Miracles Without Faith: Series Introduction

 


 

Introduction

There is a well-known movie that follows the story of a “Faith Healer” and his entourage, going from town to town, preaching, teaching, and “healing” people. The whole of it is a huge scam and they show how these “miracles” are being done.

At a pivotal moment in the film, an actual crippled boy; one befriended by the preacher, comes onstage to be healed. The preacher knows he’s a fraud and is unable to do it. Not sure what else to do, he points out the local sheriff in the audience; one who’s unto his fakery, and states that since this man lacks faith, the healing won’t happen.

The scene concludes when the crippled boy does become healed but without the preacher’s help. As the movie closes, we see the preacher abandoned everything he built to go straight.

In our previous series of articles, we’ve looked at miracles in scripture and the fact that they have ceased. Contrary to what some believe that they continue even today. These “Faith Healers” will use the exit strategy of siting a lack of faith if a miracle does not take place.

In this new series of articles, we are going to look at several miracles that took place, both in the Old Testament and the New Testament in which no faith was present when the miracle occurred. There was faith afterwards, developed by what was witnessed but, at the time, it was not there.

 

Believing is Seeing

When Jesus appeared to His disciples a second time, Thomas was with them and this conversation occurred, And after eight days His disciples were again inside, and Thomas with them. Jesus came, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, “Peace to you!” Then He said to Thomas, “Reach your finger here, and look at My hands; and reach your hand here, and put it into My side. Do not be unbelieving, but believing.” And Thomas answered and said to Him, “My Lord and my God!” Jesus said to him, “Thomas, because you have seen Me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed” (John 20:26-29).

The highlighted part is directed to us, even today. We do not need miracles to happen before we believe in God, Jesus, and the bible.


Conclusion

As the apostle Paul wrote, So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God (Romans 10:17). We believe in miracles because of the what the scriptures teach. We don’t need them today because we have the complete bible to help us to learn and understand (1 Cor. 13:8-10; Jas. 1:25; 2 Tim. 3:16-17).

Some miracles happened in scripture when faith wasn’t present. Faith is not needed for miracles to occur. We’ll look at these examples in our next few articles.

 

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