Can anyone provide tangible, verifiable, or substantive evidence that 'jesus' ever performed a 'miracle'?

Louis, that's a no brainer. What about all those images of Jesus in burnt toast, tree truncks and stained walls and not to mention.......better not..... C'c'come on it's miraculous, how does he do that?

Sily question. At the time Jesus was supposedly performing the miracules, the method of having substantive evidence was word of mouth. Now it is known from independent sources that Jesus did have followers. The timing of writing down the stories is problematic for a few reasons.

1.) It was 2000 years ago. What we have written down is what survived. The same is the case with fossil records. Most paleotologists believe that neaderthal man and Cromagnon man were not as smart as us, but interestingly enough they had on average large brain cavities. Now of course the brain tissue in the fossils are all gone, so it would be nearly impossible to make this determination. Time tends to kill evidence.

2.) What was written down is argued to be <20 years to 100 years after the death of Jesus. Now if no miracules (or magic tricks if you don't believe Jesus performed miracules) were performed, it was within 20 years, yet these writings proclaimed they were, there were likely enough people still alive to refute the claim and Christianity would have died out. If it was 100 years, then it would have been passed by either oral tradition or by other writings.

Given Jesus status, the timing of the event and the culture of the time, it is quite clear that if Jesus had performed miracules, what we see now is exactly what we should expect to see. However, the same could be said if Jesus just performed magic tricks.

Now if Jesus performed no miracules at all, we may see the same things, but there are otehr things that we should see. The oral tradition of their time was such that while some exagerration may occur, the complete adding of miracules would be odd. Realize that their oral tradition was such that some of the oldest texts match with what the later written down oral tradition said.

Now we are talking about the justification of a religion, so it is certainly possible that some would be willing to infer miracules that did not occur, simply for the purpose of gathering supporters. This becomes a little problematic as Muhammed was able to start an entire large religion without any miracles performed, and that the early church was persecuted, begging the question of whether people would be willing to die for a lie.

I think the evidence point to saying that Jesus at least performed magic tricks, but anything 2000 years ago is far from certain.

The Jews of that time never denied the miracles their issue was they didn't believe that Jesus did them in the power of God. Again the testimonies of those present were sufficient evidence. After Christ's death, burial and resurrection things changed, His position as Lord had been established now it became an issue of faith, belief that He did what was said about Him and therefore is who He says He is. Good question, Thanks for asking.

Though I would not go so far as to say that he turned water into wine or that he walked on water, I can say that he did perform what many ignorant people would call miracles. But what the ignorant call "miracles", I call the ability to consciously manifest all that I want in my life. Including the ability to be safe by causing a healing in those around me. Those that I heal can choose to reject the healing when they are out of my presence, but that is their choice.

Fear Not is a POWERFUL idea. Those who fear can be victimized. Those who do not fear cannot be victimized.

check out the research done into what is called the Unified Field of Consciousness. Thoughts, it turns out, are powerful THINGS that we used to create our realities.

Jesus was not a christian. He was a Panentheist. He said that you are god and he is god and we are god. He said that the kingdom of heaven (unified field) is within (consciousness). Beliefs (thought constructs) form the fabric of our realities/reality. Easily provable.

Does it really matter?

The miracles that are written about were physical representations of the spiritual miracles that are to take place within us, as Jesus told his own apostles that they would do greater things than these.

Q: What is greater than healing physical blindness?

A: healing spiritual blindness.

Im sure bible verses are heading your way. Christians dont know the definition to evidence.

For that reason I don't think Christians should serve on any jury, anywhere in the world

That would make faith meaningless. And since man's entire concept of God is based on faith...

What you're doing is like asking for a book of myths written 2500 years ago about the Big Bang.

combining those scientific words with "miracle" in the same sentence = just doesnt work.

No.