✡ Pondering the end-times…the topic of Reconstructionism, particularly the removal of the supernatural makes me think of The Jefferson Bible. I have never read it, as I only learned of it recently. Seems like many a person has tried to remove the supernatural before (even though this case it is re: Jesus, but the sentiment it there.)
Do you think it is possible to remove the supernatural and still believe in a messiah? It seems like Kaplan thought they were incompatible. This is a topic my brother and I discuss for hours at a time, because we both have this sense that the supernatural is so far beyond our ability to comprehend it is like taking the limit of infinity in calculus: it just isn’t perceivable with our limited minds.
But if the messiah should not be expected to bend the laws of nature (per Rambam) then he or she will not necessarily be supernatural. No? Maybe theses concepts can coexist? I wonder what Kaplan’s rationale looked like.