Miracles were never meant as proof of anything. Reading in a response to Satan about rocks being made into bread: Jesus finds something evil in the temptation to use a strength in order to prove himself, eat something, forget this 40 days business (which was considered loopy by more than one person), and submit to a temptation that has no contribution to love or survival. Jesus had faith that he could do with the things he had been given, out in the desert. Chiefmost in the mind of the author is the fact that Jesus refused to turn rock into bread. Just because he can did not mean he should, let alone at the request for a spectacle by a demon. Forget pride. The man had dignity... something which, as far as I can see, no man really has in the entirety of his actions. That can not possibly be possible...unless. And my dear friends, that is the heart of the Christian church. The unless. "Can I be the man with the most dignity?", the question drives some men who seek to save their souls through perfection. We may as well shout it from rooftops, we still won't get an answer. Or worse, an answer will come in the form of a profound embarrassment. Something which will bewilder your once system of values with a resounding, "NO!"
What I mean is: dignity's good and admirable, but society, law, and the unconscious are, sadly, not measured by dignity. They are measured in Luck, Secrecy, and Ambition. Why must we find Jesus not only to be the Son of God, but necessarily to be the Son of God, performing only the kinds of miracles which have significance to human welfare in their entirety, arrighting Nature to be always God's and to show that the Nature is good? Not all men are well-wishing. Those are men against the nature of man, or misinformed.
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