There is no evidence that Jesus performed miracles for the same reason that there is no evidence that Merlin or Gandalf performed miracles.
Anyone can perform miracles in a work of fiction.
Over and over, we see the bible claiming miracles that don’t hold water.
The miracles of the Genesis creation accounts (there are two contradictory creation accounts) don’t hold water because we know trees didn’t grow on earth before the sun was created and we know there is no “firmament” in the sky, etc.
The miracles of the Great Flood and Noah’s ark don’t hold water because we know there was never a global flood that covered the highest mountains. Any bright child can explain why.
- Kangaroos can’t hop across vast oceans from Australia to the Middle East.
- Two bees can’t survive because a queen and drone can’t feed themselves or baby bees.
- etc.
The miracles of the Exodus don’t hold water because modern archeology has proved that there was:
- no mass enslavement of Israelites in Egypt;
- no evidence of the hundreds of thousands of graves and skeletons that 2-3 million people wandering in the desert for 40 years would have left behind;
- no evidence of a military takeover of Canaan at the time of Moses, Joshua and Caleb;
- etc.
We know Jesus didn’t actually perform the miracles claimed in the bible for simple, obvious reasons:
- No one living at the time of Jesus wrote a single word about him, outside the bible.
- The alleged “miracles” of Jesus were never mentioned by the first christian writer, the apostle Paul.
- Paul and the author of the first gospel, Mark, never mentioned:
- The “virgin birth.”
- The magical “Star of Bethlehem” (and how does a star point at a specific house?).
- The Magi.
- Angels serenading the birth of Jesus.
- The “massacre of the innocents.”
- The “flight into Egypt.”
- The ludicrous ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE.
- Jesus soaring into the clouds like Superman.
- The loopy “trinity.”
- All this nonsense was made up long after the fact, much of it in the second and third centuries AD, long after the deaths of Jesus and all the apostles.
There is no evidence of any “miracles” of Jesus because they were the inventions of charlatans who used such nonsense to scam money from the gullible, as charlatans continue to do today.
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