When your faith healers start prowling hospitals and graveyards, healing the sick and raising the dead, let me know.
What we see in the Bible is that miracles occur frequently for a short time, then are rare for hundreds of years.
BTW - how many dead men have YOU raised to life Jim W N?
RE:What we see in the Bible is that miracles occur frequently for a short time, then are rare for hundreds of years.
There are three times when miracles are in larger numbers.
The Exodus, Jesus’ ministry, and, IIRC, during the time of Isaiah. (There were miracles in between those times, but relatively few in number.)
The purpose of the miracles was to be sign of the holiness and power of the Lord: To free the Israelites, to attest to the ministry of Jesus, and to warn of captivity to come.
I Corinthians 13:8 Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall FAIL; whether there be tongues, they shall CEASE; whether there be [special] knowledge, it shall VANISH away.
That miracles would cease can be inferred from the fact that the only ones who performed miracles were those who were given the special gift of the Holy Spirit. When they died the ability to perform signs, wonders and miracles died with them.
I was dead…
In trespasses and sin.