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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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Miracle
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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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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"...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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"...reason why is, ask yourself this question. Is it a greater miracle that a God could come to earth and die for our sins?..."
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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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