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"textContent": "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 [...]",
"title": "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."
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