Apparently, Just One More Parlor Trick

Seems obvious to me; according to the Player's Handbook, divine spells (like Remove Blindness) have material components, just like arcane spells. Clearly the Son of God is at least a 9th-level cleric (minimum level to cast "Raise Dead") who didn't take the metamagic feats to cast "Remove Blindness" without the somatic, verbal, and material components. Not to mention dungeon crawling. Every party needs a cleric!

Or, alternatively, it's just the sort of embellishment his audience would have expected from a story about someone working magic. So, essentially your argument is that the account is so ridiculous it must be true?Why do miracles have material components? It makes sense in Dungeons and Dragons. It doesn't make sense in real life.

But that's generally a valid argument - ridiculous things are not generally true. So is your argument that it's true, or that it's not ridiculous?

Because misdirection and embellishment are the soul of a fantastic story. The clay business makes the story seem more magical, more legendary.You clearly never read any fantasy novels.

The fundamentals of fantasy storytelling are as old as civilization.Truly you are ignorant of the most basic aspects of cultures and mythology. Maybe you could try addressing my comments with substantial responses? Thanks.

I've shown you how Luke would have expected those details to substantiate his story based on storytelling techniques of the time. Predictably you have no response but to ignore the argument. Well, that's fine.

AD&D is apostasy. All must cleave to the 3rd Edition words of Tweet, Cook, and Williams or face the fires of perdition!