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[–] PeaceSeeker 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Your idea that Christ won't perform miracles in Nazareth is fucking ridiculous. It doesn't matter how skeptical you are. You start raising bodies from the dead, and people are going to take you seriously.

It's explicitly mentioned in the Bible in order to emphasize the importance of faith.

53 When Jesus had finished these parables, he moved on from there. 54 Coming to his hometown, he began teaching the people in their synagogue, and they were amazed. “Where did this man get this wisdom and these miraculous powers?” they asked. 55 “Isn’t this the carpenter’s son? Isn’t his mother’s name Mary, and aren’t his brothers James, Joseph, Simon and Judas? 56 Aren’t all his sisters with us? Where then did this man get all these things?” 57 And they took offense at him.

But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his own town and in his own home.”

58 And he did not do many miracles there because of their lack of faith. (Matthew 13:53-58)

It's not cartoonish like Jesus flying around and teleporting.

You're (if I may say so) overly analytic mind deprives you of the ability to appreciate the essence of man's nature, which is corporeal as well as spiritual, thus justifying the existence of what might seem to you merely cartoonish simply because they are so blatantly corporeal / visible. There are very good reasons that this physical manifestation and visible miracles should play a part in the whole story.

God didn't send His son to do miracles for the angels, or become Incarnate so He could sacrifice His body for the angels, because the angels lack bodies and senses of that sort to begin with. They are pure intellects. Plus, because of an angel's nature, by sinning they were immediately condemned once and forever, whereas man has at least some time to make mistakes and repent insofar as his corporeal life continues.

Drinking blood in the form of wine is CONTINGENT. Praying to the one true God is NECESSARY. Believing God had a son 2000 years ago is CONTINGENT. Believing there is the one true God is NECESSARY. Believing the Godhead is triune is CONTINGENT. Believing that God is wholly one and in no way three is NECESSARY.

The Eucharist isn't technically necessary for salvation, although the grace it dispenses is incomparable, so this first sentence isn't that outrageous. The others are. They really amount to the same thing: the Trinity - that God has a Son, and also the Holy Spirit. This does not violate the simplicity of God so He remains one. It is precisely the Trinity that helped reconcile the Aristotelian conception of God as a merely final cause, never interacting with the world nor having any reason to. The Trinity does not separate the oneness of God, but explains how He can be both the final cause and the efficient cause of all creation; that He can have an Image of Himself which He Loves and uses for conveying His Word to creation.

@chirogonemd