when we read a myth or legend, we instinctively understand that we are in
the world of fable...
We switch gears when we read it; in the words of the poet Coleridge, "we
suspend disbelief." But the Gospels are set in a real world of needs:
wine running out at a wedding; hungry crowds with not enough food;
fruitless fishing trips; and no money for the tax bill. Into this world
quietly breaks the miraculous, which seems as ordinary as the hassles. In
myth, extraordinary people in an extraordinary world do extraordinary
things. In the Gospels, the extraordinary love and compassion of a
remarkable Man radiates and illuminates an ordinary world.
-Paul E. Miller, "Who Is Jesus?," Love Walked Among Us, 19.
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