Jesus Faked It All ( Satire piece about the denial of Christ) The world of high-level skepticism is a fascinating place, mostly because it requires you to believe that Jesus of Nazareth was the greatest project manager in human history. To hear the critics tell it, the Son of God wasn’t the Savior—He was a master illusionist pulling off a touring magic show with the world’s most uncooperative stagehands. But if we actually look at the logistics of “faking it all,” we realize that being the Messiah would have been much easier than being the con artist the skeptics describe. To believe the “hoax” theory, you have to believe that Jesus was essentially running a first-century version of Ocean’s Eleven, but with fishermen who couldn’t keep a secret if their lives depended on it—and spoiler alert: their lives eventually did. Take, for instance, the man born blind. If this was a “gotcha” moment, the commitment to the bit is staggering. We have to imagine a man who decided, as a toddler, “I’m going to commit to twenty-five years of staring blankly at walls and begging for crusts of bread, just so one day a guy from Nazareth can put dirt on my face and I can pretend to see.” He’d have to fool his parents, his neighbors, and the local government for decades without once accidentally catching a ball or swatting a fly. It’s a level of “method acting” that would make Daniel Day-Lewis look like an amateur. Yet the Word tells us that when the “act” was over, the man didn’t take a bow; he took a stand, saying, “One thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see” (John 9:25). Continue Article at https://thelordsreturn.com/jesus-faked-it-all/ #followjesus #thelordsreturn