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Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen

Finnish theologian

Jul 8, 2026

8:55
He was amazed at their lack of faith." So yeah, help us understand, maybe just explain what all goes into making this a tricky passage.
9:06
Yes, this passage is very difficult and has been very difficult for the church throughout the centuries because by a plain reading, It's just telling us in English or in any language that because of unbelief, Jesus, who was fully divine and fully human, was not able to perform any miracles.
9:37
Therefore, this is a good stuff for liberal theologians like Bultmann and others.
9:45
They said, this is not the problem because he claimed to be divine, but he was not.
9:50
But we evangelicals, we don't go with that argument.
9:55
We believe, as the church has believed from the beginning, that Jesus was fully human, but fully divine.
10:04
And if we look at the passage, there are a number of written intentions and dynamics.

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24:55
And so anytime a Christian is dealing with illness or some sort of some sort of uh difficulty then it's well you don't have enough faith that's why you're not healed how should we i guess that i'm mixing practical and exegetical exegetical questions but

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