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  THE QUESTION:  Assuming there is no God and that you are only a man and not some divine being; how is it that so many unusual miracles were attributed to you and then recoded in the Bible as such?  

 

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  THE ANSWER:  Your questions are certainly legitimate and I would expect to be questioned on just about anything that the Christian faithful have been led to believe to be the truth.  The difficulty, of course, I actually had no direct part in the writing of any of those final accounts of my actual life and its reported ministry to my people.  What has been reported in the four Gospels attributed to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John roughly outlines only a small and certainly biased portion of my life.  With the possible exception of portions of what is attributed to Matthew, I had absolutely no input into the writings of any of the four Gospels as it is commonly assumed.  And I have no way of knowing that what any of them, including Matthew, had initially or finally written, had any of them even written anything in the first place, or that what had later been ascribed to them was not somehow altered to fit those established mythologies just in order to satisfy the spiritual and political demands of the Roman Empire at a time that was long after my crucifixion, and sometime later, my death.  This Bible that so many people consider to have been the written word of God was actually and initially written and later transcribed many times only by mortal men.  I have already explained some of the more obvious discrepancies that were consciously created during the reign of Constantine.  It is my strong suspicion that the leaders of these early, mostly Hebrew sects were so anxious to be recognized by Constantine that they probably yielded to certain compromises of fact, perhaps sincerely believing that these contrived changes in the truth could likely be corrected at some later date; they were, after all, only men that were tempted with the greatest religious prize of all for their day and position.  Many of these orchestrated deviations from the actual truth were enthusiastically embraced by some of the leaders of those early sects because it was likely perceived to have greatly enhanced the moral authority that they could have wielded over their various congregations; sort of a civil recognition and endorsement from the most powerful authority of the day.  I believe the modern phrase is, “power corrupts.”  But my having been made into a God imbued with all these miraculous powers, certainly placed the church and its clergy in a position not too unlike that of the witch doctor; demanding blind obedience with the awesome threat of unseen powers and spirits.  My ministry, if that is what you want to call it, was very simple and most certainly non-threatening to anyone except the establishment.  There simply were no demonstrations of magical powers performed, and in nearly all cases it was men who were not even present that had ultimately transcribed those recorded reports of these miraculous powers attributed to me, and sadly, most of their thought-to-be reliable sources, likewise, never personally witnessed any of these imaginative and erroneously recorded miracles.  With the exception of parts of Matthew, much of what was recorded in the four Gospels as they were translated and read today were likely only embellishments of hearsay accounts of what I had only possibility experienced during that brief period of my lifetime in the ministry to my people.  With the exception of these embellishments to the four Gospels, they do possess some semblance to reality.  In the course of this interview I hope to clarify some of the more specific misgivings that too often have been used by the clergy to further their own agendas; and their various and often inconsistent agendas, I might add, simply do not reflect that most basic and fundamental message of love that prevailed throughout my entire ministry, as unintentionally brief as it was.  I'll be pleased to clarify just what actually happened, but understand, that I won't be able to explain something that just didn't occur.  The real truth of the matter is that man himself is a bit of a miracle and his potential of discovery, understanding and creativity is something of a wonderment that far exceeds any of the miracles that were often erroneously attributed to me.  Why, man has already arrived at the point of actually creating life and certainly had continued to progress by leaps and bound in the scientific field of 'healing' all sorts of hideous infirmities and like me, being only a man and not some god, they are not able to exercise absolute power over nature.  Some things just can't be corrected, healed or saved.  That reality is what makes life itself such a potentially wonderful and miraculous experience, and most certainly that's the singular greatest miracle of all; the life-giving birth of one’ child and the miracle growth and its changes into one individual adult that is as so totally unique and thankfully diverse.  How one can imagine anything that is any more miraculous than life itself, is surely missing out on the very love that introduced love in the first place.

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