RE: Who was Jesus?
August 16, 2021 at 12:40 am
(This post was last modified: August 16, 2021 at 12:41 am by vulcanlogician.)
(August 15, 2021 at 11:49 pm)Ahriman Wrote: Jesus wouldn't have needed to perform miracles, for me to consider Him an excellent man.
This is a powerful idea. Way more powerful than any idea a person has about Jesus performing miracles. "People who sacrifice themselves for a higher ideal are worth paying attention to (or at the very least, worth honoring or respecting... giving tribute)." THAT'S the idea.
When it needs to be a "magic person" or "divine person" who was sacrificed in order to make sense of the moral, then the story loses much of its meaning.
Quote:His miracles are just icing on the cake.
Do you think the miracles written in the Gospels are true? I don't. I don't have definite knowledge one way or the other, but I conclude that the descriptions of miracles found in the Gospels were fabrications. Sure, maybe I'm wrong. But it is reasonable to conclude as I have concluded. It's a discussion worth having, anyway, and I think the conclusion that the miracles were fabricated is defensible. Very defensible.
