If Jesus Christ actually existed, is it possible that he wasn't a miracle worker but a street magician?

[KostasKouvalis]

An illusionist. If you read about his miracles like walking on water, turning water into wine, multiplying the loaves, levitating, even raising people from the dead. This all sounds eerily similar to tricks performed by modern day illusionists and street magicians. So is it possible that Jesus didn't actually possess any supernatural powers, but was just an ancient David Blaine. Maybe even a con artist. Who had assistants. I mean, there were geniuses back then, so why couldn't there have been street magicians?

Totally dude! You need to get this theory published!

How dare you speak such blasphemy? This was the legitimate son of God!

[Cassie88]

Yes, totally dude! :) There was a British magician (Dynamo) who a couple of years ago performed the trick of walking not just on water, but on the Thames river, in broad daylight and in front of thousands of people.

[KostasKouvalis]

I'm familiar with him, but I'm not a fan of his as a lot of his tricks are specifically "made for TV" and would be impossible to achieve without CGI editing or staging, like his famous Cell Phone in a Glass Bottle Trick" But that's not to say magicians can't perform tricks like this for real. They probably put a platform under there for him to walk on. And I mean, David Copperfield made the Statue of liberty disappear.

Most of these tricks don't need fancy equipment and could have easily been performed with the materials Jesus had available.

By the way, I love your relationship update :p

[Cassie88]

Yes, it's complicated. And it is too.

[purplepoppy]

The miracles stories were probably added long after his death to make Christianity more appealing.
In a time where the sick and disabled littered the streets it's odd he cured only a tiny number.

[BCRanger10]

No, it is not.

For one thing, one only needs to look at the claims that He made of Himself (and, more importantly, the way in which He made them) and then do so in light of the time, place, and culture in which He did so. He was not just a "miracle worker", let alone just for the sake of working miracles. And then, of course, the subsequent claims His followers made and what they suffered for doing so.

[Guy13]

Josephus for one but there are other secularist historians that document Jesus existed and His works are accurate. Everyday Romans, Jews, and Muslims of that era, Forensic evidence, archaeology and do on.
You would be better serve doing just a little bit of research.

[Emii_Urashima]

If you read the book of Mark in the new testiment, right after the part of Jesus crucifixion, there is a note that says this is the end of the original story and admits that the rest of the verses, which include his resurrection, were added later. You will find this note in most blbles today. The question people should ask is if he did come back from the dead, then why was this not included in the early verson of Mark but only added hundreds of years later?

[Guy13]

@Emii_Urashima

You are making up stuff inside your head and clearly have a closed mind to religiously independent archaeology, history, forensics Science, and a 3000 year timeline of which the first five books all religions agree upon.
I can show you in Surah where it says Jesus is God, talk to the Christians if you want to know about God and states God is Dualistic. I have done the Hebrew Arabic language research. You are very uninformed. Embarrassingly uninformed...

[strateguy632]

impossible for magician to do what witnesses saw he did.