Okay, all kidding aside ...my purpose is not to joke about faith, but to better define it. And like I said before, I do believe in miracles and healing.

Yet, when I look to guidelines as to how things happen ...perhaps you'd say, "But we're talking about faith, and faith is about God, and with God all things are possible."

That is all true ...as well as saying, that at different times God works differently.  Yet still, I like to look at how Jesus did things while He walked the earth.  Yes, it's true that we are not to do things exactly as Jesus did them ...as we are not equal to Him, nor is our purpose.  So, we should look to what He would have us do ...or more accurately, what He had His disciples to do.

And I see neither Jesus, nor His disciples going about like part of a 'medicine show'.  The healings seemed more as pointing to the genuineness of the healer, not for the healing itself, but for the message that was the main purpose of Jesus or any of His disciples entering into any particular area.

And it seems to me that we can simply point to the genuineness of the Bible ...not pretending we are more genuine than it is.