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fish.</b></span></span><br><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">An
 awful lot of contemporary theologians and Bible commentators have tried
 to explain away the miracles of Jesus as spiritual symbols. Perhaps 
most notoriously, many preachers tried to explain the multiplication of 
the loaves and fishes as a "miracle" of charity, with everyone sharing 
the little that he had.</span><br><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">But
 I think it’s hard to deny that <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>the first Christians were intensely 
interested in the miracles of Jesus, </b></span>and that they didn’t see them as 
mere literary symbols! <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>They saw them for what they really were: actions 
of God, breaking into <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">our world</span>.</b></span></span></b></span></b></b></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div></div>

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