What Are Miracles...

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Mothers survive cancer…teenagers get off drugs…kidnapped children are recovered.
While these can be explained away without saying "God did this",

Because they have perfectly natural explanations.

sometimes we have to realize that there is an ultimate good that works through nature and through the people in our lives.

Nah, shit just happens, some of it good, some of bad but most somewhere in the middle.

If people DID walk across water, we would have no choice but to believe. In the past, people believed in demons and dark magic and could attribute miracles to ghost powers. Also, there weren't as many Christians around at the time, making the conversion process harder.
We, on the other hand, surrounded by ministers in a society where the laws of physics are set, would have no choice but to break down and cry out our sins.

I have seen people "walk on water" they were magicians.
If you see something that seems impossible, do not just believe but look for the trick.

Believing would require nothing on our part except having seen or heard about the miracle event

I think you are being naive here, if I heard about something happening that seemed impossible I would want it properly studied.
I would not start singing praises to god and bending at the knee.

In the smaller miracles we see in our lives, God meets us halfway. We are given equal opportunity to believe that there is a God working for us, or that these things happened by chance. And that's why we need faith…God can't carry us all the way.

There are no miracles.
There have never been miracles.
Until someone comes up with verifiable evidence to the contrary that will remain my position.