Kathryn
It was on fire when I laid down on it.
No, you're not "checking some weird fable in the gospels." You are attempting to discredit the story in the Gospels (and the Gospels in general) by using "logic."
But here's some logic for you:
It appears that you believe in demons. You state that demons don't drown - they would have just left the pigs and gone elsewehere. Instead, all these pigs which were the property of someone else were killed - and apparently you're claiming that Jesus killed them.
If you read all three accounts of the story, you will see that Jesus did not command the pigs to run off the cliff in any account. He simply commanded the demons to leave the possessed man and enter the pigs instead.
But here's my point about asking you whether or not you believed in demons. If you do believe, I'd like to know the depth of your knowledge on the subject. You stated that demons don't drown. How do you know that? Where can I find some in depth study on whether or not demons can be killed? Are they immortal? Interesting.
If you don't believe in demons, and you don't believe that Jesus could cast them out because they're not real anyway, then how could you believe that they entered the pigs, or that Jesus could command these non existant beings in any way?
Finally, regardless of your belief or lack of belief about demons, your claim that Jesus ran the pigs off the cliff is simply not backed up by the scriptures.
One other point on the topic of whether or not Jesus commanded someone to steal a donkey. We don't know enough about the story because not enough detail is given on the transaction. We don't know if the plan the entire time was to return the donkey to the owner, or whether or not the owner was compensated in any way. We don't know whether the owner was a supporter of Jesus and would have actually been honored to let Jesus use his donkey. We simply don't know, so we're simply speculating.
