Well, you make me feel almost "agnostic." Jesus was vexed to be asked to show signs and miracles and I always believed the reason for that was because ignorant people who didn't care enough to read his words or scriptures would tempt him for miracles and wonders. He called them an evil generation.
Think about it: If he came up to me at a water fountain today and declared himself to me, I wouldn't dare ask him for a miracle or a sign.
Of course, he won't come up to me like that, he will come from the sky and all eyes will see him.
Will I argue with you about miracles and signs? No. I don't tend to believe them whereas you are more openminded to believe. The scriptures are enough for me. I find Jesus in there and there is no need of miracles or signs to make me believe.
If that is what you are feeling.....it is not from me my dear friend. The "enemy" will always tempt you with unbelief.
At the time Jesus lived and walked the earth....there were NO Scriptures to read about Him or His miracles.
Those things that He did were written by His Apostles many years AFTER they took place so your point is not really valid my friend.
When reading the Scriptures.....what Jesus did was exactly opposite of what we see today. To Jesus.....the thing most important was His message.
Notice the actual record of events as seen in Mark 1:41-42 after He healed a man with leprocy......
"Jesus sent him away at once with a strong warning:
’see that you don’t tell this to anyone...'".
To our way of thinking, it would seem that Jesus would want everyone to know about the miracle. But Jesus knew that publicity over such miracles might hinder His mission and divert public attention from His message. Mark records that this is exactly what happened. In this man’s excitement over his being miraculously healed, he disobeyed. As a result, Christ had to move His ministry away from the city and into the desert regions.
Mark 1:45......
“As a result, Jesus could no longer enter a town openly but stayed outside in lonely places. Yet the people still came to Him from everywhere.”
Jesus did not want people focusing on the miracles He performed, but rather the message He proclaimed and the death He was going to die. The same is true today. God would rather that we be focused on the healing miracle of salvation through Jesus Christ instead of focusing on other healings and/or miracles.
Be it known to YOU.....YOU or no one else will have the Lord Jesus come to you by a well r a car or a beach or anywhere else.
When we READ the Bible in Acts 1:11 we clearly see the answer to your post as we read..........
"Men of Galilee," they said, "why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same
Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven,
will come back in
the same way
you have seen him go into heaven."
HOW THEN WILL THAT BE SOME MAY ASK???????????
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 .........
"Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope. 14For we believe
that Jesus died and rose
again, and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him. 15According to the LORD's word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left until the coming of the LORD, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. 16
For the LORD himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and
the dead in Christ will rise first. 17After that, we who are still alive and are
left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the LORD in the air. And so we will be with the LORD forever. 18Therefore encourage one another with these words."
