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Originally Posted by Ugly Bastard
I believe Jesus was probably a fantastic illusionist. The David Blaine of his day, if you will. And in "his day", people were way more gullible, naive, and had far less information at their fingertips, so it was easy for them to cling to Jesus and begin worshipping him, which, if I had to guess, probably suited Jesus just fine since he was likely a huge narcissist.
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I don't really think that is all that accurate. Most of what was written about jesus was after he was dead; it would make much more sense that the people writing the stories simply add in bits of magic to make a relatively boring event worth reading.
To me it just seems more likely, although infinitely less awesome, that Jesus was not a practitioner of close-up magic.