(March 11, 2014 at 10:53 am)Fromper Wrote:(March 11, 2014 at 12:51 am)whateverist Wrote: First, it would be interesting to see just exactly what there was to see. Maybe you'd be disappointed.Yup. I can't believe so many atheists here are playing this guy's game by actually answering the loaded question. He combined three hypothetical fantasy scenarios into one and tried to pretend it was only one. He acts like "if you lived in that time" was the only hypothetical scenario, and the whole bit about healing and miracles was assumed to be true. It's not.
Secondly, the same hypothetical could be applied to any religion's cast of characters. If you had been there to witness Thor battle the ice giants, would you still be so sure Jesus/God was the only act in town?
If I lived back then, I still wouldn't have witnessed any healing or miracles, because there were none. I would have seen a Jewish guy preaching and probably would have disregarded him, because I never took religion all that seriously even when I was Jewish.
As CapnAwesome pointed out, there's been a definite decline in claims of miracles as the understanding of science has advanced. People are better at thinking rationally and not believing any charlatan with a fake miracle to perform. Not that I think Jesus was a charlatan who pretended to perform miracles. Even if he did exist (still an open question in my mind, but I tend to accept that assumption for the sake of avoiding a debate about a subject I don't know or really care much about), it's a pretty safe bet that he wasn't going around claiming to be performing miracles. All that stuff was written into the books that became the Bible 30+ years later. Those writers would seem to be the ones who made up the claims about miracles, not Jesus himself.
How can you say as a matter of fact that there was no miracles back then? I gave the question as a hypothetical as if there were indeed true miracles how you would of responded to Him.
