Why proving some of Jesus' miracles is not enough
As a miracle demands that we back it up with solid evidence, a holy prophet or
holy book that reports many miracles but gives no evidence even for just a few
of them shows it is not to be taken as the same as God's word.
The Church admits that it cannot conclusively prove every miracle reported of
Jesus in the Bible or outside of it when you consider every miracle by itself.
The Church for example has only the word of the gospel of John that Jesus turned
water into wine at Cana. The gospels say that Jesus even concealed some of his
miracles like when he warned nobody to tell that he raised the daughter of
Jairus from the dead. If Jesus does ten miracles and you can verify them all but
the last then you can’t believe in the last one. You must consider him a liar if
he asks you to believe in it and of course he does for in the John gospel he
tells skeptics to believe in his works if they can’t believe in him. If a man
commits ten murders and you can only prove he committed nine of them you are not
permitted to believe he committed the odd one out. You need better evidence for
miracles than murders for miracles are stranger and more unusual and very
serious stuff. To claim a miracle happened is such a serious claim that
naturally the evidence has to be very serious as in strong and good and
convincing and every individual miracle requires it. You can’t say the
resurrection of Jesus is provable so the other miracles of Jesus must have
happened as well for Jesus rose to prove his teachings and claims and miracles
to be real. Bearing in mind that we need very strong evidence the stranger or
more unlikely a claim is this is unacceptable. Every miracle is so serious so it
has to be checked out on its own. Christians know that miracles are very serious
for they as good as suspend or change natural law and you need near if not
actually impossible evidence to believe in them. Imagine the evidence you would
need to justify believing in the tooth fairy – a miraculous being. A miracle
that doesn’t have extraordinary evidence backing it up isn’t worth talking
about. The failure of the Christians to prove every individual miracle in the
gospel accounts and Jesus’ failure to prove the miracles reported by God in the
Old Testament, proves that the miracles never truly happened. He was a false
messenger. It is blasphemy against God and reason to say that they did prove
them. A God who does miracles should be able to preserve the proof for them. If
Jesus does ten miracles to prove he is from God and you can only prove nine of
them then the one that can’t be proved proves that whatever did the miracles it
was not God so we can dismiss Jesus from our minds with a clear conscience. One
failed proof proves that the resurrection even if supernatural was not a miracle
from God.