“The Kohen who purifies shall place the person being purified along with them before HASHEM at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. (Leviticus 14:11)”
When the metzora is healed by HASHEM, he goes through an intricate ritual with the Kohen to purify himself before reentering the camp. This verse is cited by many Christians in an attempt to draw a connection between the Kohen and their human deity, whom they believe replaces the Kohen. In the Christian Bible, alleged miracles of healing sick people are recorded in order to prove Christian doctrine. The Christian Bible insists that miracles adequately prove their claims.
“[he] answered, "I did tell you, but you do not believe. The miracles I do in my Father's name speak for me. (John 10:25)”
“But if I do it, even though you do not believe me, believe the miracles, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me, and I in the Father. (John 10:38)”
“Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the miracles themselves. (John 14:11)”
“Men of Israel , listen to this: [Christian deity] of Nazareth
“The things that mark an apostle—signs, wonders and miracles—were done among you with great perseverance. (2 Corinthians 12:12)”
“Does G-d give you his Spirit and work miracles among you because you observe the law, or because you believe what you heard? (Galatians 3:5)”
An interesting warning is provided by HASHEM when He gave the Law to the Jewish people. He warns that witnessing miracles, wonders, and signs alone are not adequate to determine a prophet’s credibility. The prophet’s message has to line up with what is in the Torah. Since Christianity introduces a god previously unknown, negates the Torah by calling it obsolete, aging and soon to disappear and by declaring all foods clean, its message does not satisfy the requirements outlined by HASHEM.
"The entire word that I command you, that shall you observe to do; you shall not add to it and you shall not subtract from it. If there should stand up in your midst a prophet or a dreamer of a dream and he will produce to you a sign or a wonder, and the sign or the wonder comes about, of which he spoke to you, saying, “Let us follow gods of others that you did not know and we shall worship them!” – do not hearken to the words of that prophet or to that dreamer of a dream, for HASHEM your G-d, is testing you to know whether you love HASHEM, your G-d, with all your heart and with all your soul. HASHEM, your G-d, shall you follow and Him shall you fear; His commandments shall you observe and to His voice shall you hearken; Him shall you serve and to Him shall you cleave. And that prophet and that dreamer of a dream shall be put to death, for he had spoken perversion against HASHEM, your G-d – Who takes you out of the land of Egypt, and Who redeems you from the house of slavery – to make you stray from the path on which HASHEM, your G-d, has commanded you to go; and you shall destroy the evil from your midst. (Deuteronomy 13:1-5)”
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