(December 12, 2017 at 12:11 am)Dnte Wrote: Most scholars say Jesus existed. Ok but... I was thinking about the Bible. I've read the whole new testament and some parts of the old testament (probably 1/3 of it.)
I was thinking that maybe Jesus (the human prophet) staged all his miracles and made people believe he did all those things. His followers were religious zealots, so they helped him out. He probably paid someone to act as if they were blind/cripple/etc. and when he touched them, the person would have pretented he was cured.
When he was executed for being a public annoyance,
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that someone who was just in it for profit wouldn't have annoyed the Pharisees to the point they wanted him dead.
If you need a scenario to doubt the gospels, go with him simply being a teacher, and all the miraculous stuff was added over time. There's absolutely no evidence for that, but at least it doesn't have logical problems like the above.
