mlqurgw said:
Nonsense. Because they viewed them as signs doesn't mean that is why He did them. Add the fact that most, if not all but the twelve, left Him in John 6 should tell us that the things Christ did didn't convince very well. You have not shown where Christ worked miracles as signs.
"This, the first of his miraculous
signs, Jesus performed at Cana in Galilee. He thus revealed his glory, and his disciples put their faith in him." - John 2:11
"Now while he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many people saw the miraculous
signs he was doing and believed in his name." - John 2:23
There were many people who believed in Jesus here because of his signs.
"He came to Jesus at night and said, "Rabbi, we know you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the miraculous
signs you are doing if God were not with him." - John 3:2
Jesus' signs demonstrated that he was from God. Here Nicodemus, a Pharisee, is convinced by them.
"Unless you people see miraculous
signs and wonders," Jesus told him, "you will never believe." - John 4:48
Maybe this reveals Jesus' intent for his miracles. He wants people to believe and knows that they won't if he doesn't do them.
"This was the second miraculous
sign that Jesus performed, having come from Judea to Galilee." - John 4:54
"and a great crowd of people followed him because they saw the miraculous
signs he had performed on the sick." - John 6:2
After the people saw the miraculous
sign that Jesus did, they began to say, "Surely this is the Prophet who is to come into the world." - John 6:14
And to sum up the purpose of Jesus signs:
"Jesus did many other miraculous
signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not recorded in this book. But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name." - John 20:30 - 31
The reason John was guided by the Holy Spirit to write down all Jesus' miraculous signs is laid out here - that we may believe.
Maybe I've taken all these verses in the wrong way, but you're going to have to come up with something a lot better than pure speculation if you want your argument to be convincing.