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by GILES

AS NEARLY everything Britons do is an offence, I have always thought that the one way to keep out of troublo was to stand still.

"Peoplo always think that," sald a magistrate recently. "But the law states that you have only the right to walk up and down, not to stand there."

So now you know,

Countries outalde tho Western alliance hare promised not to use this fascinating piece of tradition for propaganda purposes in a flm called "There'll always be ELT England."

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ARE THE GOSPEL REALLY TRUE?

PART THREE

A 1959 look at the Miracles

Did Christ really perform

to

the miracles attributed to him? In his third despatch, Geoffrey Ashe--who was assigned assoss the Gospels in the, light of modern knowledge-examines that question and asks: Could they

have

been

possibly

invanted?

ON the green Jordan, where it flowed among trees out of the Sea of Galilee, Israeli patrol boats were moored, They swung with the stream a few minutes' walk away from barbed wire and Arabs.

Khaki - clad youths and Firls uf the Army Istuch bustled to and fro shifting equipment.

As I drove

past, with the

by

GEOFFREY ASHE

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The Sea of Galilee self, an shared the car, the obvicus enchanted blue-green puddle comment would Inve been: 'deep down in a warm hollow of

In "What a grim sight the hills, looked very much as it the Prince of must have looked 2,000 years

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Peace."

I did not make It. The sight was grim, perhaps, but appropriate.

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the lost to West's queen and West For it means that during the is something else.

Temptation, and they are cashed the trump are while East

which Jesus year of the Galilean ministry, Jesus talked in Aramaic, a exactly the ones

signollod with the SCVETI of hearts. he was under close observation. form of Hebrew. But the Gos- refuses to perform.

HL witnesses would have pels are in Greek. Not very

"Turn these stones to bread"

Now West played the king of lived close together,

"Leap down from the diamonds and ece med Len scholar ago a лого than Wo do today, Burney had the notion of trying Temple "Make yourself hearis, South did not cover In watched narrowly and listen to translate the speeches back king"... These are marvels of dummy but East played the king carefully and compared into the original Aramale. the cheap magical typo—and anyway and cashed the tan, of

He made a sariling discovery. Satan is made to propose them, clubs. Nearly all the Galileona who These talks delivered to simple The ones actually performed. were alive then were still alive audiences always,

remember, the miracles the next year when St Peter with that eore

of logul people mercy, are quite different and tricks and East led a fourit che This play established West's The restaurant. with its and the other Apostles began to who know Jesus well-turned In fact, it almost sums up the nine of trumps as another trick cartoon-style murals, was cer~'

preach. Many were still alive out to have

and since if South trumped high A clear rhythm, contrast between Jesus tainly modern. But when our when St Paul wrote his letters. You could sing them. In places other wonder-workers to remark West would

discard. simply walter brought in the meal on a Some were still alive when the they even rhymed.

that he does not, vanidhi when Souths hnd pald 1,100 points for For New Testament Palestine huge tray, I recognised fish of Copels took shape. And there The central figure the the Romans arrest him,

the luxury of an overcall *** was far from peaceful. It was the species that Peter and bis is no sign that a single one of Gaspels is not only

Would A writer inventing tense, a country of hate

partners went out to catch them came forward to accuse teacher and storyteller, he is miracles have invented miracles danger, where foreign troops large, tasty, rother bony kind the Christians of distorting alsa that still forer thing, a Do different from everyone committed atrocities, patriots of lake carp, assaulted collaberators, Incidents Most of the events, of the provoked riots.

Gospels happen In.a few small Sitting down to lunch at areas: The Galilee shore is one Tiberias, I wondered - what had at these areas and, unless you really changed, and how far see it, you are not likely to the scenery and atmosphere of realise how small it 1s. the Gospels could be recaptured.

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Would four writers great popular poet and ballad- else's?

have done so at the same time? Could anyone have invented One last question. Many of the him? Could four writers have. Layings of Jesus are cryptic and invented him at the same time? awe-inspiring. The argument in the Gospels

Because that is what it. His words, let us face it, favour is a strong one, because amounts to. Matthew, Mark, often sound like the words of a Capernaum, with its ruined it is based on common senie Luke, and John copy from dacit -madman. He says he will be

human ynagogue patiently Jigsawed and

nature. But other and from carlier texts, but the Judge of Mankind. He says together by the Franciscans, obviously it isn't enough it itself. each makes his own mejor con- the way to God is through him

When it comes to the por- tribution-and they all"tally, Alone. Is now unly a tree-lined field

He claims to be sloping down to the beach.

trayal of Jexits himself, I see Next, take the miracles. To than mortal: "Before Abraham A few hundred yards away no point in discussing these say (an some day that these was, I am." is a low, grasay, gentle hill with arguments. Instead, I am going were "gradually added on after- But he is not mad. In that a domed chapel on top. This is to throw out a challenge.

wards, is to go clean against tiny patch of lake-shore where

evidence. Nearly "Say what you like. Say that the

Inhabitants many of the the scene of the Sermon on the

and Mount. Close by is a church the Gospels are complete fiction scholars today agree that Mark, know him, the peasants built over some superb Toman from start to finish, Or that the Gospel with

as wise, mos fishermen regard him

Women mosaics, and this is the place the real Jesus" LINES a kindly miracles, is the earliest of the shrewd, sympathetic.

trust their children with him. of tho miracle of the loaves and lecturer with a simple message, four. fshes.

Somehow the Incredible mix= | ture' makes senge.

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But in any case, do they look him inta a fantastic. divino as if they were added? Saviour. Or that lic was faith-healer, and the seTTRONIE and Parables have been added

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These traditionally accepted to make him more interesting.

If the Gospels are Bollon. then we have to picture four unoquialied imaginativa geniuses sprtaging up gether in the same area willa- in a fow years of each other.

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altes may not be exactly right, Or that he was a mad fanatic, Turn again if you like to that but nothing can affect the main and the Gospels are meant to pile of data abour Middle point.

make him more respectable,

Eastern religions which rescrocch last unearthed in the

When you turn away from The Gospela Galileon chap "It doesn't matter which the has

Tiberias towards Haifa, you do ters are not about a wandering point is that you say the story hundred years.

not exactly leave the water Al Tight! But· misalonary, plodding hundreds was invented.

Of course, you will

And behind. You leave it below, of mites through a wast subcon- how?"

and One moment it is there, allm: Consider the teaching, for miracles invented right tinent.

They are about somebody instance, as we find it in such left They were expected of mering greenish-blue at thei

leaders. But

not bottom of ita natural bowl. The strolling through a town which passages as the Bermos on the religious

miracles of this kind,

next moment" you, aro-crossing wo should call a village, talking Mount.

The

diferent Perhaps it proves nothing to

ingles outside the rocky uplands in a io noquaintances on the village

Legendary cilmate, and the Sea of Galilee green, making tile toure on analyse the teaching itself. A Gospels are stunts.

mako sinuos has gone. foot but moldom far, going out whole science of Comparative Jewlah rabbis

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The men who. leg the people of that entloted Cch as the Golden Rule have emperor. Apailesius land that he had brought them been traced in India' and China, when the Romans arrest him.

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