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** On occasion, Jesus' apostles. Some people can't understand "I will die, and rise again in three days" or the fact that Jesus can make more food when people are hungry.
*** How many people do you know who can do this? There were still doubts even in His camp about His true nature. After all, just because a person can bring back the dead doesn't neccesarily mean that they can bring themselves back from the dead. Just ask anyone who has played a video game with only one healer in the party!
** The Benjamites in Judges. Among your people are some [[Depraved Bisexual
** Samson is the [[Ur Example]] of this trope. (The "Dur" example?) The first time Delilah asks him the secret of his power, he lies to her and says he can be bound with fresh bowstrings. The next night she tries this. When it doesn't work, she asks again, and he lies to her again and says he can be bound with new ropes. The next night she tries this. When that doesn't work, she asks again, and again he lies to her and says he can be bound by weaving his hair together. Once again she tries and fails. So far so good. But the next time she asks? After she's proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that she's going to screw him over? '''He tells her the truth.''' Did we forget to mention that each of these attempts involve soldiers bursting in on cue to try to take advantage of the situation? Samson must have really been into bondage.
*** Made worse by the fact that Samson is not supposed to be your typical big dumb brute, and is shown in at least a few instances to be [[Genius Bruiser|rather clever.]]
*** The Philistines who were trying to kill him easily fall into this trope as well. Samson kills ONE THOUSAND of them with a DONKEY'S JAWBONE. You almost have to admire the last 300 or so who probably had to climb a mountain of their dead buddies just to get close enough to die.
** Heck, most of mankind in the Book of Revelation is this, generally overlapping with [[Humans Are
*** Granted, if God does all this stuff, [[God Is Evil|maybe they felt the idols deserved worship.]]
*** If you buy the theory that John was explaining the prophecy in terms that he could understand, it may be the case that the apocalypse, horrible as it is, won't be so obviously supernatural in it's trappings.
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