? We do not want death, and life as we know it we do not want forever. Is man a contradiction himself, a mistake of nature?"