If unbelievers are sceptical about miracles
believers in God should be more sceptical
Miracles are events like magic. Religion says God does them. God makes all
things out of nothing so he can do them. Making things out of nothing is a
miracle.
Miracle believers like the though that some power greater than evil can change
nature and make prophets speak his message and raise the dead and do immediate
and complete healings.
Most believers in religions of miracles are not sceptical enough. Sceptical as
in looking for and weighing the evidence is a virtue.
And if there is a creator God who does miracles we have to be more sceptical
about miracles not less. A God of truth will be a God who gives you the gift of
evidence and wants to save you from men who imagine their word is the word of
God. That demands a very high standard of investigation. And as religion is full
of the blind leading the blind you have to do the work yourself and assess it
yourself and avoid hearsay. Most philosophers who say miracles might happen do
say that you need to see them yourself and have them carefully assessed by
experts before believing. The reason is that if God is trying to say something
through a miracle and God comes first then utmost caution must be exercised. And
you don't want to encourage people who crave wonders and excitement and who
merely foment and enable superstition and credulity. Another reason is that if a
miracle does not call for a minute and cautious examination before it can be
believed then nothing does. This outlook calls for scepticism towards the gospel
miracles for they are based too much on hearsay and there is no evidence that
anybody mentioned in the gospels as a witness to Jesus' miracles knew what was
written about them.