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00:00Music
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00:03Siblings,
00:28At the beginning of this course I invited you to make a dictionary for all the unusual words, such as pericopes, apax, and before continuing I recommend that you start reading the gospel that we will be studying, and thus review it in such a way that we can understand it much better.
00:49We can start with vertical reading, which is done from beginning to end, or horizontal reading, reading the parallels that are in front and their explanation at the bottom of the page.
01:02Reading the Gospel of Mark is quite a challenge for those of us who are used to the more elaborate narratives of Matthew and Luke.
01:12However, in order to understand Matthew and Luke, we need to delve into the gospel of Mark.
01:21Now, we are just a few steps away from immersing ourselves in the second gospel.
01:26But we cannot overlook the fact that there are two themes in this work that stand out above all the others.
01:34These topics are the miracles and exorcisms attributed to Jesus during his public ministry.
01:41Matthew and Luke are full of discursive material, as they present Jesus offering great teachings through his words and preaching.
01:53And most of the miracles they offer us are taken from Mark,
01:58narratives that both authors cut extensively because they did not align with their theology.
02:05That's why, if we want to get a better idea of Marcos,
02:12We must take a closer look at these two aspects that are fundamental in his gospel.
02:19They are like the guiding threads of this narrative.
02:23One of the aspects that leaves us with a certain flavor of legend, children's stories, tales of excessive piety, or fables,
02:32It is the insistence of the gospels on the miracles of Jesus.
02:37Today, it seems, Christians feel uncomfortable when they hear the Gospel accounts that tell of some miracle performed by Jesus.
02:46But this experience becomes more pressing when dealing with the subject of demons and the exorcisms that Jesus performed during his public ministry.
02:58But brothers, is it valid to believe in miracles?
03:01Do we have reasons or motives to believe in the teachings that present Jesus as a miracle worker?
03:09In other words, a man capable of performing marvelous or wondrous deeds that can only be attributed to God and no one else?
03:19Is accepting these teachings part of our Christian faith?
03:23This is something we need to briefly consider in this lesson.
03:29The first thing we need to do is give a definition of the term miracle.
03:35For this purpose, we will use the one proposed by Father John Paul Meyer in his work A Marginal Jew, which is recited as follows.
03:45A miracle is an amazing or extraordinary event that can be perceived by any attentive and impartial observer.
03:57which cannot be attributed to either human capabilities or known forces,
04:03through which God accomplishes something impossible for all human power.
04:08The author clarifies that this miracle can be perceived or noticed by any attentive and unprejudiced person.
04:21Furthermore, the miracle cannot be attributed to human capabilities or any known forces acting in our world.
04:30Today's Christian forgets that for the Bible there is nothing that can be identified with natural laws.
04:39but everything is under divine power and providence.
04:44It is God who has established and maintains the order of the universe.
04:48For the author of the book of wisdom, nature, called physis by the Greeks,
04:55It has the meaning of everything that exists because God created it and governs it with his wisdom and through his word.
05:05Finally, the author insists that the source or cause of this miracle is attributed solely and exclusively to God.
05:14However, this view, in which the miracle is attributed to God, occurs precisely within a religious environment or atmosphere.
05:25so that in the end, by accepting the miracle, what is being accepted or affirmed
05:32It means that God has acted clearly at a specific moment to accomplish something that no one else can do.
05:42This does not prevent God from performing this action through a person,
05:50as we are told by the prophets Elijah or Elisha or by Moses himself in the Old Testament,
05:58or as is stated about Jesus or some of his disciples in the New Testament.
06:03However, men today can accept the existence of marvelous or wondrous events,
06:12But they don't know how to rate them, or they simply ignore them.
06:19They can understand that there are events that cannot be explained, but they cannot attribute them to God.
06:26but to an inexplicable cause, and that is why they are not called miracles.
06:32Given these points, we must ask ourselves,
06:37Did God act directly in Jesus' ministry to bring about the miracles that the evangelists tell us about?
06:45It is prudent to clarify that, unlike what happens today,
06:52when few people believe or accept the miraculous fact,
06:56In ancient times, with the exception of a few educated people or philosophers,
07:01Most people believed in and accepted miracles as something that was part of their daily lives.
07:09As a result of studies in comparative religions,
07:14Much emphasis has been placed on the similarities between the narratives of the gospels
07:20that tell of the miracles performed by Jesus
07:23and those attributed to both Jewish and Gentile or pagan figures.
07:30It is true that we must take into account the similarities that occur in both cases.
07:36However, it very often happens that the differences that exist are not taken into account.
07:43among the characters who are compared to Jesus of Nazareth.
07:48But brothers, what are those differences or facts that haven't been considered?
07:55The documents used for these comparisons are later,
08:01sometimes even for several centuries to the canonical gospels.
08:06The miracles attributed to Jesus are based on his own power
08:12and those attributed to other people, for example, Jews,
08:17who are pious people whose prayers God hears.
08:23But they are not the ones who perform the miracle,
08:26but God who attentively attends to their prayer.
08:30The coincidence that occurs between the gospels and the parallel narratives
08:36It occurs in the miracle understood as a literary genre.
08:41The social sciences, such as cultural anthropology and sociology,
08:47They fail to distinguish the difference between the concept of a miracle and that of magic.
08:53For them, both miracles and magic are a sure way to achieve something desired.
09:00through the use of divine power, or in that case, superhuman power.
09:06The word magician has always had a negative connotation,
09:14even though there were some attempts to recall that this was the name given to Persian priests
09:21and that said title did not refer to the use of magic as understood by the Greeks.
09:28And finally, it is wise to recognize that there is a big difference between a miracle and magic.
09:36In fact, we can talk about the ideal concept of a miracle and the ideal concept of magic.
09:44Let's look at it next.
09:46Some of Jesus' miracles in the Gospels
09:50They can help us understand the context in which such events occur.
09:55A relationship of faith or trust is established between Jesus and the sick person or the person requesting assistance.
10:04The needy person approaches Jesus as a faithful or devotee
10:09and not as a customer who wants a paid service.
10:14Jesus can take the initiative motivated by compassion.
10:20Jesus speaks clearly and briefly in Aramaic,
10:23uttering a phrase that the public can understand.
10:28Sometimes, Jesus accompanies the miracle with a symbolic gesture without resorting to incantations.
10:36long lists of names or incomprehensible words.
10:41The miracle happens because Jesus decides it will.
10:45And not because someone can impose or demand that he perform the miracle.
10:49Miracles are signs of God's reign that is carried out with power.
10:56Jesus' miracles are not intended to cause evil or punishment, as might happen in cases of magic.
11:05The word faith that we use to talk about this relationship is above all a sign of trust
11:13or the abandonment of the afflicted or the sick to the mercy of God or to the compassion of Jesus.
11:21Therefore, if faith has not been a condition for the miracle to happen,
11:27In the end, the result of the miracle will be great faith.
11:30With a few exceptions, such as the woman with a flow of blood who touched the hem of Jesus' garment
11:39And that thus he obtains his healing, a face-to-face relationship between Jesus and the one who asks for his help is always evident.
11:50Their power is not an impersonal force that can be used at the whim of the client.
11:56Nor do we see Jesus resorting to lengthy rituals, incantations, or invocations to a higher being.
12:03or the use of secret names to get what He wants to offer.
12:09On the contrary, brothers, magic is the manipulation of supernatural forces.
12:15or the imposition on a deity to obtain a benefit.
12:20The benefits sought are very modest and can be achieved by human effort.
12:28Someone's love, a job, etc.
12:33Each request is an isolated case.
12:36There is no salvation story into which these actions fit.
12:41There is no relationship or bond between the magician and his clients.
12:46In magic spells, meaningless words and syllables are multiplied,
12:54as well as the names of multiple deities.
12:58Magic is shrouded in an atmosphere of secrecy,
13:03In other words, it's a secret to everyone except the magician.
13:08And with magic, one can also seek and request harm to someone.
13:13Brothers, we must be very clear that Jesus is not a magician.
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