Jesus perform many miracles during his lifetime. His first was turning water into wine at a wedding in cana…
I was wondering if other founders of religion also had supernatural powers (according to their own faiths).
Did Mohammad also perform miracles? Buddha? Martin Luther King? Joseph Smith? (Aside from his translation of the Book of Mormons), etc…
Thanks all
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oopps, :smack: I mean martin luther of the reformation. the guy who posted his 95 theses to the door in wittenberg church (guess there were’nt any message boards back then) 
None attributed to Muhammed.
I am not aware that Martin Luther King founded a religion.
Someone with more specific knowledge can hopefully elaborate, but I heard of at least one guy before Jesus who had many of the same miracles attributes to him, and was considered by some to be the messiah.
Sorry for the vagueness.
You are probably thinking of Mithra.
No miracles attributed to Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, who emphasized that he was not a deity. No miracles attributed to Martin Luther either.
I am not aware of any miracles attributed to Martin Luther, but generally in Christian history miracles are by no means exclusive to Jesus. Most hagiographies (biographies of saints) list all sorts of crazy miracles performed by Christian men and women throughout the centuries. Those traditions aside, the Bible records miracles performed by some of Jesus’ disciples as well as Old Testament figures such as Moses.
(Technically, all of these miracles are not performed by the individual, but by God, through the individual).
Possibly, but I may need to correct some oversights in that article; there’s no mention of the time he fought Godzilla.
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< slaps Revtim with Wet Trout >
My brother made that same joke in Sunday School & got paddled for it.
orionzpear–miracles are attributed to Jesus BenJoseph. However, other sources suggest that he spent time in Egypt, & learned slight-of-hand there. Modern stage illusionists can replicate all of the seeming miracles attributed to Jesus BenJoseph.
That doesn’t mean he was or was not what he claimed to be–it is simply info “on the books”, so to speak, & ought not to be ignored.
Buddha has supernatural powers attributed to him in some stories. He could supposedly glow in the dark and read minds, for instance.
You studied about Mithra in Sunday School? That’s one progressive church.
I believe that some Roman Emperors were also credited with miracles. Suetonius and Tacitus claim that Vespasian healed a blind man and a lame man, for instance.
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Brain fart. :o
Brudda Tommy made a “Godzilla comes from God” line at the Episcopal Church, & got his fanny fanned all the way home. And yes, he was going: “WEE-WEE-WEE!” Mostly 'cause he was so scared of Mom & Dad’s humiliated fury. Grounded 2 weeks, & dog poo cleaning duty for the whole summer, as I recall.
Except maybe raising a guy from the dead. Not that it couldn’t be done with a lot of prep work. 
Miracles are attribute to Buddha (of Buddhism) and Lao Tzu (of Taoism), and at one point to Confucius. Unlike Christianty, the miracles were written into the record many centuries after these figures lived.
[orionzpear–miracles are attributed to Jesus BenJoseph.
Is this the Jesus Christ we Catholics believe in? Or Another person? First time I’ve seen someone called the guy that name. You have any links I could go to? it sounds interesting…
Same guy. I believe the Ben is the Hebrew way to say “son of”, like Johnson. I have generally heard it used by non-Christians who would think it inappropriate to use the title “Christ”.
“Jesus BenJoseph” simply means “Jesus, the son of Joseph”, & is a common way of naming someone in that era. Yes, same guy.
A couple of other posters have listed links in the past.
Check this.
As with all Wikipedia articles, take it with a grain of salt.
Christian miracles were not written into the record until many decades after Jesus lived either and none of the miracle stories are attested by eyewitnesses. Vespasian’s miracles, on the otherhand, were attested during his lifetime. Tacitus claims to have heard about them from eyewitnesses (though he implies a belief that the healngs were staged).
I don’t think stage magic explanations need to enter into this. The authors of the Gospels made up the miracle stories to illustrate theological points. No naturalistic explanations are required to explain purely mythical events.
How can you know?
which is unsuprising, since the only records we have at all were written decades (“many” is debatable) after he lived. It’s just as accurate to say that the miracles are present in the earliest records of Jesus’ life.
You know it’s unlikely that the Gospel authors “made up” the miracle stories, since there is quite an overlap between them. It is much more likely that they all got the stories from a common source. And there is no reason to assume that the stories did not originate from eyewitness accounts, unless you dismiss the possibilty of miracles occuring at all, a priori.