Stigmata

[HeyLeroy]

Ain't it funny how many of the Amazon reviewers seem to have come to a completely different conclusion on the findings of the book..? I wonder how they managed that.
It's almost as if they read it and selected the bits they wanted to believe and disregarded anything they didn't like, but nobody would do that, would they?

Yeah, *IF* this is the book I read (mine's in storage right now, can't get to it to confirm) those reviews toward the bottom more accurately reflect it. If you read the first two reviews you might believe that the book actually leaves an impression that the writer was somehow mystified over the phenomenon. Nuh-uh.

He makes a good case for a natural explanation. Now I gotta go dig up my book to see if this is it!

 

[LawnOven]

It also annoys me that all these stigmatas (stigmati?) have the hole in the center of the hand.

If anyone was crucified like that they would have fallen off the cross as the nail ripped through their hand.

If you want to emulate Christ, put that compass end in your wrist.

Jesus's hands were infused with the power of God, therefore they could defy the laws of physics.

Can't logically argue out, what wasn't logically argued in.

 

[HeyLeroy]

I wonder if His Hands whistled when the wind blew?

 

[epepke]

Stigmata, doesn't anybody clue in to the fact that only Catholics have these markings? You never see a Baptist with them...

Actually, I saw a teevee program, and part of it talked about a Baptist who exhibited stigmata.

 

[Marc L]

Stigmata, doesn't anybody clue in to the fact that only Catholics have these markings? You never see a Baptist with them...

It has to do with the focus of the denomination. Catholics focus on the death of Jesus, while most Protestant groups focus on the resurrection and the gifts of the Holy Spirit. This is why not too many Catholics speak in tongues.

Marc

 

[CACTUSJACKmankin]

Has anyone seen the National Geograghic Channel show Is It Real? They did a show on stigmata where a pair of scientists demonstrated several ways of inducing stigmata. One way involved chemical burns while another involved a razor bent in such a way that caused minimal pain and when scraped across the palm caused the blood to arrive so slowly that it appeared to come from nowhere. Stigmata is such an easy thing to fake on top of the fact that people have been caught in the act of fraud, thus the most reasonable conclusion is that a vast majority of stigmatics are self-induced wounds. Maybe 0.001% can be explained through the psychosomatic effect or other purely psycho-physical explanation.