Was Jesus a Wizard?’ Is Actually a Serious Scholarly Question

Thank you for making this important distinction between sorcery and mystical powers/ magic.

So...I need an answer to this. Can you answer this? Anyone? Rationally? I kind of doubt it...cause what are you going to condemn those that lived before only because Jesus did not exist yet? Or do they get a pass? I don't get it...

I just found this while trying to decompress from my schoolwork before certification work lol and my opinion is yes...yes he was...

no 'cause that would be comparing him to simon magus or the gnostics and mystics and that's bahhhhhh'd

It all comes with a price.

He was not an Essene. He rejected all the garments those expecting Him made. He didn't need them. He didn't need their teachings. He was the embodiment of the autogenes. The self created first being made. He didn't need anything outside of His own being because He created himself. He prepared a body for his use. That's not magic, sorcery or wizardry. That's the power of the creator itself. No human has that sort of power and it's not humans' power to be bottled up in potions and rituals for personal gain.

Jesus is a battery for religion except it's not Jesus that's being used as the battery. It's the worshipers powering the false Jesus egregore garments all the different sects sowed.

The early icons were of a man holding rods, staffs, scrolls or books. He wasn't shown on a cross until Rome took over in 300s.

Best to have a direct relationship and leave all the others in between out. Everyone is out to make a buck on God. Bad luck with all that. There is a price for taking from the power for a profit.

Different garment makers have been profiting off of Christ for two thousand years. Bill always comes due.

magic is nothing more than moving of energy. We all do it, all the time.

FYI no Christian is a witch, because a witch is pagan. Christians who do are called magicians. Unless they are sanctioned by a church, in which case the magic is called a miracle. But the distinction means nothing. Jesus taught that we could do miracles like him, and intended us to come into our power as human beings.

I believe Jesus did an elaborate blood magic ritual using his own blood, which is why any human can invoke him to rebuke a demon. Before he did that demons ran rampant in the ancient world. There is a reason why people used to be so fearful and superstitious. They had a lot to be afraid of and they understood a lot of things that we modern people have become ignorant of. Also, because of Jesus's sacrifice things have changed for humanity.

The demons are extremely jealous of us, because human beings have superpowers compared to them. God made us special and above them, we just have to grow into the power that God gave us.

I believe this is why the greys (demons or inter dimensional beings) are studying our religions, because they are afraid of our spiritual power. They don't even understand it.

The two primary competing orthodox views on this matter are that the souls of all those born prior to Christ's new covenant are either:

1. Judged entirely on the basis of the old Noahide laws, the Ten Commandments, and the Holy Torah, particularly the codes of ethics and law in Leviticus. It was a much higher standard of spiritual rigor and the consequences were unforgiving. Some theologians believe that the souls who were damned prior to Christ's death can be saved through a prayer for divine intervention.

2. Held in purgatory "asleep", awaiting the final judgment when they will be given the opportunity to personally accept or deny Christ.

He's such a wizard, people depict him as a wizard, so they can at least pretend to imitate him

He is God

walked the earth

In 1978, Columbia historian Morton Smith published Jesus the Magician in which he argued that Jesus was one of many ancient magicians and that his ministry is best understood as wonderworking. He argued that while healing the sick, exorcizing demons, turning water into wine, multiplying bread, and walking on water read to us as signs of Jesus’s divine nature, in his own time he sounded like a magician. If you transplanted Jesus to Hogwarts, it seems, he wouldn’t even stand out.

There are even examples of early Christian artwork that seem to confirm this theory. Stone reliefs on ancient Christian sarcophagi and the walls of the catacombs beneath Rome regularly show Jesus (and sometimes Peter) healing people while holding or even pointing with something that looks very much like a wand. In actual fact, he’s holding a staff and even though we might also associate that with Tolkien’s wizards, it was more likely a way of connecting Jesus to the biblical prophet Moses.

Even if the artistic evidence doesn’t hold up it’s clear that there were those outside of Christianity who also viewed Jesus as a magician. Celsus, a Roman philosopher and critic of Christianity, said that Jesus was a magician who had learned his trade in Egypt. Dr. Shaily Patel, a professor of early Christianity at Virginia Tech and specialist in ancient magic, told the Daily Beast that Christians spent a lot of time defending themselves against these claims. Origen, the third century head of a kind of Christian university in Alexandria, “spilled a lot of ink talking about how Jesus’ wondrous deeds weren’t magic because they were aimed at things like moral reformation and salvation instead of the sorts of parlor trickery displayed by marketplace sorcerers.”

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People got healed just by touching His clothes without warning.
Be careful not to attribute the work of the Holy Spirit with that of the devil. You don't want to mistakenly perform the unforgivable sin.

He turned lemons into lemonade!

No, when you're the Son of God (God in the flesh), you don't need to pretend to be a wizard or anything else.

He is our Savior and will return to us - I pray it is soon.

He made himself? Nah...the creator made him. Jesus was not first and will not be the last. All things repeat.