Jiang explicitly rejects the reading that Dante's evidence here is merely that biblical miracles like the Red Sea literally happened.
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Miracles
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Jiang glosses Paul's version of faith as trust in a divine plan and miracles that cannot be seen directly, a posture of trusting the heart rather than the eyes.
Paul introduces miracles as a way to explain contradictions and inconsistencies in the Biblical story.
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"so, again, what's happening is that Peter continues to interrogate and said, how do you know for a fact that the Bible is the..."
"The Bible. But how do you know the Bible is the work of God?"
"He's basically saying all these physical things like parting the Red Sea and stuff actually happened. No, that's not what he's saying."
"...what faith is there is a plan there is a god miracles do happen you don't see these things but they do happen that's..."
"...something that you must believe right he introduces the idea of miracles now if something can't be can't be explained it's because it's a..."
"...idea that didn't really didn't exist before and the use of miracles is to explain the contradictions or the inconsistencies in the story of..."
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