This is the age of science.

We know that miracles do not happen any more. That’s one attitude, but there are others, including the Catholic one. The attitude of the Catholics, of Eastern Orthodoxy and also of some Protestants is that yes, miracles are happening today and have happened throughout the history of Christianity. Some Protestant trends, including fundamentalism and much of evangelicalism, say that miracles don’t happen any more. Secularism says that miracles cannot happen.

Some Catholics have been influenced by the last two positions, but especially secularism. They think that even miracles recorded in the Bible are suspect, and they are quite convinced that today miracles cannot happen today. They say that miracles are pre-scientific. Yes, but they are also fabulous. They happened in the period before modern science, they happened during it, and they will continue to happen when this period is over. The attitude of both these Catholics and the secularists they emulate is truly unscientific. It is not based on conclusions drawn from scientific research into alleged miracles. Go to Lourdes, for example, or any other place of alleged miracles, and you won’t find a single sceptic taking notes and researching people who claim to miraculously healed. They know that after the New Testament period is over, they miracles can’t happen, so why would they bother to check it out? Their arguments look something like this: If Christianity only was just beginning, miracles were used to confirm its authenticity. “They went out and preached everywhere. The Lord helped them and confirmed their words by the signs that accompanied them” (Mk 16:20). But miracles are already unnecessary, for until the death of the last Apostle, Christianity had firmly established. They are no longer necessary for conversion to the faith, for the faith comes through the Bible.

In support of their claim, they quote the following verses: “Jesus did before the eyes of his disciples many other signs which are not, not, written in this book. But these things are written that you may believe that Jesus is Messiah, the Son of God, and that by faith you may have life in his name.” So then faith is of preaching, and preaching by the word of Christ.” (Rom 10:17).
What do these verses prove in reality? The Apostle John described some of Christ’s miracles so that the reader will believe in Christ. This does not mean that there will be no more miracles for future generations. Some people will believe based on what they read. Others need a special incentive that will come through a miracle. A verse from Romans} Is true that faith comes through the word of Christ, but not everyone is for this word in the same way. Some still require additional incentive of a miracle.
Another of the arguments used against miracles today is that the end of miracles was foretold in 1 Corinthians 13:8: “Prophecy shall cease, tongues shall be silent, and knowledge shall pass away.” But this verse speaks first of all of the heaven, where we shall rejoice in the blessed
vision, to see God face to face. Now, down here, “we see only dimly, as in a mirror” (1 Cor 13:12). In heaven, there will be no need of miracles to support faith, because we will know. Secondly, this is the verse chosen as proof of the attitude against miracles in our day, for it speaks of the disappearance of the early forms of prophesying and speaking in tongues. The implication is that such gifts, including miracles, are no longer have come to an end, but this does not follow. Even if prophecy and speaking in tongues disappeared forever in the first century (now we are not discussing whether they have reappeared in our time), their disappearance is not necessarily indicative of miracles. If miracles were necessary to get Christianity off the ground, why shouldn’t they be necessary to sustain it?

The fact remains that the Bible nowhere says that all miracles are ended with the end of New Testament times. Of course, the nor does it say that the miracles will continue until our time. So, as in so many other areas, the Scriptures are silent on this one. Why would, should not? Whether miracles are happening today is a question for scientific investigation, not for conjecture. But the necessary tool is an open and clear mind.