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Miracles Of Jesus Research Paper

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The miracles of Jesus Christ are integral to Christianity. Without Jesus’ miracles, Christianity is reduced to a fairy tale, and Jesus is reduced into being just a magic man who walked the earth thousands of years ago performing great acts to amuse and bewilder an audience. According to Mark 1:15, Jesus was not an entertainer, nor a magician, being the Son of the Living God, Jesus Christ performed miracles to announce to the Israelites that the Kingdom, prophesied in the Old Testament, had indeed come (Wiersbe, 2007). Thus, Jesus’ miracles were the signs of the Messiah (Isaiah 29:18-19) who would have dominion over the realms of nature, disease, demons, and even death (Wiersbe, 2007). Although Christ’s miracles would astound and stupefy …show more content…

As a consequence of failing to cast out a demon from a boy in Matthew 17:20, the apostles came to Jesus in private to ask why; thus, Jesus explanation to the apostles centered on the failure to have faith, and misplaced authority conferred to the apostles by Christ in a previous command (Pentecost, 1981). Hence, the apostles were unable to cast out the demon as a result of a dependence on previous experiences, rather than the personhood of Christ (Pentecost, 1981, p. 261). Thus, Jesus’ lesson to the apostles, through this miracle, focused on the dependence of God to perform the miracle through faith; furthermore, Jesus teaching also revealed that faith, not position, would allow the apostles to carry on Jesus’ ministry in the days ahead (Pentecost, 1981). While Jesus demonstrated great power over the realms of nature and demons, Jesus also revealed authority over physical ailments such as blindness; however, in the case of the blind man in John 9:1-12, Jesus not only healed the blind man but also revealed to the apostles, and to the nation of Israel, the spiritual blindness that Jesus had come to remove (Pentecost, …show more content…

Thus, after witnessing the great catch, and hearing Jesus command to Peter, James and John, who were also with Peter, left everything behind to follow Jesus (Collins, 2007). Although this miracle was performed early in Jesus ministry, the great catch taught the apostles obedience while revealing the characteristics of God’s sovereignty and omnipotence (Collins,

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