re: What miracles would Jesus need to do today to show His divinity?

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Jesus should have known, he did know, that man was not strong enough to freely follow the teachings of Christ. Man is rebellious and easily gives in to vice.

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Right. The whole business is not that God needs to show who he is. He knows that and in our heart of hearts we do too. Like you say, he knows we're fallen, lapsed, from our original wholesome relationship with him.

Problem is, we don't know how bad we've fallen and the extent of the lapse. Oh, we say we do but we don't really mean it. We can do it all ourselves.

So we get the 10 Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount and God says have at it, go for it, do it on your own, and if you get it right, you get the prize, with me, in Paradise, forever. But you gotta do it all perfectly day in, day out, not just physically and outwardly, but in your mind, in your heart, in your soul, with all that's in you, perfectly, from now till the day I call you to heaven when you die. Deal?

Nobody succeeds, ever. That failure of our attempts to obey and please God through our own self righteous efforts is intended to show us our helplessness and our need for God's mercy. His son is our salvation and solution.

St. Paul wrote that the Law was a taskmaster to lead us to Christ. We are only accepted by and acceptable to God by relying on Jesus and his death and resurrection, relying on him like your overboard in a hurricane. That kind of relying is what the Bible means when it tells us to "believe". Nothing more, nothing less.