So, I’ve been looking at ancient Roman pagan arguments against Christianity to see their perspective and one argument I find interesting is their response to Jesus’s miracles.

Instead of trying to deny or disprove them, they just insisted that Jesus’s miracles were nothing special by bringing up other figures who supposedly did similar things like Apollonius, Apuleius, and Vespasian and said “are these people too the son of god because they also did these things”? They also claimed that Jesus learned how to do these things during his youth in Egypt because supposedly Egyptians knew how to do them.

>>509225221 (OP)
I’m not surprised that this was their argument considering people in the ancient world genuinely believed magic was real. Some examples being
>There literally being a Greek goddess of magic called Hecate
>Ancient Greek writers claiming that Magi, the priests of the Zoroastrian religion were literally wizards (fun fact, “magi” is also where we get modern English words like “magic, “magician”, and “mage” from)
>Roman emperor Augustus apparently trying to outlaw witchcraft
>Egyptian priests supposedly possessing magic and esoteric wisdom