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Pikachuchupika posted...

You know what is crazy? Not the stories or the bible...but the people today that still take it to heart and live with those stories as their convictions. That's crazy. It happened 2000 years ago. 2000 years ago! We don't even know if Jesus existed. And even if he did exist, he certainly did not have any powers or was a son of god, etc. How come there aren't any magical people like that today? Where'd they all go?

Most scholars agrees that a historical Jesus existed.
He was most likely just a guy that wanted a better world, and then more and more stories were added as time went on.
It existed many Messiah candidates back then, and people wanted one to appear.
One of them, John the Baptist, even appears in the Bible.
They all had their own gimmick. One could revive the dead. One could turn water into wine. One could cure sick people. Etc.
Did Jesus steal all these stories as his own?
Maybe.
My own theory is that he appeared at the right place and right time.
He wanted people to be nicer, and predicted about it. His followers saw him as Messiah, and he accepted the role to be able to spread his believes further.
His followers started to make up stories behind his back to make him look better, to get more followers. Adding the other Messiah candidates miracles probably happened after his death, either on purpose or by mistake (Hey, heard about that Messiah that cured that sick guy? Messiah... you mean that Jesus guy?).
As time went, more and more was added. And some got removed.
One of the NT books works really hard on trying to make the Romans into the good guys that were forced to kill him because of the "evil Jews".