"Those healing stories are exaggerated. People back then were superstitious and gullible."
How it sounds in your head: You read about someone being raised from the dead and your brain automatically thinks 'probably just in a coma' or 'ancient people didn't know science.' Your science teacher explains everything naturally, and you start wondering if the Bible writers just didn't understand medicine. It feels safer to believe in a God who inspires good morals than one who actually breaks physical laws.
"Now a certain woman had a flow of blood for twelve years, and had suffered many things from many physicians. She had spent all that she had and was no better, but rather grew worse. When she heard about Jesus, she came behind Him in the crowd and touched His garment. For she said, 'If only I may touch His clothes, I shall be made well.' Immediately the fountain of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of the affliction."
-- Mark 5:25-29Source: Western rationalism and scientific materialism teaching that anything supernatural must be explained away or dismissed as primitive ignorance.
You're being trained in school to trust the scientific method above everything, and miracles seem to violate what you're learning about how the world works. No one you know personally has experienced an undeniable miracle, so the Bible stories feel like ancient exaggerations from a less educated time.
This man was born blind—his neighbors, the Pharisees, and even his own parents were interrogated to verify he'd been genuinely blind from birth. The authorities tried EVERYTHING to disprove the miracle, interviewing witnesses multiple times, but couldn't deny it—one minute blind from birth, the next seeing perfectly with zero medical intervention.
I REFUSE the lie that biblical miracles are exaggerated myths. IT IS WRITTEN that the woman with the issue of blood had seen many physicians and spent everything—these were documented medical cases with eyewitnesses. God didn't choose to work through the gullible; He chose the skeptical Pharisees' generation and STILL did undeniable miracles they couldn't explain away. I am blessed with the Abraham blessing—the barak that produced miracles that pagan kings couldn't deny or stop. IT IS WRITTEN in Acts 4:16 that even Jesus' enemies said 'a notable miracle has been done'—they couldn't refute it. I expect undeniable miracles in my life because God doesn't need my belief system to be correct; He just needs me to be connected to the Vine.
Your Father isn't intimidated by your science classes or your doubt—He's the one who created the physical laws you're learning about, and He steps outside them whenever He wants to show His love. He's not waiting for you to resolve the tension between faith and reason; He's already moving in your body with the same power that made the skeptical Pharisees admit 'a notable miracle has been done.'