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Jesus and His Miracles
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When did Jesus start doing miracles?
Was it only in the last part of His life when people started following Him?
Was it something he could do from the manger or did he have to develop the skill?
Or did he just do them all the time and have to learn to control it? Like did Mary give him fish for lunch and sometimes the moment He picked it up it was alive again? (Could be quite inconvenient.)
Was it only in the last part of His life when people started following Him?
Was it something he could do from the manger or did he have to develop the skill?
Or did he just do them all the time and have to learn to control it? Like did Mary give him fish for lunch and sometimes the moment He picked it up it was alive again? (Could be quite inconvenient.)
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There are tales emanating from ancient texts that tell of the infant Jesus informing his mother from the cradle that he was the son of God (I thought having hobnobbed with an angel she already knew that - but there you are), and as a child, among other things, bringing clay models of birds to life. Judas Iscariot is also purported to have been a playmate of Jesus. It would appear that Jesus wasn't all sweetness and light though, but was in fact a bit of brat because when another boy ran into him and knocked him over, Jesus struck him dead! How's that for Christian forgiveness? ;o)
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When passing judgment on evidence one usually looks for independent corroboration to determine which accounts are true.
Fact is there is no independent contemporary corroboration of the Biblical accounts. Indeed the Biblical account is not even self consistent. Although one would have expected the grandest feature of His life was the ability to perform miracles only one of the Canonical texts mentions them.
Despite the remarkable claims as to His abilities, not one single other written word outside the Bible has ever come to light that suggests Jesus even existed. How such a remarkable man would go unnoticed to the wider world suggests he didn't exist.
Given that the miraculous events described are clearly fictional I see no reason not to assume that everything about Jesus is a work of fiction. Clearly the story was constructed with the express purpose of "fulfilling" the Old Testament prophecies.
It written at a time with a convenient historical setting that ensured nobody alive could have been an eye witness to the purported events.
Fact is there is no independent contemporary corroboration of the Biblical accounts. Indeed the Biblical account is not even self consistent. Although one would have expected the grandest feature of His life was the ability to perform miracles only one of the Canonical texts mentions them.
Despite the remarkable claims as to His abilities, not one single other written word outside the Bible has ever come to light that suggests Jesus even existed. How such a remarkable man would go unnoticed to the wider world suggests he didn't exist.
Given that the miraculous events described are clearly fictional I see no reason not to assume that everything about Jesus is a work of fiction. Clearly the story was constructed with the express purpose of "fulfilling" the Old Testament prophecies.
It written at a time with a convenient historical setting that ensured nobody alive could have been an eye witness to the purported events.
Well remember that the bible is not a single book but a compedium.
the synoptic Gospells of Mathew, Mark and Luke can be compared for consistancy and as you say have some interesting deviations.
There is the near contemporary Jewish Historian Josephus although some of what he is supposed to have written is clearly a very crude later forgerie and the remainder is not very illuminating - but enough to make me believe that Jesus did at least exist.
Thing is we see enough supposed accounts of various miracles - from miraculous statues to raisings from the dead that are not associated with Jesus or even with Christianity.
There's nothing special about the claims for Jesus's miracles
I guess people believe the miracles that support their own religious narrative and reject those that don't.
They are in effect a measure of the faith that followers have in their religious leaders nothing more.
the synoptic Gospells of Mathew, Mark and Luke can be compared for consistancy and as you say have some interesting deviations.
There is the near contemporary Jewish Historian Josephus although some of what he is supposed to have written is clearly a very crude later forgerie and the remainder is not very illuminating - but enough to make me believe that Jesus did at least exist.
Thing is we see enough supposed accounts of various miracles - from miraculous statues to raisings from the dead that are not associated with Jesus or even with Christianity.
There's nothing special about the claims for Jesus's miracles
I guess people believe the miracles that support their own religious narrative and reject those that don't.
They are in effect a measure of the faith that followers have in their religious leaders nothing more.
