"Those Bible stories about instant healing are probably exaggerated over time."
How it sounds in your head: You've played telephone—stories get embellished. Maybe Jesus helped some sick people feel better and it got blown up into 'walking on water' over decades of retelling. The supernatural stuff feels like ancient mythology.
"For we did not follow cunningly devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of His majesty."
-- 2 Peter 1:16Source: Historical criticism and liberal theology that treats Scripture as human mythology rather than divine revelation
You know how stories get exaggerated on social media within hours. Ancient oral cultures had even more time to embellish, so the miracle accounts seem like legend built on smaller truths.
A man born blind from birth—never saw anything his entire life, incurable condition—received mud and spit from Jesus, washed, and came back SEEING. The Pharisees interrogated him, his parents, everyone trying to debunk it, but the man just said 'I was blind, now I see.'
I REFUSE the lie that biblical miracles are exaggerated myths. IT IS WRITTEN that the apostles were EYEWITNESSES, not following fables—they saw with their own eyes and died rather than recant. I trust the testimony of men who had nothing to gain and everything to lose. The BARAK blessing that protected Jacob even when he DECEIVED protects the integrity of Scripture even when skeptics attack. IT IS WRITTEN that all Scripture is God-breathed—not human embellishment but divine revelation. I stand on the FULL trustworthiness of every miracle recorded.
The Father is running toward you with the SAME miracle-working power the eyewitnesses documented—not diluted legends but actual historical events that demonstrate His unchanging nature. He's prepared the ring of authority and robe of identity so you can walk in FULL confidence that every promise is YES and AMEN.