Another View of Miracles and 1Cor. 13

Let’s open our minds and Bibles. I know that miracles have ceased, and in this article will do my best to prove it logically. I will first CORRECTLY define a miracle. A miracle is anything that God does that man cannot do AND is instantaneous. Many people will be healed in our time, and doctors (who, by the way, don’t know everything) will not know why. The point still remains that the person will heal slowly and gradually, and may still have serious problems for the rest of there, potentially short, life. I will use 1Cor. 13 for my simple, yet effective argument on why miracles have ceased. Some people speak of the “perfect” in 1Cor. 13 being heaven and they seem to know for a FACT that it is not the complete canonized scriptures. Well, it is. Most people who want to hold on to miracles will say that the “perfect” is Jesus or heaven, so that the miracles they want to happen will stay with them. There is more than one problem with this, but there is only one that I will, and need, to use. If, hypothetically speaking, the word “perfect” was referring to heaven, then it’s pronoun (perfect) would, by the koine Greek rules, have to agree with whatever word to which it was making reference. In other words, if the word “perfect” was speaking of heaven it would have to be in the masculine gender, because heaven is always masculine. That’s not what it used though. For these people to be correct in their argument, then the word perfect would have to be “ho teleios” (masculine form) rather than what it does say: “to teleion” (neuter). There’s that. Then they say, “Well, if it (perfect) is the Bible then that means that Paul never had complete knowledge!” What’s so hard to believe about that? Jesus didn’t even know everything (Mr. 13:32)! In a sense though, we know “everything” as far as what we need. Peter said this in 2Pt. 1:3 when he said “all things”. So, when the Bible was complete, miracles had already ceased (one, because it IS implied that the apostles had to lay their hands on someone for them to receive the ability to do miracles, and then those people couldn’t pass the power on. Read Acts 8 sometime), and if they hadn’t ceased then, then they did when the Bible was finished because the things written in it are all that we need to believe. Notice that I never once said in this perfectly logical article that God has ceased to work. He still works in our lives, but in this day and age, He does not do it through the miraculous.