It seems like the ending of John is overlooked. Just read it:
Now there are also many other things that Jesus did. Were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written. ~John 21:25
And by "things," it seems obvious that he means miracles. Which would make it the most outrageous lie in the Gospels.
Just think about it: Jesus did more miracles than could be written in all of the books that the world could possibly hold, and he did them in a relatively small area over one or two years of his activity. So, basically every person living in ancient Palestine had an interaction with Jesus's miracles a thousand times over.
Every day was like a hundred miracles for everyone. You wake up and you get healed, then you see people getting raised from the dead, and you get fed by food that came from nothing. Then you see herds of animals killed so that someone's demons get exercised, then you may see some astronomical miracles, like the sun dancing in the sky, and then you go to sleep, wake up, and repeat it all again for a year or two.
Now there are also many other things that Jesus did. Were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written. ~John 21:25
And by "things," it seems obvious that he means miracles. Which would make it the most outrageous lie in the Gospels.
Just think about it: Jesus did more miracles than could be written in all of the books that the world could possibly hold, and he did them in a relatively small area over one or two years of his activity. So, basically every person living in ancient Palestine had an interaction with Jesus's miracles a thousand times over.
Every day was like a hundred miracles for everyone. You wake up and you get healed, then you see people getting raised from the dead, and you get fed by food that came from nothing. Then you see herds of animals killed so that someone's demons get exercised, then you may see some astronomical miracles, like the sun dancing in the sky, and then you go to sleep, wake up, and repeat it all again for a year or two.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
