Someone sent me these alleged proofs of Jesus' supposed "deity." My response:
1. TEACHINGS. Lots of people have claimed to be gods or sons of gods. Jesus was, demonstrably, a liar. He lied to the high priest of Israel during his trial (John 18:20). If he told that lie to the highest religious authority on earth ("I have taught nothing in secret" - the opposite of what he says to his disciples in Matthew 13:10-12), then it follows that the rest of his more fantastic claims were lies as well. He was not just a liar and a lunatic; he was a fool. He thought Isaiah 53 was about a suffering person, namely himself, but it's not about a person; it's about the Babylonian captivity of Israel and the Persian restoration 70 years later. He claimed to be the "Son of Man" from Daniel 7:13, but again, that's not about a person: it refers to the Maccabean war & the Hasmonean dynasty. And at the exact moment Jesus was lying to the high priest, his chief disciple, Peter, was just outside, lying about knowing Jesus, swearing an oath under penalty of a curse (Matthew 26:74). If he swore an oath that he didn't know Jesus, then his loftier claims - to having witnessed supernatural events and obtained supernatural powers - are not the least bit trustworthy. Was Jesus demon-possessed? Note that he only performs miracles and claims supernatural status after his meeting with the Devil, who promised him an earthly kingdom while tempting him to perform miracles and endanger his life to prove that he's the son of God. He doesn't perform anything then and there; however, immediately upon returning to the company of humans, Jesus declares himself a king and succumbs to the Devil's temptations from the beginning of his ministry to the moment of his arrest. After his arrest, he mysteriously loses his power to perform miracles, which strongly suggests that, like any common magician, he needed disciples, assistants, stooges and props to pull off sleight-of-hand tricks to bamboozle credulous onlookers. On the cross, instead of freeing himself, or, say, the repentant thief, he laments that God has forsaken him, meaning he was expecting angels to rescue him, which was one of the Devil's earlier temptations. Fool? Lunatic? Influenced by demons? Jesus can check all three of those boxes.
2. RESURRECTION. Jesus' resurrection was not unique, nor was it supported by historical attestation (the obvious forgery attributed to Josephus in the 4th century was unknown to Christians of the 3rd century, who were well-acquainted with the author's work). In Jesus' time, seeing dead people was a common delusion, along with seeing angels, saints, ghosts & demons; in recent decades it's morphed into flying saucers & space aliens. If people 2,000 years from now claim that aliens visited earth in our time based on writings mentioning supposed eyewitness accounts of aliens and saucers, that isn't proof of aliens or saucers. People see a thing or meet (or hear about, or dream about) a person and their imagination fills in the details later. According to the gospels, people thought both John & Jesus were Elijah (even Jesus says John was Elijah). After John's death, people thought Jesus was John, physically risen from the dead (even king Herod heard this rumor). After Jesus' death, the gospels tell us of three incidents where Jesus supposedly appears "in another form," not recognized at first by his closest disciples, including Peter, Mary, Cleopas & his unnamed companion, and 6 of the other 10 apostles. That's nothing but a surrogate manifestation. Also, Mary was insane (Luke 8:2) and Peter can't seem to discern dreams and visions from reality (Acts 12:9, Matthew 17:4 & 9). As for Paul, the description of his Damascus revelation sounds identical to a temporal lobe epileptic seizure. Nothing supernatural about that.
3. PROPHECIES. Jesus didn't fulfil a single Old Testament prophecy, let alone 300. New Testament authors and church fathers flagrantly misquote the Old Testament and adduce passages out of context to support their claims of prophecy fulfillment. For example, Matthew says Isaiah 7:14 is about Jesus and his "virgin" mother although Isaiah is clearly talking about his own wife and son (see Isaiah 8:3 & 8:18). Matthew quotes Hosea 11:1 ("out of Egypt I called my son"), though the prophet is clearly referring to the Exodus story, with God's son being the nation of Israel. And Jesus' own supposed predictions were written after his death and the destruction of Jerusalem 40 years later. This is the case with all supposedly fulfilled prophecies: all seemingly accurate prophetic prediction is actually post-diction; everything else is just guessing. Jesus' coming-back-to-be-king prophecy remains unfulfilled 2,000 years later, though he promised his followers it would occur in their lifetime (Matthew 16:28). In Deuteronomy 18:22, God says that's how you can identify a false prophet: when a prophecy does not come to pass "the prophet has spoken presumptuously; you need not fear him." Also, for good measure, the false prophet is to be put to death (Deut. 18:20).
4. MIRACLES. Jesus' miracles were not unique. Other magicians performed signs and wonders: Jannes, Jambres, Simon, Apollonius, and, most notably, emperor Vespasian, whose healing miracles are so similar to Jesus' as to suggest, employing Occam's razor, that both "miracles" were nothing more than faith-healing magic tricks, and if they prove the divinity of one, they prove with equal authority the divinity of the other, and, indeed, the claim was made by worshipers of both, and they were both wrong. In Deuteronomy 13, God says he will allow false prophets to perform miracles to test the faith of Israel. So when Jesus says he was sent by God, maybe he was right - that he was sent to test Israel the way Satan was sent, by God, to test the faith of Job. In Christian mythology, false christs and a being called Antichrist are supposed to tempt the Christians, and to lead many astray by performing miracles. Therefore, miracles cannot possibly prove divinity.
That gullible people believe in demons, resurrections, prophecies and miracles is by no means proof of the existence of demons, resurrections, prophecies or miracles. It only proves the existence of gullible people.
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