(October 27, 2014 at 8:33 am)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: That miracles occurred and that Jesus' followers believed he demonstrated divinity in some way are two separate issues.
Let me put it this way: That some people may have believed that miracles occured. And we know nothing about Jesus's followers outside the bible. There are no contemporary accounts, but there may well have been campfire tales. And as it is with such tales, they grow and grow.
The people Jesus supposedly preached to were superstitious illiterates that knew next to nothing about the world surrounding them.
The tales of Jesus aren't any more credible than Homer's Iliad. Yes, there is actually a city named Troy, yes, there has been fighting. But there's no evidence of Apoll showing up to shoot Achill with his arrow.