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Jiang says the deeper miracle is Mary giving birth, not merely Jesus's later sacrifice, and stresses that Virgil is somehow already voicing this paradise truth.
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Miracle
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The quoted Dante passage makes the conversion of the world to Christianity, despite poverty and weakness at the beginning, the decisive miracle supporting faith.
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Jiang says the existence of roughly two billion Christians is itself a miracle because Christianity is conceptually confusing enough that its global success is difficult to explain on ordinary grounds.
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Jiang explains reported miracle healing through placebo effect: belief and perception shape bodily reality, so faith can produce real effects without proving Church authority.
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Christianity is framed as unusually question-heavy because it joins exclusive salvation, missionary pressure, divine sonship, sacrifice for sin, second coming, and miracle as its explanatory stopgap.
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Jiang argues that Dante restructures Christian theology by placing Mary, not Jesus, at the center, because a mortal woman giving birth to God becomes the deeper miracle.
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"what's the substance love right who said um the trinity is three persons and they all have the same substance who said that dante..."
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"...paradise right it is mary giving birth that is the true miracle not jesus sacrificing himself this is all coming from the mouth of..."
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"...revealing truth to me relies on acts that happened. For such miracles, nature can heat, no iron beat no anvil. Say, who assures you..."
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"The fact that the whole world has turned to Christianity. Exactly."
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"...idea what was going on. Okay? So, to me, it's a miracle that this very confusing religion is able to conquer the world, where..."
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"Right? I could understand if you, if there was a religion about Julius Caesar, or Genghis Khan, or Alexander the Great, these, or Napoleon,..."
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"...like, later the cancer just disappears. And they said it is miracle by the Catholic Church and they all believe in the Catholic Church...."
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"Okay. Yeah. Okay, back to your question. Okay. So this is what we call the placebo effect. Okay? The placebo effect is basically you..."
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"Today we discuss the most famous person who has ever lived. There are about 2 billion people in the world today who believe that..."
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"But these are the major ideas that most Christians agree on. First thing is that Jesus is God. He is the son of God..."
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"...in Christianity. And that's why Christianity also proposes the idea of miracles, okay?"
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"...sins? Why is there such a thing coming? It's all a miracle, okay? Meaning don't question it, just believe in it, all right? So..."
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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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The late cantos become Jiang's sharpest Dante claim so far: faith is not obedience but imagination that helps make truth real, hope is the arrogant wager that exile and persecution can still bear fruit,...
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Rome fails to build a bureaucracy, Byzantium survives behind walls, and Western Europe is ruled by a stranger empire: a church that claims the sky, the soul, and the right to make impossible doctrine...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Jesus lecture: Christianity begins as a pile of impossible doctrines, the historical Jesus is thinner and stranger, the Gospel of Thomas makes him a poet-prophet of the divine spark,...
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