"If God still healed miraculously, we'd see amputees grow limbs. Since we don't, it proves healing ended."
How it sounds in your head: I've never seen an undeniable creative miracle—a missing limb restored, a Down syndrome child healed. If God really healed today, why doesn't He do the impossible things that would silence all doubt?
"But Jesus looked at them and said to them, 'With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.'"
-- Matthew 19:26Enemy's demand that God perform on command to satisfy skepticism, making unbelief the standard God must overcome rather than faith the substance of things hoped for.
He's never personally witnessed a verified creative miracle, and atheists use this argument constantly. The absence of these 'headline miracles' makes gradual healing through medicine feel more honest than claiming supernatural power.
Peter cut off Malchus' ear with a sword—completely severed, gone, blood pouring. Jesus touched the wound and RESTORED it—instant creative miracle, regrowing tissue and cartilage in one touch, in front of hostile witnesses.
I REFUSE the lie that God must prove Himself to skeptics with headline miracles. IT IS WRITTEN: with God ALL things are possible—not 'some things' or 'believable things,' but ALL. Jesus regrew Malchus' severed ear instantly. That same creative power lives in me through the Holy Spirit. I am Abraham's seed under the BARAK blessing—a covenant that defied natural law when Sarah's dead womb birthed nations. IT IS WRITTEN: by His stripes I WAS healed. Past tense. Finished. My faith doesn't depend on what I've seen; it depends on what HE said.
The Father isn't withholding spectacular miracles to punish a skeptical generation—He's the Father who killed the fattened calf He'd been PREPARING, who had the robe READY, who'd been watching the road for the son who squandered everything. He's not stingy with power; He's LAVISH with love, and His arm is not shortened.