How should I take the miracle accounts?
I can't take them at face value. Does that disqualify me?
I can't take them at face value. Does that disqualify me?
Knowing the situation of the community it was written for makes this much clearer.
同じ疑問を持つ人は多く、私も長いあいだ答えを持てませんでした。
Tracing how the early church handled it locates the modern debate quite usefully. I'm a minister and my honest answer to this is that I don't know. Practically: check the immediate context first, then compare the parallel passages.
短く答えるなら「両方正しい」となります。長く答えると一冊の本になります。参考文献を挙げておくので、興味があれば当たってみてください。急いで結論を出さず、しばらく問いを抱えたままにしておく手もあります。
私は牧師ですが、この問いには「分かりません」と答えることにしています。原語を確認すると、日本語訳よりも意味の幅が広いことが分かります。
This may be a minority reading, but here is how I take it. The short answer is that scripture itself does not settle this; several readings coexist.
Knowing the situation of the community it was written for makes this much clearer. The original language has a wider range of meaning than the English suggests.
教義的な答えより先に、まず自分の言葉で読んでみることをおすすめします。正直に言えば、この問いに明快な答えを出すのは難しいと思っています。質問の前提そのものを一度疑ってみると、別の道が開けるかもしれません。