From Huston Smith’s ‘The World’s Religions’ chapter on Christianity – pg 323
“The Gospel accounts, written by members of the early Church, vibrate with wonder at his performances. Their pages… teem with miracles. We have seen that these impressed multitudes , but it would be a mistake to place our emphasis there. For one thing, Jesus did not emphasize his miracles. He never used them as devices to strong-arm people into believing him.”
It’s interesting, right, that in the world’s most popular religion we have this dichotomy? Here we have a God who chooses to demonstrate its power through control and manipulation of the material world (water to wine, curing the blind, etc.) when the very ‘salvation’ it teaches has little to do with creating dominion or control over earthly things.