However, if God exists, He created the natural laws, so it should be not a problem for Him to maneuver beyond or outside these laws, nor can He be restrained by these laws. Jesus used miracles as signs to his credentials while the Son of God. Without miracles it will be exceptionally difficult to trust His claims.   a course in miracles    As John wrote in John 20:30-31:"Jesus'disciples saw Him do many more other miraculous signs besides the people recorded in this book. But they are written so you may genuinely believe that Jesus may be the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing in Him you can have life."Observe that the miracles of Jesus not only showed His power over nature, but additionally revealed His approach to ministry: helping others, talking to authority, and connecting with people. The keyword is compassion.Virtually all His miracles were driven by compassion. He healed those who sought His help. He raised the dead to comfort grieving families. He quieted storms to calm the fears of His friends. He fed multitudes to avert their hunger. Don't fail to realize that Jesus never performed magic for His own benefit or gain. The miracles aided others, not Him. On five occasions Jesus performed magic as an indication solely for the disciples: walking on water; cursing of the fig tree; both miraculous catches of fish by the disciples; and the coin for the temple tax. All other miracles sprang from compassion for individuals around Him. The New Testament gospels record thirty-five miracles. Only one miracle (the feeding of the five thousand) is described in every gospel. About half of the miracles are recorded in two or more of the gospels. Needlessly to say, quite a few, eleven actually, are shared between all of the synoptic gospels (Matthew, Mark and Luke), but only seven are recorded in mere two of the three synoptic accounts. Two miracles in John also appear in more than one of the synoptic gospels. Matthew has three unique miracles, Mark has two, while Luke and John each record six.

This distribution yet again demonstrates Matthew, Mark, and Luke are personal testimonies. Even Mark, the gospel "copied" by Matthew and Luke, has two miracles not mentioned in one other two. Why are they omitted if Matthew and Luke leaned on Mark as their primary source because the synoptic theory claims?

The healing miracles are easy targets for critics. Many simply insist that the healed person wasn't ill, anyone might be "self-healed" (the "power of positive thinking") or there could even have already been a form of hypnosis and other "magic." Obviously our ancestors did not have our knowledge of science, but they were not stupid either! Even a primary century uneducated Jew could distinguish between a magician's trick and a real miracle. They'd have identified a phony healing. The healed people were not selected from the audience willingly participating in a performance. These were locals, known by town for their handicaps, perhaps long-term blindness or injury. Resurrecting someone moments after his death indicate he had not actually died. Lazarus, however, was in the grave four days (John 11:39: "'But, Lord,' said Martha, the sister of the dead man,'by now there is a poor odor, for he's been there four days.' "), so it's possible to hardly argue that "he wasn't really dead." Still, from an evidence perspective, probably the most awesome confirmations of Jesus'deity are the type miracles. There's just no explanation for walking on water, calming a storm, feeding huge crowds from a single lunch box, or turning water into wine. Such events are real miracles and they show Jesus'divine power. Keep in mind that such miracles have not been claimed by other professed miracle workers. Only Jesus has displayed such power. Look closely at the nature miracles and probe them for the characteristics for a genuine miracle. We learn: