[quote]Varqanir wrote:
IrishSteel wrote:
Here is a few suggestions from my library:
Excellent selections, Irish.
Socrates Meet Jesus- Peter Kreeft
Hmmm. I’ve read something along those lines. The conversation is probably a different one from in your book, though.[/quote]
Here, I have one:
Socrates: So, you are the son of God?
Jesus: I am the way, the light the truth, etc.
Socrates: I have to admit to being a little skeptical.
Jesus: About what?
Socrates: Well anyone can claim to be the son of God; but it’s prudent to assume that the person is deluded, not divine.
Jesus: I can demonstrate.
Socrates: Really? Wonderful.
Jesus: Look at this bottle.
Socrates: The one that says “Wine?”
Jesus: It’s filled with water.
Socrates: Why does it say “Wine” then?
Jesus: It had wine, but I drank it and filled it with water.
Socrates: Okay…
Jesus: Let me concentrate… here, now taste it.
Socrates: It’s wine.
Jesus: QED.
Socrates: But it already said wine.
Jesus: Well it wasn’t wine. I told you I drank the wine and filled it up with water. Now it’s wine again. A miracle.
Socrates: Turn it back to water.
Jesus: What!? Why?
Socrates: Well then I can taste it to make sure it’s water and then you turn it to wine again.
Jesus: And waste this perfectly good wine? No way.
Socrates: I’m still unconvinced.
Jesus: How’bout I multiply this loaf of bread?
Socrates: That might be more convincing.
Jesus: Ok, watch.
Socrates: You tore the loaf in two.
Jesus: How many pieces do you see?
Socrates: Two halves of one loaf.
Jesus: Are we going to split hairs over trivial details? How many PIECES do you see.
Socrates: Two.
Jesus: Ok, wait. And now? How many pieces?
Socrates: Four… sigh.
Jesus: You’re a tough one.
Socrates: You’re showing me bottles of wine and tearing up bread.
Jesus: I’ll walk on water.
Socrates: Ok, that’d be good.
Jesus: Here I go.
Socrates: You spilled water on the ground and you’re splashing around in the puddle.
Jesus: Is the ground wet?
Socrates: Well of course it is.
Jesus: Are my sandals over the wet ground?
Socrates: Well, yes.
Jesus: Since there is water between the ground and my sandals, am I not walking on water?
Socrates: Well, technically, yes, but…
Jesus: Ah! Behold the power of the Lord!
Socrates: THose aren’t even good parlor tricks.
Jesus: And still you persist? What if I curse a fig tree so that it never produces figs again?
Socrates: Figs aren’t in season.
Jesus: No problem, the curse will last for all seasons.
Socrates: It will take a while to confirm.
Jesus: We’ll ask the narrator to fast forward time a bit.
Socrates: To what?
Jesus: To make the seasons fly by.
Socrates: Ok. I’ve already wasted half an hour. Might as well see this through the end.
Jesus: Ok, let me concentrate. . There.
Socrates: There? Where there?
Jesus: There in the corner.
Socrates: That’s a broom.
Jesus: The handle is made from the wood of a fig tree.
Socrates: Ok, but it’s not producing figs.
Jesus: Told you.
Socrates: I mean, it’s been dead for a while, it wasn’t producing figs before you cursed it.
Jesus: Of course not, it’s not fig season.
Socrates: IT’S A BROOM!
Jesus: And it’ll never produce figs again. Now do you believe?
Socrates: I believe I could use a drink.
Jesus: Be careful what you drink.
Socrates: Why?
Jesus: Never mind. You’ll get it later.