• Zabjam@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    Do you have a video of Jesus?

    Finding a 6000 year old video of Spiderman would not change the discussion at all (besides questions about modern technology that supposedly is thousands of years old). We do have modern movies that show a Spiderman. Just like those, a video tape of a 6000 year old human spider is not proof that human-spider hybrids exist. It just proves that there are people who pretend to be a Spiderman.

    So, stories about Jesus performing miracles can (maybe) be proof of people having existed who claimed or were said to be a Jesus. But they don’t prove that miracles are a thing.

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      9 months ago

      So, stories about Jesus performing miracles can (maybe) be proof of people having existed who claimed or were said to be a Jesus. But they don’t prove that miracles are a thing.

      The Sermon on the Mount only becomes a miracle when you add in fish magic. Before that point, it’s just a story about a guy who gives a speech and covers the tab for lunch.