Weren't the miracles of Jesus magic stories made up later?

🔥The question: “How can anyone in a scientific age believe stories about curing disease and walking on water?”

🛡️The Church's answer: The Gospels testify to the miracles as real acts showing that the Kingdom of God has come near and that Jesus confronts sin, sickness, evil, and death. That does not mean every astonishing claim has to be believed uncritically; natural explanations and the evidence can be examined. But the mere fact that science studies the regularities of nature cannot reduce to zero in advance the possibility that the Creator acts in a particular way within history.

🧐If they press further: “If I believe in miracles, can I refuse treatment?” — No. The healings of Jesus are no permit to blame a sick person or to disregard medicine. When you are ill, get help from your guardians and from medical staff; prayer is not a transaction that replaces treatment but faith that stays with the patient.

✨In one sentence: “The miracles of Jesus are not a magical explanation used in place of science but signs that show the Kingdom of God, and the Church examines the testimony and believes in these particular acts.”