I am not sure how this directly relates to my post, but in any case i do not believe that God has taken a sabbatical rest, and the needed and blessed reality is that Jesus is still showing Himself alive by doing true miracles, from regeneration to many others.
You cannot restrict "true miracles" to restoring life at a command, restoring use of limbs, eyesight, etc. though i believe these happen to a lesser degree, but a miracles is an interference with nature by a supernatural power, I was quite manifestly been healed of a lower hernia i had for years, while others have realized greater miracles.
It is true that fabrications abound (besides or ones that may be best explained by natural causes), as well as demonic miracles, but that is partly because there is a genuine which the devil seeks to imitate. And to disallow God from doing miracles would be to allow the devil to claim supremacy of power.
And while revelation gifts will cease when we see the Lord, (1Jn. 3:2) the Bible does not teach miracles are not needed, nor that the only reason God does them is to testify to His Word, but it is His nature to heal, etc., and He promised His followers would so them, (Mk. 16:20; Jn. 14:12) even if greater works is more in quantity, due to the outpouring of the Spirit of God upon all believers on one hand, and the declension of the church on the other and which i am part of).
This kind of preaching speaks of the difference versus most of the health and wealth type. Healing is not promised for all in every case, but final deliverance is. Thanks be to God in Christ.
[[You cannot restrict “true miracles” to restoring life at a command, restoring use of limbs, eyesight, etc. though i believe these happen to a lesser degree]]
“To a lesser degree’? So Christ has weakened i nHis miracle workign power? Not tryign to be snide or anything- but of course we can test whether God is doing true miracles today or not- and of course we can use the same criteria for TRUE miracles that was applied during Christ’s tiome and before- Christ’s miracles wer such that NOONE could question that a TRUE miracle had happened- and Christ’s miracles were very specifically Jewish oriented so that NO Jew coudl Deny He was the Messiah- and the apostle’s miracles were meant for the same purposes- to prove to the Jews that Christ was who He said He was and that through Christ- they were empowered to perform those same Types of TRUE miracles
[[And to disallow God from doing miracles would be to allow the devil to claim supremacy of power.]]
I never disallowed God anyhting- He is perfectly able to do TRUE mriacles anytime He chooses- and it’;s obvious He has ceased with these SUPERNATURAL TRUE miracles for the tiem being
When Christ performed His miracles- they were absolutely without question TRUE miracles- not somethign hidden liek a sore back, or supposed headaches- His miracles were for show for the Jews- they didn’t have to ever wodner “Well, hmmm, that could have been simply a spontanious remission due to the power of sugfgestion- His miracles were frotn and center for all to witness and know without a shadow of a doubt that soemthign supernatural had just taken place
a miracle- true miracle, is not just an interference with nature- it’s a compelte suspension of nature- an override of nature- it is somethign that can not happen on it’;s own- it MUST be performed by someoen endowed with supernatural powers-
I don’t know your hernia case, but hernias are known to spontaniously heal on their own- many diseases thought ‘uncurable’ also go into compelte remission on their own- You see what I’m gettign at here? When some diseases are claimed to be ‘healed supernaturally’ there is doubt- It ‘could have been’ purely natural causes that we don’t udnerstand’ that caused the remission- When Christ and the apostles did TRUE miracles, there was no question as to what just happened- no ambiguity, no doubt- the peopel knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that htey just wiontessed a TRUE supernatural miracle- because they witnessed with hteir own eyes thigns that superceeded and overruled natural cuasation