> And TBH,the story of Jesus sounds man made.Jesus is everything man wished he could > be,sin free,the son of a God,has magical powers etc...
I get the impression that a lot of what was written ~could~ have been based on someones life. The only real hangup to plausibility would be the miracles. I feel that a lot of those could be truth through ignorant eyes. Maybe Jesus was just an early version of Tony Robbins or something.
Take "Water into Wine". Weddings at that time lasted for days, and the wine-making skills probably weren't as honed as they are today. They'd probably have plenty of pomace at the bottom of the wine barrels to use as mash and distill up some decent moonshine in an hour or three. All it would take is one person who didn't understanding the process of wine making or distillation to record that as a miracle.
Most of the other miracles are healings, short of the bread 'n fish one. Healing 'miracles' happen all the time...Can't be that hard to do...