To initiate our walk with God a miracle may be used, but what is a miracle to God? Jesus also made this clear to me in these verses:
"For whether is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and walk?
But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (then saith he to the sick of the palsy,) Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house.
And he arose, and departed to his house." Matt 9:5-7
I don't emphasize too much what men would classify as miracles because for God all things are possible. Once a person recognizes that why would he stress the physically apparent miracle? I don't want to diminish its importance, but God wants us to be like Him, it for Him how important is it, really? What is God really like?
Buddha is only a name I have heard and about whom I know little so I cannot make the comparison. What you are meaning to say, I guess, is that Jesus would be just another man without the miracles. But consider John the Baptist who never performed, nor was he used to perform, what men would usually called a miracle. Yet how highly do we usually esteem John among men? And … Jesus said this of John:
"Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he." matt 11:11
John was a great man according to Jesus, but John did not bring Life. The lack of discernible miracles is not the difference for in the OT we see miracles through Elijah and Elisha and others. Those prophets brought a message for God and worked the works of God, including miracles, but they did not bring Life either.
Jesus said that he was Life. Since I really had my own "road to Damascus" experience my own testimonies which are many declare to me what Life really is. It is not what those people who have no part of God but walk around in the flesh. Those are the real zombies. They are dead as Adam and Eve were dead after they disobeyed God.
Even raising a man of flesh from physical death was NOT his greatest miracle. From a fleshly point of view it certainly may seem so, but would not bringing the Life men that Adam and Eve lost with their disobedience be a greater miracle? The physical resurrection of Lazarus and others were simply types of shadows of the real Resurrection, were they not?
No, it is not fair to say that, because it leans too much on the hypothetical instead of upon that which God sent for people through His Son. We could hypothesize that things would have been different if Adam and Eve had not eaten of the forbidden tree and went instead directly to the Tree of Life and partook of that. God has and has had a plan always, but how much of it do we really understand?
Can we or should we hypothesize as what would have been the result for mankind without the Resurrection of Jesus? That Resurrection was included always in God's Plan. Our hypothesis as what would have happened with the Resurrection would be foolishness because the only One capable of revising God's Plan would be God Himself, the only One understood and understand the Plan completely.
Lol. First Communion, Confirmation, Religious Instruction every Tuesday after school...St. Joseph tables galore, lol...and food??!!!??? Oh yes...yum. I never learned much except for Jesus died for our sins. Back then I did not understand a thing said in Mass and there was no real teaching. My mom and dad decided to attend a Lutheran Church when I was around 13 or 14. I was shocked when I went for the 1st time as I thought every church was like the CC. I did eventually leave this Luthern Church and started to attend an Assemblies of God Church for about 4 years. Moved from that area and started with another and am with them today, love, love, love it there and, always think about their messages...of which I mostly agree ♥
