>Not sure about her marital status when she got up the duff. If she was married then sorry, yes, stoning was the punishment for adultery, wasn't it? Check this hypothesis:
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>I don't know whether Joseph had been away on a protracted carpentry conference and Mary had her fling. Joseph obviously loived her and forgave her, but ghe couldn't claim the child to be his own, so they concocted this stor

Sure, that is an alternative explanation.

>>If you want to buy a tyre, you will look at the quality of the tyres, and not judge the vendor by his ability to convert plain tyres into gold tyres.
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>Don't get the point of this allegory but, damn yes! if my tyre dealer could convert the tyre into gold I could go and get is assayed, sell it, and go a buy all 4 corners with a fraction of the proceeds! :-)

I think it must have been "buy a car" and "car dealer". I should look it up (eventually), instead of relying on my memory...

Anyway, let me rephrase. You buy the car for the car's properties, not because the car dealer does (or is said to do) some miracles.

The "teacher", in case it was not perfectly clear, refers to God's Messengers, in this case, Jesus. His role was to educate mankind. You judge Him by this capacity (did He do a good job, educating people?) and not by the fact that He is said to have walked over water, or converted water to wine. Whether He did so or not is quite irrelevant for His designated task: to provide spiritual education to mankind. Or, as the Christians would say, to save mankind; but I think that in the end, it amounts to the same thing.

That is not to say that Jesus was incapable of doing miracles - as a Messenger of God, which I believe Him to be, He must have been endowed with certain powers. It only means that these miracles are not very relevant to His main task - nor are they very relevant as a sign by which to recognize Him.