The God of Convenience

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No objective testing of Jesus' miracles was accomplished at the time. Nor were Jesus or his followers concerned about that. There were so called miracle workers all over the place in the area at the time. Jesus was just a lower class wandering preacher as far as the Roman and Jewish officials were concerned. Just as the government today doesn't go out and investigate miracles, even though the Vatican does, I'm sure that the Roman and Jewish officials didn't either. I contend that most unbelievers would just dismiss them in their minds, the same as they do today.

We're talking about a time when Roman generals consulted their augurs before going into battle. And as far a civilization is concerned, the Romans and Greeks were the most reasonable people of the age. The common people were much more gullible than the upper classes, even more so in Judea, where education was practically unknown. So these miracle workers found a susceptible audience, which can eplain a lot about Jesus and his followers. The possibility of him being a very skilled snake oil vendor is much more plausible than his divinity when it comes to dealing with reality.