Argument: “Miracles are to confirm messages from God. Jesus is the final message. Signs already confirmed Him. No more messages are being revealed. Thus, there are no more miracles.”

From childhood to non-Christians, workplace and church, this has to be one of the dumbest things I have ever heard.

For sake of argument, let us says sign gifts have ceased. So what? What logical relevance does that have to do with healing and miracles on demand of faith. It has no connection whatsoever.

This is part of the informal fallacies relating to division and composition. Just because something is true of a part, does not mean it is true of the whole.

Jesus healed the lady bent over for 18 years saying it was “necessary” because “she was a daughter of Abraham.” Jesus’ statement means healing miracles are part of Abrahams’ blessing guaranteed to his descents of faith. Jesus says this healing is not about confirming a message but about being faithful to an old promise of favor and blessings. Two different categories. Jesus’ word to the gentile woman, “to take the children’s bread,” shows Jesus saw healing as part of Abraham’s blessing to be freely given away, and not to confirm a message. Paul argues something similar in Galatians 3 saying this blessing includes miracles and the Spirit. Thus, even after the advent of the gospel, Paul says the blessing of Abraham is still in full force, which includes the Spirit (most likely the Baptism of the Spirit) and miracles. Even the cross of Jesus did not replace this promise but only made it available to gentiles. Paul speaks of miracles in Galatians 3 as if they are a common thing. Thus, common miracles are based on Abraham’s blessings secured by Jesus’ atonement. This means even if sign gifts have stopped and even if the gifts mentioned in by Paul in 1 Corinthians 12-14 have stopped, the point is logically non-relevant against saying miracles are a common experience, because God being faithful to His promise to Abraham still stands. God has not ceased in fulfilling His promise to Abraham.

The only way for miracles to stop being a common experience to Christians is if God ceases His promise to Abraham. Jesus also says in John 14 that whosoever believes in Him will do His miracles by faith, and even greater. Jesus makes such miracles in this passage about common discipleship faith, not gifts and not signs. In this passage Jesus says, “by asking anything and getting it,” gives us joy and greatly glorifies the Father. Jesus also mirrors the same extreme faith teaching in places like Matthew 21:21. The signs gifts have no logical relevance to this. None.

Dinosaurs were animals.
Dinosaurs have ceased,
therefore, animals have ceased.

People would never be so shameful or careless in normal speak to say something so irrational; and yet, they will with play such games with God’s word. When a person handles God’s word so demonically, it becomes an autobiographic mirror of their hearts.