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Jesus's motives for performing miracles.

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10-22-2006 11:18 AM 		Reply to: Message 41 by Hyroglyphx
10-22-2006 10:57 AM

Re: Motivations
If you'll notice from scripture, many, if not most of Jesus' mircales only occured when the people had faith that he could do it.
This is known as the placebo effect.
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