(June 16, 2023 at 2:12 pm)Vicki Q Wrote: The most Jesus achieved in his lifetime was a making decent set of chairs. Possibly a shed in someone's garden. Then he died.
Somehow his friends all decided he had freed humanity from death, fulfilled all the world-shattering promises of the prophets, and established the long awaited Kingdom of God.
Something must have happened.
Many opportunistic bullshitters and many gullible fools happened.
The same thing happened many times before, many time afterwards, and many times more or less contemporaneously with your thing. Yours favorite thing is not the only con that went big time. You just happen to not see the forest because you insist on staring too hard at your one favorite tree.