{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Woke up to an interesting thought today - Jesus' miracles in the New Testament mirror Old Testament miracles, but with an...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/139194779188/", "html": "Woke up to an interesting thought today - Jesus&rsquo; miracles in the New Testament mirror Old Testament miracles, but with an important distinction: where the OT ones were acts of creation <em>ex nihilo</em>, the NT ones were acts of <em>transmutation</em>.<p>\nLike, to feed a crowd God made manna; Jesus made fish and loaves\u2026 out of fewer fish and loaves. God made water spring from a rock, Jesus made casks of wine out of casks of water. I suppose God used dust and a rib to make the living Adam and Eve, but that&rsquo;s still more raw creation than the NT parallel of making the living Lazarus out of the corpse of Lazarus.\n</p><p>\nAnd that does make a sort of sense, that God bound to a specific physical form would have powers bound accordingly. And it&rsquo;s not like existing Christianity totally misses the transmutation thing - thematically, there&rsquo;s the God made the world//Christ made it the world redeemed thing, but more than that, the Eucharist! Transubstantiation! (No, not &ldquo;tea substantiation&rdquo;, iPhone, wtf.) The central priestly ritual as not a blessing cast on the worshippers but an act of transmutation!\n</p><p>\nNow I wonder how that schema could account for the empowered artifacts - the Shroud, the Grail, the Spear. </p>"}