People starve to death in Kenya while fasting 'to meet Jesus'

[Frankj]

Faith, as it is exercised in the material world, is based on previous experiences (either yours or of the majority of other people). You trust chairs to support you because you know that most of the time chairs support people. Sure, there are exceptions, there are weak or broken or faulty chairs in this world that break when you sit on them. But the exceptions are the minority. With God, the exceptions are the majority.

Healing miracles are, in fact, so rare, that there cannot even be done an experiment to verify their existence. If that were the case for any other phenomenon in the material world, we would simply not have faith in said phenomenon. If medication worked as unfrequently as Christian miracles happen, no one would trust medication either.

What you are talking about is where people have actually put their faith.

Jesus talked directly of what we are like when and what we can do when we put out faith where it belongs, in God instead of in the world and its ways, and his life was testimony to such.

Miracles today are rare not because, as most Christians like to explain it away, because the age of miracles has passed but because the age of faith has passed.

When you talk of doing an experiment to verify something you are just saying that you have put your faith in experimental verification, not directly in God. You, along with almost all of the world, have put your faith in science and worldly philosophies ahead of true faith in God and the power of creation he made in you as being his image.

Jesus said seek and you will find, meditate on the full implications of that.