It seems of little consequence of us today, but one of the big boons for the Christian movement was the idea that Jesus correctly predicted
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the destruction of the Second Temple (see Mark 13).
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which happened roughly 40 years after he was crucified, and accelerated the divergence between Judaism and Christianity
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But idea of "proof" permeates the entire text bc JC is seemingly making outstanding claims ("I am the Messiah") that have been made before
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Miracles are offered as proof, the Resurrection itself is said to be the ultimate proof.
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And even that has an interesting anecdote where Thomas (see John 20) wants to literally inspect the wounds of the Resurrected JC.
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This habit continues on: which is why one of the ways to identify true apostles is via them having gifts of the spirit
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It's eyeronic because these days both "sides" of the religion debate falsely cling to the faith/reason dichotomy
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Religious people say God didn't want to give people too much proof ("that's why it's *faith*") but that's not how NT is structured at all
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Replying to @LokiJulianus
But it is def structured around an *economy* of proof: minimum proof offered for max effect (point of Thomas exchange)
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And while faith def latches on to our natural epistemix, you can't have full content of rev. thru reason, nor acquire strong faith w/o grace
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