Quote Originally Posted by Memphis View Post
I think Jesus is like the dog in the Derren Brown program about luck. The dog exists but has no magical powers, its a lump of concrete (or whatever it was). It didnt take much effort to plant the seed that the dog brings good luck and people were falling over themselves to believe it.The dog already exists so the works half done but people wanted to believe in its mystical power so much that Im sure they could have planted a new statue of a fictitious character who maybe passed through the village at some point in time and did great things.Assuming it wasnt some massive scam that the whole village was in on the people of the village behaved exactly as he would have hoped, they believed the truth that they were presented with, even though it was false, even though some of them probably new it was false.I liked the old guy who got asked about the lucky dog story, of course he new about the lucky dog story, its been around for years and years (despite it being made up a few weeks ago).I dont see that its a massive leap of faith to think that over the course of 50 - 100 years that story of a dog statue who 'made' a few people win a tenner on the lottery or get the all clear on a test from the docs, or do well in an exam could mutate into a statue of a dog that brings great riches, can heal the sick, bring great wisdom?
!GoD fo hcruhc eht ,looC !woW