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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: determined that the part of the dying god in this annual play
should be thrust upon Jesus of Nazareth, whom the enemies he had
made in high places by his outspoken strictures were resolved to
put out of the way." See also vol. iv, "The Dying God," in the
same book.
There are many other difficulties. The raising of Lazarus,
already dead three days, the turning of water into wine
(a miracle attributed to Bacchus, of old), the feeding of
the five thousand, and others of the marvels are, to say
the least, not easy of digestion. The "Sermon on the
Mount" which, with the "Lord's Prayer" embedded in
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