Are miracles a necessary part of the the gospel?

Those who deny miracles are teaching a false gospel.

One view says miracles were performed to give credibility to the good news of Christ; and to testify that His apostles had His authority.

Increasingly however, many have started teaching that miracles are integral to the gospel itself. In other words, if there are no miracles there is no gospel. Those who deny miracles are teaching a false gospel.

For example, Charles Fox Parham, in A Voice Crying in the Wilderness, writes: "The healing of the sick is as much part of the gospel as telling them of Heaven."—pg. 46

And: " You, dear friends, who are neglecting to teach, preach, and give of your substance to the spread of this gospel—attended with signs, wonders, mighty deeds, divers miracles and the gifts of the Holy Ghost—are in danger of standing in utter condemnation before the judgment bar of God."—Ibid.

Another example is from The Essential Guide to Healing by Bill Johnson and Randy Clark. Clark writes: "For cessationists, the gifts of healing and the working of miracles no longer exist in the sense of someone having these gifts. Their argument is based on their belief that healings and miracles were given to prove correct doctrine and to vindicate the apostles’ ministry as writers of Scripture. If healings and miracles could still happen, then the canon of Scripture would not be closed and new doctrines could be given. This is the basis of cessationism.

The problem with this position is that miracles were not meant primarily as evidence of correct doctrine. Instead they were part of the Gospel, the good news that the Kingdom of God was at hand, that in Jesus’ ministry the Kingdom had been inaugurated and would continue until it was consummated in His Second Coming."—pg. 99

So how 'bout it: Are miraculous signs as much a necessary part of the gospel itself as Jesus dying for our sins and rising from the dead? If we don't preach the continuation of miracles are we preaching a false gospel?

One view says miracles were performed to give credibility to the good news of Christ; and to testify that His apostles had His authority.

Increasingly however, many have started teaching that miracles are integral to the gospel itself. In other words, if there are no miracles there is no gospel. Those who deny miracles are teaching a false gospel.

For example, Charles Fox Parham, in A Voice Crying in the Wilderness, writes: "The healing of the sick is as much part of the gospel as telling them of Heaven."—pg. 46

And: " You, dear friends, who are neglecting to teach, preach, and give of your substance to the spread of this gospel—attended with signs, wonders, mighty deeds, divers miracles and the gifts of the Holy Ghost—are in danger of standing in utter condemnation before the judgment bar of God."—Ibid.

Another example is from The Essential Guide to Healing by Bill Johnson and Randy Clark. Clark writes: "For cessationists, the gifts of healing and the working of miracles no longer exist in the sense of someone having these gifts. Their argument is based on their belief that healings and miracles were given to prove correct doctrine and to vindicate the apostles’ ministry as writers of Scripture. If healings and miracles could still happen, then the canon of Scripture would not be closed and new doctrines could be given. This is the basis of cessationism.

The problem with this position is that miracles were not meant primarily as evidence of correct doctrine. Instead they were part of the Gospel, the good news that the Kingdom of God was at hand, that in Jesus’ ministry the Kingdom had been inaugurated and would continue until it was consummated in His Second Coming."—pg. 99

So how 'bout it: Are miraculous signs as much a necessary part of the gospel itself as Jesus dying for our sins and rising from the dead? If we don't preach the continuation of miracles are we preaching a false gospel?

I think they were back then when the gospel being preached was at it's starting point but for today no

The word of God is a miracle and it is a living word the more you read the more divine it is itself
And having faith and believing is a different hearing and seeing then that of human understanding
Theres a verse about how you should not test God to perform miracles for "proof" or anything like that, But I can't remember the verse
I might be thinking of these verses when the devils testing him
5 Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple,
6 And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
7 Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

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12 For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath.
13 Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
14 And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:
15 For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
16 But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.
17 For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.


5 And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes.
2 And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit,
3 Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains:
4 Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him.
5 And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones.
6 But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him,
7 And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not.
8 For he said unto him, Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit.
9 And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.
10 And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country.
11 Now there was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine feeding.
12 And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.
13 And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea, (they were about two thousand and were choked in the sea.
14 And they that fed the swine fled, and told it in the city, and in the country. And they went out to see what it was that was done.
15 And they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with the devil, and had the legion, sitting, and clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid.
16 And they that saw it told them how it befell to him that was possessed with the devil, and also concerning the swine.
17 And they began to pray him to depart out of their coasts.
18 And when he was come into the ship, he that had been possessed with the devil prayed him that he might be with him.
19 Howbeit Jesus suffered him not, but saith unto him, Go home to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and hath had compassion on thee.
20 And he departed, and began to publish in Decapolis how great things Jesus had done for him: and all men did marvel.

How can people expect to preach, testify to an Almighty God and Creator of the Universe, but they don't have enough Faith towards that same God that God is not able to reveal Himself through God's Works like Healing, Miracles, things that make you say that can only be of/from God?

If someone had no real experience witnessing the Power of God, how can that person be a credible Witness for God? Basically, you are getting hot air but still taught to pay your 10% to a God that is ineffective. And that is why the term for such Denominations and Preaching/Teaching has become "the DEAD in Christ shall rise first." Because that Atmosphere is literally Spiritually Dead.

you can't believe one part of the Bible and deny another part

imagine how much more staying power his words had because of what the people saw him accomplish he raised the dead drove our demons walked on water commanded the wind and sea and it obeyed him and there were witnesses who saw

those were mostly put to death because they refused to deny his truth what I’m saying is miracles re another true witness and a powerful one of the gospel and who Jesus really is

I guess I’m speaking from here

So we have Christ who first preached the gospel , the apostles and disciples who heard and saw him and then another witness also was the miracles and still is a witness of Christ and the power of his name

“Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.

For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward; How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord,

and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;

God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?”
‭‭Hebrews‬ ‭2:1-4‬ ‭

imagine a witness of Gods glory and how powerful it would impact us if we watched a dead man be raised to life by his word alone

all of it comes down to a witness that Christs word is salvation and will never change or be left void or without the effect of salvstion which he promised

If someone had no real experience witnessing the Power of God, how can that person be a credible Witness for God?

The question isn't whether someone's a credible witness for God or not. The question is: Is God credible? Can He reveal the truth by the Spirit in the preaching of Christ and Him crucified? Or is the simple truth insufficient? Are miracles also necessary?

There's no record of miracles being performed when the Etheopian eunuch believed. God revealed the truth to him through Philip's explanation of the scriptures. Did the eunuch receive an insufficient gospel? Was his belief and baptism in vain?