It’s kinda funny to think that instead of denying Jesus’ miracles, pagan critics of Christianity in antiquity often claimed he was a wizard who learnt his magic in Egypt and therefore his miracles didn’t prove divinity.

As for why this was their response to Jesus’ miracles, well remember that people in the ancient world were incredibly superstitious and believed magic was a real and active force in the world, even the most rational philosophers and intellectuals fully believed in practices that would be considered superstitious today. The Roman emperor Augustus literally [...]