originally posted by: Dalamax
Considering the brick got cut where the assistant had their hands I’d say he’s a con, especially since his bit-o-paper hit the brick further
forward of the assistants hands.
More gee whizz then chi buis.
originally posted by: dontneedaname
Ok..you've disputed one video.
One too many. Jesus’ miracles stand in stark contrast to the work of professional illusionists, magicians, and faith healers. His powerful works
always glorified God. (John 9:3; 11:1-4) His miracles were free of emotional rituals, magic incantations,
showy displays, trickery, and
hypnotism. When Jesus encountered a blind beggar named Bartimaeus who cried, “
Rabboni, let me recover sight,” Jesus simply said to him:
“‘Go, your faith has made you well.’ And immediately he recovered sight.”—Mark 10:46-52.
The Gospel records show that Jesus performed his powerful works without props, specially planned staging, or trick lighting. They were performed out
in the open, often in front of numerous eyewitnesses. (Mark 5:24-29; Luke 7:11-15) Unlike attempts by modern faith healers, his efforts to heal never
failed because some ailing one supposedly lacked faith. Says Matthew 8:16: “He cured all who were faring badly.”
In his book
“Many Infallible Proofs:” The Evidences of Christianity, Scholar Arthur Pierson says of Christ’s miracles: “Their number,
the instantaneous and complete character of the cures he wrought, and the absence of one failure in the attempt even to raise the dead, put infinite
distance between these miracles and the pretended wonders of this or any other age.”
Pierson offers yet another argument that backs the Gospel accounts when he says: “No confirmation of the miracles of scripture is more remarkable
than the silence of enemies.” Jewish leaders had more than ample motive for wanting to discredit Jesus, but his miracles were so well-known that
opponents dared not deny them. All they could do was attribute such feats to demonic powers. (Matthew 12:22-24) Centuries after Jesus’ death, the
writers of the Jewish Talmud continued to credit Jesus with miraculous powers. According to the book
Jewish Expressions on Jesus, they
dismissed him as being one who “followed the practices of magic.” Would such a comment have been made if it was even remotely possible to dismiss
Jesus’ miracles as mere myth?
Further proof comes from fourth-century church historian Eusebius. In his book
The History of the Church From Christ to Constantine, he quotes
a certain Quadratus who sent a letter to the emperor in defense of Christianity. Quadratus wrote: “Our Saviour’s works were always there to see,
for they were true—the people who had been cured and those raised from the dead, who had not merely been seen at the moment when they were cured
or raised, but were
always there to see, not only when the Saviour was among us, but for a long time after His departure; in fact some of them
survived right up to my own time.” Scholar William Barclay observed: “Quadratus is saying that until his own day men on whom miracles had been
worked could actually be produced. If that was untrue nothing would have been easier than for the Roman government to brand it as a lie.”
Belief in the miracles of Jesus is reasonable, rational, and fully in harmony with the evidence.