Religious leaders

Many different religious leaders and founder have claimed a certain supernatural calling or power, whether it be equality with God or claim to be a prophet from God. From traditional religious founders like Jesus (though a bit more secretively) and Muhammad to cult leaders like David Koresh. And yet orthodox Christians believe that claims of Jesus are true, whereas the claims of other religious leaders are false. And why did the Christian religion spread like a wild fire in the early years while under severe persecution and without a central religious figure physically present with them to guide them (like Muhammad initially with Islam)?

I can not speak of the cognitions of all Christians as to why they accept Jesus' claims over others, nor can I give all the sociological factors to explain the resiliency of the early Christians. However, the one thing that defines Jesus is not just His miracles, though they would certainly attest to Him. But rather the miracle that Christ received, the resurrection. Such a momentous event that could not be humanly explained in that day or presently (witnessed by rejection of the resurrection by some because it isn't scientifically viable) would attest to Jesus' claims better than a million miracles or a millions followers.

Now certainly then, this calls into question the historicity of the resurrection, of which I am not going to address here. But with few exceptions, those who disbelieve the resurrection will not believe by the evidence I might provide, and likewise most of those who believe will not cease to believe by the evidence present by someone who does not believe in the resurrection. So while the resurrection would attest to the claims of Christ generally only going to be accepted as proof for those who do believe, just like personal experience.

And what of the claims of other religious leaders? Do we automatically call them liars? I can not judge the nature of other claims of divinity or divine calling, but it would not be unlikely in my mind for some religious leaders to have had hallucinations (the source of which I will not speculate), so to them it was real. And yet one might claim that of Jesus, but what are the odds of a mentally disordered person with divine claims playing the central role of the greatest act in human history, if the resurrection is true?