Do you think when Jesus turned water into wine, he didn't actually do anything except call the water "wine"?

Question

and nobody had the guts to contradict him? Although I will not contest that it was possible there may have also been some hand waving and murmuring of magic words for show.

Consider that most if not everything known about Jesus was written by his close male "friends".

Exactly....

Answer 1

Heaven

blissful upper realm or state entered after death; in Western monotheistic religions it is the place where the just see God face to face (sometimes called the beatific vision). In Judaism, heaven is pictured as the abode of God to which he ultimately welcomes the righteous and faithful. Many Christians believe that after the general resurrection the body of a Christian will be glorified and reunited forever with the soul in heaven. The Roman Catholic church teaches that before entering heaven many souls must pass through purgatory to be made ready. Much of the conventional imagery of the Christian heaven—e.g., golden streets—is based on the Book of Revelation. In Islam, the Qur'an describes heaven in graphically idyllic terms, replete with fleshly delights; but Islam also has a strong mystical tradition which places these heavenly delights in the context of the ecstatic awareness of God. In Zoroastrianism, the souls of the deceased must pass over the Bridge of the Requiter, which widens to allow easy passage for the good, who enter a kingdom of joy and light. In both Hinduism and Buddhism, existence is considered cyclical, making the rewards and pleasures of heaven a desirable but temporary experience; the higher objective is often conceived as a release from any form of rebirth, whether in heaven or on earth.


Hell

Abode of evildoers after death, or the state of existence of souls damned to punishment after death. Most ancient religions included the concept of a place that divided the good from the evil or the living from the dead (e.g., the gloomy subterranean realm of Hades in Greek religion, or the cold and dark underworld of Nilfheim or Hel in Norse mythology). The view that hell is the final dwelling place of the damned after a last judgment is held by Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The Jewish concept of Gehenna as an infernal region of punishment for the wicked was the basis for the Christian vision of hell as the fiery domain of Satan and his evil angels and a place of punishment for those who die without repenting of their sins. In Hinduism hell is only one stage in the career of the soul as it passes through the phases of reincarnation. The schools of Buddhism have varying conceptions of hell, usually entailing some kind of punishment or purgatory. In Jainism, hell is a purgatory in which sinners are tormented by demons until the evil of their lives has been exhausted.

Answer 2

Turning Water into Wine

On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus' mother was there, and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. When the wine was gone, Jesus' mother said to him, "They have no more wine."

"Dear woman, why do you involve me?" Jesus replied. "My time has not yet come." His mother said to the servants, "Do whatever he tells you." Nearby stood six stone water jars, the kind used by the Jews for ceremonial washing, each holding from twenty to thirty gallons.

Jesus said to the servants, "Fill the jars with water"; so they filled them to the brim. Then he told them, "Now draw some out and take it to the master of the banquet." They did so, and the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into wine. He did not realize where it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the water knew.

Then he called the bridegroom aside and said, "Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink; but you have saved the best till now." The Bible-John 2:1-10

The Marriage at Cana is an event reported by the Gospel of John but not by any of the Synoptic Gospels. John reports that Jesus was attending a wedding in Cana with his disciples for the Jewish rite of purification.

My words:
The wine was shared at the wedding witnessed by Jesus's disciples
I believe this is enough evidence.

He was blessed by God to preform these miracles.

Answer 3

Any vintner can and does by definition turn water into wine without magic. I don't see any reason to believe any of the stories of the Bible. They are riddled with contradictions, impossibilities and absurd amounts of cruelty. The stories were made up to inspire belief and this is supported by the evidence that believers never take the time to look through. Books like "The Homeric Epics and the Gospel of Mark" by Dennis MacDonald lays bare the evidence that Mark was a deliberate work of fiction and the other gospels are clearly derived from Mark, so the stain of fiction poisons them as well. That leaves you with Paul's letters and they make no mention of any of the miracles and don't even establish that Jesus lived on Earth. DON'T BELIEVE ME! GO READ IT YOURSELF.

Answer 4

Well, actually the guests were confused regarding the fact that the hoast had saved the best wine for last, because it was (and maybe still is) the custom to serve the goo wine first and then, when everybody is drunk bring the bad wine. But people noticed exactly the contrary here. And he didn't wave his hands or murmus magic words. He simply turned the water into wine

Answer 5

John 2:9-10 and the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into wine. He did not realize where it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the water knew. Then he called the bride groom aside and said, "Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink: but you have saved the best till now."

Answer 6

What tickles me is the fact that people always zero in on this miracle and not the others. Why do so many people shy away from the healings, people being brought back to life and all the others when they are making fun of Jesus. I think it is a real hoot that Jesus' first miracle was at a party and he helped keep it going. Now isn't that a little slap in the face to all those out there that make fun of christians for being such drags that never have any fun.

Answer 7

Jesus did turn water into to wine if you've read you'd know that he never sinned so telling them that the water was wine and it wasn't true would be a lie, causing him to sin.

Answer 8

the funny thing is that no one ever stops to think about how easy it is to convince a room full of ALREADY drunk people anything. Speaking as a former bartender, if you serve someone who has been drinking all night a watered down drink, 99 times out of 100 they aren't going to know the difference.

Answer 9

He did a big presentation with smoke and mirrors and had Vanna White take samples of the first batch of MD 2020 for verification.

Answer 10

Right.. Because nobody had the nerve to hang him on the cross for nothing-- instead of a habitual murderer. So I can see where his peers would be afraid to contradict him.